The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-21
DINING IN NEW YORK.
r1FR AND CUSTOMS IN GOTHAM
RESTAURANTS


1,a1,sn Restsursnt-A French Table
d,Hote-Dlfferent Types at Table-A
D,r,er on the Bowsry-rhe News
rov,a Happy Msal-The sscret of a
Hsnpy Hometown to Make a Man
Love You-The Right Way IN Things
in Everyday Life.
(CopUioht)
Nvw YORK, Aug. 2O.-There is probably
,o.biny in New York quite as curious as
tob,a d'bote dinner. You can have it after
tbe American style, after the Italian
eonrish after the French politeness, after
4 the German hartiness, or, most amusing OF
\ oil m the Bowery. Prices vary. So do
customers. At great many of the first
GLASS places somebody has let the cook go
ont for the evening. and an entire family,
including a small boy. are dining there.
UNDER THE AMERICAN ooLoRs.
This Is apt to be at the American place
Tho walters have whiskers, and the napkins
ara damp. and the Lord is the maker of us
oil Tho dinner is clean, but the idea of the
s waiter is to get through with you as fast as
& possible, for he is looking for the next tip.
4 His intention is to fire your food down you,
q
would be glad il he would take bis time,
n he'll wilt and retire behind palm lsaf fan.
y The dinner is tolerably good. 1t is apt to
a consist of clans, consomme, in which you
a throw the olive stones, il you have some
4 consideration for the next dinner fish very
q plainly cooked, a roast Of some sort, maybe
q bird, bit of mutton, or that standby,
q roast beef and salad; then asweet usually
4 ice-cream, and cup of coffee. IL you are
nj O1nElamanlY waitAF
4 % cents for his tip; if there are two of you,
A he expects so cents; and if there are three,
and you have the moral courage to present
him with 25 cents, he looks at you, more In
sorrow than In anger, but has an immense
amount Of respect for you.
IMAM ITALIAN RESTAURANT.
From the minute you enter the italian
restaurant you feel that you have left New
YORK, and you wish that proprietor would
not bow to you in such loving manner, as
you have never seen him before and it may
make trouble at home. American husbands
do not realize that his manners are the same
TO every woman who comes in. The dinner
is good, out greasy. SO Is the waiter. Il
charms you to see him wipe his fevered
brow with a napkin, which he after ard
uses to polish the plate of your lord and
master. For dinner there is a choice of
soup, fish, that has an unplessantly greasy
bread or may be india rubber, but it tastes
good. Then there is a bird, which you
think you recognize as a spar
row which you have been in
che habit Of meeting In the park in the
afternoon. Your and his Intentions were
perfectly honorable, but you never thought
you would eat him up; with him is a thor
oughly good salad well dressed, and IL you
are inclined to be sentimental, you can
think it's sort of floral tribute to your
dead lover. Then come ided cream and
cheese, and nuts and raiIins, and coffee, and
the small boy close at your side who has
had glass Of water colored with red Ital-
Ian wine says TO you: Mother, when the
man gives 50 much for the money, how eau
be make anything" You don't know and
you tell the small boy, who is the idol of
your heart to ask his father but his father
seems equally In the dark. And from that
day on the small boys opinion of his fathers
knowledge is very limited.
FRENCH TABLE D'HoTE.
There ere just you two; you and some
body you are fond of; maybe it's your
sweetheart, maybe its your husband,
for there are dear, sweet women
VINO love their husbands; and you go OFF to
have dinner at tho French table d'hote.
There is great, big dining room inside
tnat IS hot and stuffy, but outside in the
4 garden are lovely little tables, and the gar
den itself is decorated with growing plants;
ana, II by chance there should be few
drops OF rain, there is great. big awning
e that will come down and keep Ii from
touching you. Among the people you find
a combination Of swells and Bohemians
There is an artist with pointed Vandyke
beard, who has just gotten back from Paris,
and who is telling of the years Of hard
study that he gave to his work;
There is young fellow in even
ing clothes who is complaining to his COM
rade how difficult 1t is to lead the cotilliou.
Just one side of me is the junior partner OF
large dry goods shop, and with him Is
glrl VINO is as lovely as any wax baby you
"a ever bought Her gown is pretty, but sim
PIE; but on one of her fingers shine two or
.aree handsome diamond rings. She looks
up 70 this man as dog does to his master;
sue uoesne dare to have her choice In dishes
Du1 takes what he orders, and as he grows
iinOre genial with his dinner she ventures to
laugh at what he considers is funny. She
o o1y n. i am glad they gave me my day off
~ thursday; like it better than Wednes-
LAY And my lord, putting at huge cigar,
eS 80 ~ yes; l attend to that After
n '"a' DON'T doubt their position. She is
PRETTY SHOP GIRL.
ana she knows that unless the very doubt
Iu ;lI attention given her are accepted, she
~ni loose her position, which means her
Sreso and butter. Back OF me Is a diguified
tSaQy, who stands in the zone hundred and
NY and who is as merry as the proverbial
KY as she chats with the men who have
b poel On her husbands yacht. At my right
uana are some newspaper men; they eat
SWer dinner and enjoy it, and when 1t is
81 over each man pays his own share and
Aeg tr that he is perfectly independent.
TL Aue mead waiter glories in a mustache.
lug lug rest OF them are smooth-fRced and
S.oau looking, but without exception they
oie poIse. A chair is gotten for a small
s-lI aud she Is lifted up to 1t In such a low
k way that she insists upon kissing the
ulveF' While l, who have a weakness for
s.eeeu waInuts, have them brought TO me
humanity, or else the waiter says with q
ootiIo"Iul air, "Ah, madam, / am so
sIroFel that YOU did not get that part Of
5 oul ulnner which you hest like" Ii is a
S1iious place this table d'hote. Two of the
Da,,i- writer's of short stories, Janvier and
Da,Is, have written ii up, and there Is
t!'elLy' happy tone about It all that comes
=. 49, WIN the CLANS and doesn't depart with
erybody laughs, and as merriment is
SoutaSious, there Is nobody 80 sad as not TO
,a,4ected by it, even an old beau, who
a ~ as II he had stepped out of Thack-
80 novels, and who wears his monocle
s, 80 "earied air. has a smile on his face,
s ,iI look that says: "Why isn'k there some
s. .,kht pretty girl dining With mel" You
49,, 80 ~, paper and you are given a French