Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-10-17

Dinner, the great meal of the day, is taken
between 5 and S O'Clock 1t is as good as the
purse Of the diner can afford, and even the
poorer CLASSES have their soup and wine. Din
ners are served at the hotels in table d'h6te
style-that 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, ard all of the guests must be at the
table at this time. Beside each plate there Is
u menu and a wine card giving the prices of
the various wines You order your bottle of
wine OF the waiter, and he charges it in your
bill There is also usually 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 il sometimes comes in with the cheese
The first course at an ordinary table d'h6te
dinner is soup. The walters all enter at the
same time and carry the plates of soup from
without TO 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; then the plates are again
changed, and a delicate composition of spinach
may follow. Then another change Of plates,
and roast beef and potatoes; another change,
and perhaps a delicate PATTY, and so il goes
on for about an hour and a half, making ten
20 twenty changes of plates until you come to
the nuts and cheese and after dinner coffee
There is no coffee or tea drank during the
meal, and the rule is TO drink wine mixed with
water Clarct is the most common drink,
and you get very fair small bottle of this
for fifty cents. At some hotels the prices in
clude wine, but in most the guest orders the
wine be pleases and pays accordingly.
But does not such dinner cause indiges-
ton, and do not the people gorge themselvesi
No. The table dh0te dinner digests better
than that of the American bite and GO style.
and the French Tise from the table with
lighter feelings than either the English or the
Americans. They eat slowly, ani enjoy
every moment Of their dinners, and when
they are done they step jauntily off to the
bouIevards TO smoke and cEat in front of the
numerous cafes.
The bouleyards of Paris are among the
sights of the world With pavements as wide
and smoother than 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. Jewelry, bronzes, silver, pic
lures make a walk along them like a trip
through an international exposition. and
precious stones are sown as thickiy upon the
red velvet of some of their showcases as
though the shop were 4 seed store and the
pearls and diamonds were peas. Along these
boulevaris at night all Paris walks. Cafes
are found at every step, and these have little
tables placed upon the wide 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.
and also, in the case of ladies', raspberry
sirup. The cafe noir, or black coffee, is
always served with little glass of amber
colored cognac randy, not much bigger than
d good sized thimble, and the Frenchman
pours this into the coffee before drinking.
There are many of these boulevards in Paris,
but the gayest of them is the long stretch
from the Madelaine 10 the Bastile, fully three
miles in length. The roadway is nearly sixty
feet wide, and at its sides are rows of trees
Inside of these are sidewalks each thirty feet
~i4is snd aIom0 than is the gay, ever laugh