Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-08-02
WHERE PRIESTS DINE.
A Waiter Says That They DO Not Talk,
g.. But Know How to Eat.

was at my dinner in a 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 tho room of
walters laden with plates and viands.
Each kicked the swinging door to let
himself through, but when the door
was ajar could see nothing beyond
it except a screen. Over. the door was
the word "private." Now and then
sound rs Of one person speaking to
another escaped from the room.
How is it possible" asked myself,
''thnt two men can keep all those wait
ors flying to and fro, or that two men
can cat oil that is going in thereP"
Dinner party in there?" ventured,
to my waiter.
"Yos, big one; feefty persons" said
tho waiter.
"Fifty!" I exclaimed Fifty whatP
Fifty deuf-mutes, or is it q dinner of
sonc queer club whose members have
rulo not to speakP havc heard of
such oddities among the rules of the
clubs Of town"
"No, sarei feefty priests are eating
in there. The priest he never talk
when ho eats the big dinner.'
MOP"
No, sare; the priest he never talk
while-a ho cat. Oh, sare, but the
priest he is tho one man in tho world
which know how TO eat First tho
oysters, and there sit tho feefty or the
seventy or the hundred priest. and no
speak not a word. Thcn the soup and
his spoon go fast. but not-a tho priests
tongue. Then the fish and still not
any talk. Then the roast and then
the this and the that, and all the time
the, different kind of wine md tho
spoons and the knifc and tho fork they
go like sixty, but from the priest not a
word. have wait on one hundred
priests, and all tho time not word,
except perhaps ono says: Good, ch?'
and his neighbor say: 'Finc!' Ah,
that IS what Fca.l knowing how to cat.
% In Your cpurtry." no won't on, for
had started tho waiter upon a topic
dear to his italian soul, "in your
country the pe6plo all talls-a entirely
too much. Who can;.tnsto the soup In
fhe middle of the hno joker Who can
tell-a tho difference between the veni-
son and the partridge if he must
scratch-a his head to make up the
cornfcal story? How can! You drink
the good vino rs you should if you
think what you shall shy to your
ncighbor und make-a the grand laugh?
'Ah, not'so tho priest! Thcro is fcefty
OF him in, thnt-a room, and you do not
hear them cracl-a; tho joke or tell-a
the comic sto y, or fcnco with the
smart word No, tboy are eating and
drinking and 'joying thei"se!ves Ikea
lncn CT common sense which know
what a good dinner is and how 1T
shall be oaten. But wait, my friend.
1T is now. seven o'clock. Wait till it
has boon nine o'clock. :. Then you
shall not ask is it two. men in there?'
You shall thinl>-a the whole town is
there, such laughter and good fun will
como from that room. That will be
over tho cordial and coffee with-a the
good cigar. Thon't tho stomach Is full
and tho dinner is out the way pnd it Is
time to mako-a tho laugh. Wait till
you hear il the priest he does not
know how to cat-a the good dinner. u
hoard from this garru!ou5 waiter
that there aro priests restaurants III
town, that is, oating-placcs that the
priests favor. Ono of thom Is fa-
rnous Spanish place fur downtown.
judged that their custom Is not partic-
ularly profitable, since they mainly
cat Ut their parsonngcs or whatever
their homes arc called, aud only mp
pcGr elsewhere on peculiar occasions
when thoy. descend in great bodies
upon tioin favorito restaurant, md
demand that every thing shall be de-
liciously cooked and Of tho best. m.
7. Coz. Providenco Journal.