Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-31

only lew lazy rOWerS IN ouirlSSeIS, an
occasional four or eight-oared club, not too
many spooning couples gazing at each
other in light wherries, and sundry old
gentlemen in as many punts, placidly fish
ing, and catching nothing, with now and
again one or two stately swans lazily, and
with disdainful heads, propelling them
selves, or merely floating outside the reeds
and rushes in the eddies near the shores.
To this well-arranged table, in this
pleasant bay window, the waiter, who
looks like butler gone into business on
his account, brings in, after the oysters, a
pair of soles exqulsitely cooked and with
out break in their Drowned skins. These,
with lemon juice and very little anehovy
sauce, are excellent, and go well with the
chablis. Then this silent treasure of a
servant tables some lamb chops and dish
of green peas, deliciously sweet and ten
der. The chops are en- papillote, and are
enhanced in flavor by dish of tomato
catsup.
They are small, of course, and just whet
the appetite for the capon, done to turn,
which follows them, and to which the cos
lettuce-all hearts excellent company.
Then jam tart, sach as only English
people know how to make, acts as pre-
lude to the Stilton cheese, the crisp bis
cult and the fresh butter. A claret-say
Saint Emilon-is the only wine added to
the chablis, and in that case the little
portion of cognac poured into the coffee
sufices to maintain the glow engendered
by the excellent but simple meal. A
really good cigar can be pulled with de-
light while looking up or down, or up
and then down. or vice versa, that lovely
river, for no matter how or where you
look at it, when once we'll above that
dirty old London, it is thing of beauty
and therefore a JOY forever.
This simple yet magnificent feed has
probably not cost SIS all told, but nowhere
on the globe can it be duplicated at the
price, when the feast of the eyes is added
to that of the palate Of course, grander,
more imposing and really more beauti-
fully colossal view can be had on our own
Hudson above the Palisades, but then the
Drowned soles, the well-mannered butler
waiter, would have to be dispensed with,
and there would be no old gentlemen
fishing from punts and not swan within
sight. Moreover, ffty-dollar bill would
look remarkably small when all expenses
were paid.
An excellent little dinner can be enjoyed
at a small place, half cabaret, half restau-
rant, at the end of the long walk in the
Versailles grounds, and, as it is not far
from that toy palace, the Little Trianon,
it is worth visit. The special features of
French out-of-town and out -of-the-way
dining places are the common wine and the
strawberries. The latter, although small,
are delicious.
OF course in these imaginative repasts
much depends upon who is your opposite
neighbor in the window commanding the
lovely view have spoken of, If the diner
is young enough, or old enough to make
love, then it is easy to know the sex, and
almost the appearance of his opposite
neighbor. If he has gone beyond spoon
ing most likely his dear wife sits facing
HIM. and if he is bachelor without being
misanthropical, he will have trusty and
intelligent fellow into whose eyes he can look
with kindness, and from whose lips he will
hear words worth listening to.
In the world of Bohemia and London
there is not much "chumming," but there
is a certain amount of close friendships, for
so long as the Bohemian, common, restless
life will permit and two stray men are
generally to be found in those old river
side tavern-hotels, thrown together into
affinity, for the time, by the purest acci-
dent, their friendship lasts just long
enough to be interesting and genuine
then they part with good feeling and most
probably never meet again.
JAMES SCHoNBURG.