The Washington times., 1894-06-24
HOW THEY DINE IN PARIS.

Appetizer with big dose of
sulphuric acid in it.
Soup-Tapioca, made of potato starch,
highly peppered.
Hors d'9uvre-Butter compounded with
veal fat and co!ored with lead
Roast-The worst meat procurable, with
truflles nodded out of earth.
Negetables-A salad acdulated with oil OF
vitriol and green peas verdant with copper.
Desse1t-Chorolate cream. sweetened with
glucose and colored with oxide of mercury
and ocher.
CofNee-Roasted horse liver with mahogany
sawdust aud caramel.
Liquor -Kirsch favored with prussic acid.
Perhaps you fancy that this bill of fare is
exaggerated. All you have to do is to look
at Cheyalier and Beaudirmont's volume enti-
tied classification OF Alimentary Substances,
and you will find the actual facts.-San Fran
cisco Argonaut.
writer in England has this to say about
English women bettors. | should say that
women who bet are at least Is per cent. if
not the actual majority. In this immediate
district. Birmingham. there exists system
for collecting bets that beats creation. A
bookmaker. who, by the way. is also u license
holder. employees five or six men. who, | sup
pose, go under the name of clerks, each OF
whom has a round or district. and every
that is. every racing day-these men call
on their respective clients-women. of course,
whose husbands are at work earning money
to be thrown away. / know more than one
case where everything that can be raked
together 10 pawn for the purpose is done. and
the winnings, when they have one, go to the
bookmaker for royal booze.
What | should like to point out iss the
mischief n man who holds Il license and is Il
bookmalier can do in a neiShborhood. He
not 70 hut .1c
drink. l myself have seen scores of women
enter the house with papers. and, of course.
they must have drink before they leave.
Perhaps the public will ask how ii is DONE
The house in question is SO surrounded by
tOuts that on the approach Of a policeman the
signal is given aud the thing stopped till the
coast is clear. This is no prejuGiced view of
the matter, but Il real fact. which can be veri-
fled daily on a walk through this district by
any one with his eyes open. 1t is surely time
the law stepped in and said to the publican
bookmaker: You shall have no license
Appetizing but simple menus for two days
this week.
BREAKFAST.
Biackbcrries
Oatmeal with sugar and Cream.
Eggs Bechamel
Potato Pulls in Cream
Gems Coffee
LUNCHEON.
Broiled Sduab on Toast
Lettuce Salad.
Sliced Pineapple in Cracked Ice,
DINNER.
Tomato Soup.
Baked Spring Chicken. Drowned Potatoes
Asparagus with Parmcsan Cheese.
Corn. Boiled Rice
Cucumber salad
Waters. Snow Pudding. Cheese
Coffee
BREAKFAST
Fruit
Wheaton Grits with Sugar and Cream.
English Mutton CHOPS
Pop-overs Coffee.
LUNCHEON
Cold Meat. Olives
Potato Pu1s.
Berries. Cucumber Salad
Iced Tea.
DINNER
Consommc
Chicken Potpie
New Potatoes String Beans Corn |
Tomato Salad.
Waters Orange Ice. Cheese
Coffee
The country home of Miss Margot Tenant |
now Mrs. Asquith) and her sisters used to be I
known among the men who were entertained |
here as Chateau Nargot." The young
aides excelled in walking on stills. and many /
If the hapless youths who sought to vie with |
made them ever afterward objects of ridicule |
The gardens of the rennant estate are SAID TO |
De modern Eden. the produce OF which takes
Iii the prizes at the Edinburgh flower and
ruit exhibitions.
Odette Tyler is writing a novel of Virginia
ife. She is on the scene of her story, in
Richmond, studying character.
The average Summer girl who h;.s no scru-
lies in keeping half dozen admirers on the
tring at one time has many strange peculi-
Irities. Conspicuous among them is her pro-
'ensity for putting off fellow month after
month, until the thing gets to be monotonous,
ays the Chicago Times. She hates to see him
20. somehow. though she knows from the be-
inning she's not willing to 90 with him.
oung man of Richmond. Va, n few DAYS ago
royed himself the victor in a rather unpeas-
mt feature of the programme. For some time
e had been screwing up his courage to spring
he all-important question. He thought he
ould see the way perfectly clear. for his We
us had been especially nice to him since the
.enten season. One evening he worked him. II
elf up 70 the point and determined to have
ONE kind of an answer. The usual amount
I eloquence having been exhausted, the ro-
,anttc young man was In the act Of sppropri-