ABSTRACT
Supper on every day in the week would be a mistake; but on one in seven it may well be commended, especially when the month is June. Nor do the advantages of the occasional supper end here. It is excellent excuse for the ice-cold banquet which in the warm summer time has its own immeasurable virtues. A supper should be cold; else it deteriorates into mere sham dinner. Never do cold dishes seem more delicious than when cruel thermometer is at fever heat. But supper does not mean, necessarily, veal and ham pie, above which British imagination dares not soar. Tender spring chickens may then give greeting to the summer-time. Lukewarm supper would be as detestable as a lukewarm dinner. With the innocent chickens, a green salad will be as appropriate as edelweiss on Alpine slopes. A second curve emphasizes the grace of the first, so strawberries at supper carry out with great elegance the strawberry scheme of afternoon tea.
