The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-08-15
The Watering Places.

OCEAN HoysE, NEWPORT, Il. l. August 8, 1916
Life in the (" Ocean'-A Tall Dinner.
believe every writer of modern love tales, has
essayed to paint the shifting scenes of ball room.
1t has been, since I recollect, and believe since
my grand-mother's recollections, a fruitful theme
for scrbblers of the love-sck. On such occasions
the heart is supposed to be soft and waxy, and in
capable OF presenting any conside rable resistance
to the honeyed arrows of the god. Why is il
that none OF the heroes or herones are ever repre-
sented as falling in love over good dinner I? why
not tits that eating is considered anti romantic.
Nonsense. We have seen sly looks from behind
a smoking sirloin, and burning glances over a
plate of roast beef, that would utterly annihilate
such theory and for our own part, we make
more love during dinner than at any other hour
in the day 1t cannot be helped, for the uncon-
site lovely creature, whose alabaster arm and
tiny fingers, gracefully playing with silver fork,
would call forth the admiration of an anchorite.
How can you help looking up-you must speak
to the waters-and your gaze at last meets that of
a pair of ebony eyes burning like basilisk's.
You bashfully cast your eyes down, and after this
sudden but sweet encounter, you are for mo-
ment " put out" by the close proximity OF so
much beau'y-you inwardly wish that your
" fankers" and " fronters'' were men instead,
and if you have not good deal of nerve, you lose
the enjoyment of your dinner. This gducherie
however, soon wears away, and you are enabled
to eat heartily-Q am) seated opposite the type
of Venus, herself
Was that the second gong %
A waiter" Yes, SIR"
You enter a large saloon-three parallel tables
chairs for four hundred diners. You are shown
to a seatwhere you find a card on the rim of your
wine-glass, with your name on it. Be seated.
Diners enter in groups, in families, and some of
them alone, as solitary bachelors. Mob and snob
push in together. The latter Is the more nume-
rous class. They are not all nobs who rich
and ape the fashions. Look around and see Tor
yourself A fashionable lady has entered with
her party. Her very gait denotes snobism she
desires distinction even in dining room. Ha I!
the waiter has not seats for all her party they
must go lower down. 1t was her fault-"No, no,
sir, your fault" she pettishy tells the waiter.
a" / will put up with it - and instead OF grace
fully giving way, she should do, for her own
sake, she tosses her head sngrIIy about, scolding
the innocent waiter until after having made her
self emnenty ridiculous, she is Obliged TO sub
NIT and with mortified air proceed TO the low
er end Of the table. This is a specimen of aristo-
cratic snobbishness that may be witnessed every
day.
A genuine snob, however, of the true snob
breed-a single NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. into chair,
the first he can seize hold of, and in an instant
commences devouring his "hasty plate of soup."
He is touched on the shoulder by waiter, who
informs him that ''this is Mr. AS seat" He starts
looks at first confused, then savage--thinks the
waiter means to insult him. Goes on with his
soup but being again admonished, rises, with n
furious glance at the waiter, and amidst the un-
pleasant notorety he has managed to create for
himself, passes on, down, down, down. Afer