The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-06
DINING At RESTAURANTS.
Married Couples Who Make the
Rounds to Vary the Monotony Of
Home Life

/ Married Couples Who Make the
Rounds to Vary the Monotony of
Home Life.
Netg York Letter in the Boston Herald.
! June, the month Of roses and sport in the
/ country, Of dullness and dissolution in
| town, is selected by married couples,
whether the conjugal tie be Of short or of
! long duration, to vary the monotony of
! housekeeping and dinner parties by making
| the rounds Of the restaurants. IL there are
mo encumbrancesn this is all the easier; if,
on the other hand, there is family TO be
| provided for, matters are simpliiied by
/ having a family dinner at the luncheon
/ hour, and, the evening thus made
| free, departing arm in arm
| to dine tete-a-tete. The fash
lonable woman. with a large family, first
packs them off, bag and baggage, nurses
and men servants. to the country. Then,
enancipated, her children by the sea, her
/ horses and carriages in transit, goes In for
a lew days of what she is pleased to call
| 'bohemlanlsm, which, being Interpreted,
| means that she and her lord and master
take hanson instead Of their own car
rage, and dine at a restaurant instead of
seating themselves at the domestic black
walnut board in the linen draped dining
room OF the family mansion. One sees a
| they may be found in demi-season state at
Delmonico's or in out-and-out Bohemian
| ISM IN the French and German restaurants
OF University and Lafayette place.
Delmonlco's IS perhaps too conventional
to suit their taste. They are tired, too, of
the too familiar faces of ll-Uhe-year-around
guess, men who perform the operation
tersely characterized as "wearing out Del
monlcO's chairs.n These habitues. through
] heat hon, T,,lr bol ~
Dicks aud mortar, when the January frost
fringes the elaborate Delmonico jerdinieres
| IN the front yard" with icicles, sit aud eat,
and drink and sit. Ever sitting, drinking,
| eating, for example, is a couple, whose APP
| parent lease Of the restaurant has given
| them metropolitan, not to say q national,
celebrity, the perpetual personages known
as as, the marquis and "the" marquise.
| The marquis aud "then marquise are
neither the De Mores Spanish, nor the Di
Lanzas Qtalianl, but a plump couple, no
longer quite young, whose science in
/ handling a knife aud fork is based on
| models frequently to be encountered in the
restaurants of Paris, but rarely met with
either In London Or New York.
With us, as ii rule, diners-out, and par
ticularly ladies, seldom appear to appreci-
| ats what they are eating. Dish after dish
| IS brought on and hurried away, and unless
there chances to be something the matter
! with particular course, all pass without
! remark. But in the restaurants of Paris
men aud women are apt to "mean business. u
Monsieur has the keen scent of a gourmet
Madame deliberately undoes her bonnet
| springs and prepares to settle down to the
discussing Of each particular deicacy.
Absolute mistress of the gastronomic situa-
ton, the sauces. the salad, the red
| wlne-each must be irreproach-
able. Dishes must be freshly cooked,
the coffee must be made on the
minute, and when the considerable bill is
paid the patrons must feel that they have
had their moneys worth. '"rhen MARQUIS
and the" marquise convey the impression
Of belonging to this type of customer,
although they may be less a connosseur
than they profoundly look For the rest,
they do not, as has been rashly supposed.
eat continuously, but merely use the restau-
rant as Parisians do cafe, sitting long over
their coffee and indulging in claret and a
siphon of seltzer "between meals" They
| do not play dominoes. Apart from that,
they are simply the sort of couple to be
found by the hundreds in Paris, but so rare
and so persistent as to excite comment and
attain a unique position in New York