Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-16

Pittsburg hasn't developed any special Denter
craze, but Gotham has and what do you sup
pose 1t is? Something very modest and retiring
IN lts nature, yet expensive enough to make its
reign success. There is nothing new or strik
ing about this craze in fact it has already had
several successful seasons and was supposed &c
have made its farewell as a fad last season.
Not so, however With the earliest breath
of spring the yiolets for they constitute the
craze. appeared IN profusion, natural and arti
fetal, on the hat and the muff of the lady,
on the lapel of the geutleman's coat, and on
the bride Of the swell horse IN Central Park.
The members of the human family who affect
the vlolets supplement them with the use OF
The triple extract. also imported OF course.
Whether or not the members of the equine
race have theit glossy coats rubbed down
With the dainty perfume l am not
prepared to say, but II is a fact that several OF
the peStknown teams in New York are sport
ING rosettes of French violets on their brides.
Besides the wearing of the flower and the con-
stant use of the odor, anything that is violet
hued IS in demand, and the too-utterly-too
young man insists upon having the box or
basket which contains the candy for his sweet
heart of the fashionable color, and he does not
wish 10 have it wrapped with paper, but simply
tied with ribbon or gold cord
Apropcs of New York, who that visits the
city at all has not dined at the famous Broad
way cafe. And who has not felt his utter in
significance in the presence of the second head
waiter of the establishment? When his mag
nifeent physique looms upon the visitor in the
rear of the dining room, and with his
kiugly tread he draws near the cash
ier's desk. even the head waiter
is Overshadowed by his immense personality.
The head waiter is really very modest, not a
hit egotistical, or anxious for recognition, with
q very gracious manner. probably compelled to
be humble by the superiority of his assistant,
whose austereness was So forbiddiEg that even
a 1TnpF FAR Gpfr IN . lrh
HIM for information.
And so much wanted to know who he was.
l thought he might be some celebrity who
would be good material for an article (and so
be materially Accordingly l asked my own
quiet little waiter what the pompous mans
name was. He tol me; but as it was French
name, while its bearer looked like an lrishman
and acted like an Englishman, was just as
much in 1he dark as ever regarding his identity
and the altitude OF his political and social posi-
ton.
So / continued questioning the writer in
harmless. innocent thoroughly unsophisti-
Gated neutrality-suspicious. way by saying:
Does Mr. B. own the establishment or just the
majority of the stock?' The way his ewes
twinkled as he answered me with, 20. no Miss,
he is only assistant head waiter" with the en-
phasiS he put on the "only," would have made
Mr.. Assistant Head Waiter wildly furious had
he seen and heard, hut he was too busy i'm
pressing his Importance upon the poor inoffen-
sive guests TO notice the little conversation over
By the window.
By the way 1 always knew human nature
was perverse, but never knew just how far that
perversenesS extended in my own case until the
waiter brought me my dinner that day. Then
realized that Will at a small hotel or board
lng-house l would feel terribly Insulted if
had to eat everything frym one
plate in the style of our forefathers
yet at the fashionable cafe when the waiter
served me first from little silver platter with
the meat and placed on the same plate a spoon
ful OF each of the side dishes had ordered. 1
was perfectly happy and never enjoyed din
ner more in my life. 1t had the seal of fashion
upon 1t and also the seal of silver, as found
when squared accounts, but the experience
and the STUDY of the people was worth all the
silver and time it cost me, without the dinner
even.
To one interested in their fellow creatures il
is one of the most enjoyable pastimes to sit in
cafe in quiet little nook, and watch the
patrons. AS rule, they become natural at
some time during their dinner. no matter how
guarded they may be when first entering. In a
cosmopolitan city. naturally, all countries and
nationalIties are represented. and their very
manner of eating betrays their birth, and 1
might say training. 1t is amusing to contrast
The extreme eastern types and the extreme
western, both ladies and conference.-the rigid
conservatism of the Easterner and
the utter indifference to form
Of the Westerner. the cody critical stare with
which the Eastern belle favors the form and
tace of the Western belle, and the baby-like
stare with which the Western belle returns the
compliment and which means so much. Some
times 1t is varied, and fash of the eve and
curl of the lip betokens a reserve force in the
Westerner that would equal a regular Western
cyclone If opportunity presented, but the Sec
ond head waiter of that particular establish
ment claims all the cyclonic privileges INDUCED
in there. IHORNE BRANCH