Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-22

Dinner, the great meal OF the day is taken
between 8 and s o'clock. lit is as good as the
purse of the diner can afford, and even the
! poorer classes rave their soup and wine. Din
iiers ARE served at the hotels in table d'hote
style-tlat is, each dish is served separately.
and the plates are changed with every course.
In most of the hotels a fixed time is set for
dinner, and NIL of the guests must be at the
table at this time. Beside each plate there is
q menu and a wine card giving the prices of
the various wines. You order your bottle of
wine of the waiter, and he q. &c s1sSeassii.a ~ your
bill. There is also usually a piece of dry bread
beside your plate, and the rule here is to eat
bread at dinner without butter. There is no
butter brought upon the table until dessert,
when, it sometimes comes in with the cheese.
The first course at All ordinary tabs d'h6te
dinner is soup, The walters all enter at the
same time and carry the plates of soup from
withentto the guests at the table. After this
Is eaten the plates are changed, and fish is
passed around by the walters, each person
helping himself; tifan the plates arc again
Changed, and adelieate composition of spinach
may follow, Then another change of plates,
and roast beef and potatoes: another changes.
and perhaps a delicate patty: and so it goes
on for about an hour ard a half, making ten
W tNtiltE NuSSIiSSc VI flattS ullJil you come TO
the nuts and cheese and after dinner coffee.
There is no coffee or tea-a.ank during the
meal, anlthe rule is to drink wine mixed with
water. Ciaret is the most common drink,
and y6us set q very fair small bottle of This
for fifty aents. Arsone hotels the prices in
clade wine, but in most the guest orders the
wine he pleasss and pays accordingly.
But does not such dinner cause indiges-
ton, and do not the people gorge themselvesa
No. The table d'h6te dinner5digests better
than that OF the American bite and 60 style,
and the French rise from the table with
lighter feelings than either the English or the
Americans. They eat slowly, and enjoy
every moment of their dinners, and when
they are done they step jauntily off to the
bouleyay1ls to smoke and chat in front OF the
numerous cafes.
The boulevards of Paris are among the
sights of the world. With pavements as wide
and smoother Khan those of Washington city,
they are lined with brilliantly lighted stores,
the Windows of which are filed with all the
beautiful wares of this city of the ~fanciful
and the gay. Jewolry, bronzes, silver, pic
lures maize n walk along them like a trip
through an International exposition and
precious stones are sown as thickly upon the
red velvet of some of their showcases as
" xAAFM, tnAf-fZ EtILE4NE -
though the Shop were u seed store and the
pearls and diamonds We're peas. Along these
Doulevards at night all Paris walks. Cafes
nre found at every step, and these have little
tables placed upon the vida sidewalk, and at
them hundreds of The gayly dressed throng sit
and chat while they drink black coffee out of
goblets and smoke the mem cigarettes or
cigars. Sometimes wine or liquor is drank,
md also, in the case of ladies, raspberry
sirup. The cafe noir, or black coffee, is
always served with a little glass of amber
esicred cognac trandy, mol much bigger than
o good sized thi.nble, aid the Frenchman
pours this into the coffee before drinking,
There are many of these E,ulevards in Paris.
but the gayest Of them IS tEa long stretch
frora the Madelaine to the Bastile, fully three
miles IN length. The roadway is nearly sixty
feet wida. and ut Its sides nre rows of tree4