The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-01-19
EXTRAORDINARY ENTERTAINMENT

- $1,000 SOA~O-sEL 1NDOL0ES IN A SENsA-
TIoNAL sUPPER-AN AcrREss SERVES As
THE CHIEF DISH OF ATTRACTION.
Inc Paris correspondent OF the st. Louis
Globe writes thus of a rare sight witnessed
in that city: Evening before last, a Rus
| sian colonel - here on a six months
furlough-gave petit soupper at the Cafe
helueri TO dozen of his con-
wives, who had been trying to out
do one another in the elaborsteness of
| such entertainments. He had excited their
curiosity by telling them he would show
them dish they had never seen before
something they could not guess the quality
| OF. Every one of them was present They
| feasted until midnight. when they all grew
impatient concerning the wonderful dish
that had been promised.
RESTRAIN yourselves, gentlemen" the
host said, 81 shall not disappoint Won. The
dish shall be set upon the table within an
hour"
Just as the little clock on the marble man
tel struck /. the door at the end of the room
bearing on their shoulders great covered
silver vessel.
"Whst is this" cried one OF the COM
pany. "Are You to treat US TO a giant
pate?"
'..Do, you expect US TO eat silver?" in
quired another.
''Let us see inside Of your marvellous deli
cacy," Joared third, while two or three
more, flushed with wine, ran to the dish,
and were about to lay hands on it.
BE calm, gentlemen, if yOu please" adj
| monished the colonel. Gall in good time"
The vessel was deposited in the middle
of the table. AT sign from.the host, and
with the words,
"BKHoLD kDTsH PIT FOR TIE eoDsi"
The cover was removed. to the delighted
| amszement Of the jewellers, under it lay,
upon satin cushion. one of the prettiest &C
tresses of the Folies Dramatiques, dressed
well, it is hard to.say how she was dressed,
so nearly was she in state of nature. She
looked beautifully everything that art could
do having been done to heIghten her charms.
She lay so still that she resembled statue,
albeit her lustrous eyes, her cherry red lips,
the undulstion OF her bosom eontradicted
she cold idea of marble.
Several of the young men hurried towar d
her to kiss her. She checked them with
gesture, and extended her hand, which they
caught and carried rapturously 30 their lips.
"Am 1 not right7" asked the Russian. lis
! not this morsel to delight Olympusf Have
you ever bebeld the like beforeH'
They all answered unanimously in the
affirmative, and were crowdiBg about the
| actress their souls in their eyes. when she
said languidly, "The play is ended, gentle
men. Au revoire au revoirP' and, kissing
her hand, the cover was replaced, and the
silver hemisphere was again borne out of
the room.
The feasters, hardly recovered from their
surprise, shot amorOus arrows after 1t,
and would have followed, had not the
hest requested them to fill their glasses
to the animated AmbrOsia OF the night"
The Russian had had the immense silver
dish made especially for the occasion, at a
cost Of $4,000 francs, and had pSid the actress
$4,000 more for sDacting tor one night emily
the role ola dish fit for the goes. The idea
WAS not original, though the colonel may
never have heard of a similar goddess on
plate at St. Petersburgh banquet, a few
years ago, when the Prince of Wales was in
the Muscovi.e capital, aud assisted on the
occasion. In that case the goddess appeared
in the garb of Godivs; in the one am rela-
ting the dish was dressed, though so slightly
that the dressing might easily escape atten-
ton.