Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-08-25
in new YORK RESTAURANTS
Life and Customs in the
Dining Places Of Gotham.
DIFFERENT TYPES AT TABLES
Where Wlaiskered Walters
and Damp Napkins Rule.

as Though He We're in italy--A French
Table d'Hote aud II Bowery Hash House
--Good Dinners the Secret Of Happy
Home.
Special GnrrespondouceO Gazette and journal
New YORK, Aug lg-rhcre is probably
nothing in New York quite as curious as n
table Ghote dinner. You can have it
after the American style. after the Italian
flourish, after the French politencss, after
the German heartiness, or, most amusing
Of all. on the Bowcry. Prices vary. So do
customers. At u great many Of the first.
class places somebody has let the cook 20
out for the evening, and mn entire family,
including a small boy are dining there.
Under THE AMERICAN coLoEs
This is apt 10 be at the American place.
The walters have Whisllers, and the nap
kins are damp, and the lord is the maker
Of us all Tho dinner is clean. but the
idea Of the waiter is to get through with
You as fast AS possible for he is lookng
for the next tir. Ills intention is to fire
your food down you, but at very positive
suggestion that you would he glad if he
would take his time, he'll wilt aud retire
behind palm leaf fan. The dinner is
tolerably good. II is apt to consist of
CLAIMS, conSommc, in which you throw the
olive stones, if You have some Consdera
ton for the next diner, fish very plninly
cooked, 4 roast of some sort maybe Il bird,
bit OF mutton, or that standby. roast
beef. and a salad; then sweet, usually ice
cream and a cup of coffee. Ii you are
alone, the gentlenanly waiter expects
quarter Tor his tip if there are two of you,
he expects ~ cents, and If there are three
and you have the moral courage topreseht
him with quarter, he looks at you, more
IN sorrow than in anger, but has an i'm
mense amount of respect for you
IL AN 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 Il loving manner,
rs 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 ever woman who comes in.
The dinner is good, but greasy. So is the
waiter. 1t charms you to see him wiping
his fevcred brow with 4 napkin, which he
afterward uses to polish the plate Of your
lord and master. For dinner there is a
choice of soup Il fish that has an unpleaS-
ant greasy gravy over it, an entree that
may be sweetDread or may be india rub
Der, but il tastes good. Then there is
bird, which You think You secognizc as q
sparrow which you have been III the habit
Of meeting in the park i'll the afternoon.
Your and his intentions were perfectly
honorable, but you never thought you
would eat him up; with him is Il thor
onghly good salad well dressed, and il you
are inclined TO be sentimental, you can
think its sort of floral tribute to your
dead lover. Then come iced cream and
cheese, and nuts and raisins, and coffee,
and the small boy close at your side who
has had n glass of water colored with red
Italian wine says to you: Mother, when
the man gives so much for the money,
how can he 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'HorE.
There are just you two; you and some
body yon are fond of; maybe it's your
sweetheart; maybe it's your husband, for
there are dear, sweet women who love
their husbands; and You go off to have
dinner at the French table d'hote. There
is q great, big dining-room inside that is
hot and stuffy; but outside in the garden
are lovely little tables, and the garden it.
self is decorated with growing plants; and
if by any chance there should be a few
drops of rain, there is q great big awning
that will come down and keep it from
touching you. Among the people you find
q combination of swells and Buhemians
There is an artist with a pointed Nandyke
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 a
young fellow IN evening clothes who is
complaining to his comrade how difficult
it is to lead the cotllinn. just on one side
of me Is the junior partner of q large dry
goods shop, and with him is girl who is
as lovely as any wax baby you ever bought.
Hcr gown is pretty, but simple; but on
one Of her fingers shine two or three hand
some diamond rings. She looks ~ to this
man US u dog does to his master, she
doesn't dare have her choice in dishes but
takes what he orders, and as he grows
more genial with his dinner She ventures
to laugh ut what he considers is.funny. She
says II am glad they gave me my day
off on Thursday; | like il better than Wed
nesday." And my lord, putting huge
cigar, says "Oh yes | attended 10 that"
After that | don't doubt their position.
Shells
PRETTY sHor GIRL.
and she knows that unless the very doubt
full attentions given her are accepted, She
will lose her POSITION which means her
bread and butter. Back of me is Il digni-
fled lady, who stands in the "une hundred
and fifty and who is us merry us the
proyerbial grig as she chats with the men
who have been on her husbands Yacht
At my right hand are some newspaper
men; they eat their dinner and enjoy it.,
and when il is all over each man pays his
own share and feels that he is perfectly
independent.
The head waiter glnries in moustache
The rest OF them are smODth-fuced and
clcan-lnoking, but without exception, they
are polite. a chair is gotten for small
girl and she is lifted up to lit in such q low
Ing way that she insists upon kissing the
I,
green walnuts, have them brought to me
jubiantly, or else tie waiter says with II
sorrowful air, "Ah, madam. am so
Gritvcd that you do not get that part of
your dinner which YOU best like" II isl
curious place, this table d'hotc. Two of
the best writers Of short stories, ,lanvicr
and Davis, have written it up, and there is
Il merry happy tone about il all that comes
in with the CLANS and doesn't depart with
the coffee.
Everybody laughs, and as merrimcnt is
contagious, there is nobudy So sad as not
IN be affected by it, even an old beau, who
looks as If he had stepped ont Of Thackc-
rays novels aud who wears his monocle
With wcaricl air, has q smile on his face,
and look that says: HWhy, isn't there
some bright pretty girl dining with mc?'
Aor ask for paper, and you are given
French one. But all around, though tbcre
are artists, writers, actors, representatives
uf the creme de In creme, you hear tue
English word being spoken with the
french one intcrarded, and you have NJ
last found the one place in New York that
is really cosmopolitan.
a DINNER az THE rowERY.
But suppose Won don't want to 20 there;
suppose YOU are Il larky crowd and think
yoll will have your dinner on the liowcry.
It is outdoors, too; but there is no high
fence to protect you from the lockers On.
You stand up at i bar; You can have most
anything you want. II isn't bad bowl
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