New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-03-19

been named and there Is sure to he something good
| to eat somewhere among them Besides. 50cent
Italian table dhoe Is no place for fasiIdous people.
OF course that Is not absolutely all You will get.
There Is the bread. in the form Of Srae gly bouquet
kept In tall glass the end Of the table. and Won
can take MS little much OF II you like within
the limits of the supply. You will probably have the
same privilege with the olives. II you are lucky
Won may have Lyons sausage TO begin with, and II
fate Is dead against you yOu may get raw oysters,
but do not be tempted put bold front and re
fuse TO touch them. II You do that the walter viii
get nervous and take them away and lie will serve
you better when he finds that you man who
can afford 10 pay for things and not eat them They
may give YOU wine. II you will so to a 30 cent table
d'hote which includes wine there Is little hope that
you will listen to counsel. yet thus much you may
observe-put water and lee In II. Never mind your
principles look ont for your interests, principles do
hot apply to this wine put them In
The better way-oh, by far the better way lis TO
60 where the cents covers nothing bat the dinner,
and then buy your wine ard pay extra for II. ac-
cordlng 10 the kind YOU hope to get Chanu Is
good kind 10 try at an Italian restaurant. for the
rule Of always drinking the wine OF the country
applies to the traveller among the NcwNork res
taurants Just rs much ms TO The stroller about the
world. Ee,idcs these pretty. narrow neckcd. straw
covered TASKS, II yoa lock nj them rightly and let
their contents gently and peacefully pcrmcatc your
mental system, Will lend poetic flavor to the
meats and the spaghetti which II IS not altogether
unlikely that they may need.
A tale hangs upon this very point. certain
Young artist was IN the habit Of dining with some
Of his friends at particular Italian table dhotc.
and there they drank chant whenever they had
more money 10 spare thpn the price Of the dinner.
The artist liked TO have all sorts OF old pots and
Jugs and bottles knocking and hanging around his
studio and these bottles fascinated him 10 the extent
OF the rupture Of the tenth commandment The
tenth commandment being broken. the eighth was
the next to a., and one night when the dinner WAS
over the artist furtively slid the empty bottle under
his coat aud managed 10 keep his companions be
tween himself and the desk whore the proprietor sat
AS they went cut. Success made him bold and he
accomplished the successive annexation Of three
four more bottles In the way. But at last
planted conscience began 20 assert Itself and he won
dercd ncrvOi>iy how much he was injnrlng Il man
who had so long provided him with dinners at n
really reasonable rate lie accordingly approached
the proprietor gently on the subject OF chantl bot
Ties rs desirable articles OF decoration. and asked
him what he did with empty ones. Do with them ~
the proprietor replied nothing; have n cellar full
OF them that l should be glad to give to anybody
VIM would take them away This illustrates that
SIN among It's other undesirable qualities, Is
times unnet cssaiH
There used to be an Italian restaurant In South
Flrh-ave.-pcrhaps II Is there sl-wherc not only
wine was given With the dinner. but also brandy TO
burn with the conee-not brandy to drink only
brandy 10 burn. Now 10 this restaurant one night
or to some other-the exact place does not natter
came young man from Vermont to dine. Though
The exact restaurant Is not definitely mentioned and
indeed IS not known TO the writer the rest OF the
incident Is genuine history and the Of tho
Young mans State Is specified TO give an air OF ex-
nctness and truth to the story for Is true and
will need all the air OF truth It can get. Now 1t
h,.r ..itl No.. la, "
mont, and when this good young man saw the blue
flames playing about his ncighbors cups. mounting
from the sizzling Jumps Of sugar and dnrting over
the black surface OF the coffee with that pure