The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1889-02-22
WHERE PRIESTS DINE.
4 waiter SAYS That They DO Not Tai
Iiut Know How TO Eat.

Eut Know How To Eat.
was at my dinner In queer res
taurant in an odd corner Of upper New
York the other day, and my attention
was distracted from my food by the
frequent passage through the room Of
walters laden with plates and viands.
Each kicked the swinging door 10 let
himself through, but when the door
was ajur | could see nothing beyond
it except "A screen. Over the door was
the word "privatc." Now and then
n sound a. Of one person speaking TO
another escaped from the room.
'IIow is it possible asked myself,
"that two men can keep all those wait
crs lying 20 and fro, or that two men
can cat all that is going in thcre?'
Dinner party in therc?' ! vcnturcd,
10 my waiter.
"Ycs, big one; fccfty persons" said
'hc waiter.
Fifty! | exclaimed. Fifty what'
Fifty dcaf-mutcs, or is it dinner Of
some queer club whose members have
~ rule not 10 speak? have heard Of
such oddities among the rules OF the
clubs Of town"
"No, saro; fccfty priests are eating
in there. The priest hc never talk
when hc cats the big dinner"
No?'
"No, saro; the priest he mover talk
whilc-a no eat. Oh, sarc, bat the
priest he is the one man in the world
which know how TO cat First tho
oysters, and there sit the fccfty or the
seventy on the hundred priest. and he
speak not word. Then the soup and
his 81 oDn go fast, but not-a the priest S
tongue. Then the fish aud still not
any talk Then tho roast and then
the this aud the that, and all the time
the different kind Of wine and the
spoons and the knife and the fork they
90 like sixty, but from tho priest not n
word. ] have wait on one hundred
priests, and all the time not n word.
except porhap, one says: Good. ehP'
and hi, uoighbor say; 'fineN All,
that is what call knowing how TO eat
I'm your country no went ON, for
! had started the waiter upon IA topic
dear TO his Italian soul, lin your
country the people all talk-a entirely
too much Who can taste the soup in
the middle OF the fine joke? Who can
tcll-a the difference between the veni-
son and tho partridge II he must
IA ] 4.
comical story? How can you drink
the good wine as YOU should il you
think what YOU shall say to your
noighbor ana makc-a the grand laugh?
All, not so the priest There is fccfly
of him in thata room, and YOU do not
hear them cracll-a the joke or tcll-a
the comic story, on foncc with the
smart word No, they are eating and
drinking and 'joying themselves Ikea
men of common sense which know
what "A good dinner Is and how IT.
shall Ice eaten But wait, my friend
II is now seven o'clock. Wait till it
has bccn nine o'clock. Then ycu
shall not ask 'is IL two men in thcreg
You shall thinll-a the whole town is
there, such laughter and good fun will
come from that room. That will be
over the cordial and coffee with-a the
good cigar Then the stomach is full
and the dinner Is out the way end IL is
time 10 mukc-a the laugh. Wait till
you hear IL the priest hc does not
know how to cat-a the good dinner" ="
heard from this garru Gus waiter
that there are priests restaurants in
town, that Is, earthquakes that the
priests favor. Oue of them is a IA
nous Spanish place far downtown.
Judged that their custom il not partic-
ularly profitable. since they mainly
eat at their parsonagcs or whatever
their homes are called, and only ap-
pear elsewhere ON peculiar occasions
when they descend in great bodies
upon their favoritc restaurants and
demand that every thing shall be de-
liciously cooked and of the best N
\. Cor. Providence journal.