The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-07-22
NEW YORK GOSSIP.
Luxurious Restaurants--NIusic at Meals.
The Brummeu WRistcoat.
Ioopyrlght 1871, BY The United pross.l
A NEW FAD.

NEW FAD.
You can get a table-d'-hote dinner In this
city for twenty-five cents or you can go TO
Delmonico's aud expend fifty dollars on a
Lucullan feast. Between these extremes
many courses are open to you in eonnec-
ton with the satisfaction of your palate.
II you are fairly well-lixed financially you
can dine every night in splendid manner
impossible ten years ago TO u millionaire.
The evolution OF the modern New York
restaurant has been exceedingly rapid.
While the cookery OF decade back was
as good as to-day's. the surroundings OF
the metropolitan who dimes at one of the
better class of restaurants are yearly be-
coming more luxurious. Some of the new
hotels have cafes that are worthy of q
royal palace. But perhaps ono Of tho
most striking of the new features that
pertain to restaurant and hotel life In
New York, Is the orchestral music that
adds its delights to the pleasures served
up by the chef. You eat your dinner to
the soft tones OF sonata from Chopin or
weird strain from Wagner. Perhaps
your oysters and soup are literally waltzed
down your throat. Possibly a gavotte
makes your fish easier to swallow, while
mazourka adds festive flavor to your
roast and salad. You sip your coffee and
liqueur to the dreamy measures OF O noe
turne. Around you are pleasure loving
men and women who are multiplied hum
dred-fold by countless mirrors that make
the room look like an enormous banquet
hall ten times its actual size.
HARKINd BACK.
The revival OF an ancient fashion some-
times has an accidental origin. l do not
suppose that Clyde Fitch and Richard
Mansfield had any intentions of aiding the
tailors when they began their dramatic
renaissance of antique dudedom. But the
genius that Beau Brummell gave express
sion toin his waistcoats has had marked
effect upon the impresslonable American
swell Some OF the BrummelI waistcoats
now to be seen on Broadway and Fifth
avenue are absolutely startling in their
effects. Perhaps the Brummell hat and
cane and snuff-box will be revived by the
ieunesse doree of this city. The great
Beaus habit Of leaving his debts unpaid
has long been affected by the New York
dude.
NEW SYSTEM.
What has become OF the home life OF
New York? II exists somewhere, but you
can not find it on the surface. When say
home life / mean the hearthstone exist
enee that pertains to middle class life In
other American cities. People who are
able to occupy pleasant houses in smaller
places and beget that family seelusiveness
that Is essential to the highest form OF
home life would find that In the metropo-
lis as circumstances now prevail they
would have the world too much with them.
Hotels, flats, apartments, restaurants
They war against the hearthstone. Then
again, this is prominently o city Of clubs.
Almost every man reasonably well Off Is
member OF at least one or two clubs. It Is
generally accepted theory that to be q
-elubbnbio man 10 to ones advantage In
business or profession. In no city In the
world does this idea seem to have SO
marked an effect upon the home life as
In New York. Men who can not af-
ford to own house still seem to feel
that 1t is good policy" to belong to
several clubs. Then again. tho exigencies
OF life In the metropolis scarcely tend
toward the development of the wife and
mother on the older American models.
Even the woman who belongs to no
fashionable set is surrounded by certain
atmosphere, an indeflnable but all-pervad-
ing influence that must have marked eff
feet upon her life and character. She
would, unless she is an exception, prefer TO
be leader among the Four Hundred than
to rear family OF sturdy American boys
and girls. She can not be a society queen
and she refuses to be o mother. What
does she do2 She goes to the theatre with
her husband, filrts with his friends, reads
novels, goes a-shopping, strolls on the ave-
nues, attends church, fondles small
white, bull-terrier. and watches her face
and hair closely TO see how time Is dealing
with her.