The morning times., 1896-08-30

feasts that delighted the palates Of tn,
| friends or the multi millionaire. There
| are few dishes that Wah cannot prepare
| and his culinary art Is a source OF pride Il
| him. He is always anxious TO know wha
| is served at the society dinners in Wash
| iDgton and is often very expressive In hh
! comments upon the menu.
One night during the height of the pas
! season a couple of the officers were at &
Cabinet officials home to dine. On then
return Wah accosted them with
What you have?"
MAKE FAITHFUL SERVANTS.
The Officers rehearsed long list OF deli
cacies and wound up with coffee, brandy
and cigars.
During the recital Wah's face wore a
sort OF contenptuous smile and at the con
clusion he said:
"Oh. h" and walked out of the room
Those two words said plainly. Il could
get up better dinner than that for the
mess on Sundays
Again, Wah afforded amusement to the
officers by returning from the city one day
and relating an experience something as
follows:
Get fortune told in Washington today.
Fellow d--n fool. Give ilfm four dola'
and half. tell my fortune. He sayI get
mallies soon. Been mailed fifteen year:
wife in China now. He d--n fool
AS yet, wah is unconvinced that he and
not the fakir was the fool.
A Chinese servant is faithful TO q kind
employer, and like old dog Tray. Care can
not drive him away" He does not veer
Hn-,fl, fs,I- g.
In u small town i'll the State of Washing
ton is town-site speculator who has had
Chinese servant for a number of years. In
Ss3 the speculator lost his all and told the
Chinaman he must go when his month was
up.
I'm busted Charley. Can't pay you
any more"
The faithful fellow only replied, ..Tha's
all light, Mista Iced, Pay me when sou
get money" and that was all the quitting
the Chinaman would hear of.
Those words Were the only encoura ging
ones had heard in months" said the spec
ulator to the writer. Instead OF having
taith in my being able to pull out OF th.
hole everyone else was giving me shove
Into IL. each push being a little Ia ore sever.
than the preceding one''
\ Congressman from California, who
brought his Chinese cook with him last fall.
delights To torment his wife with the fol
lowing story:
'one night We We're to have a few
friends in to dine and In the morning my
wife informed Louis tn. Ia tier had hern
giving us good many desserts made 81
oranges In different ways and my wife toll
lim day or 30 before this occasion not
% use oranges for his desserts any more.
but to serve them for breakfast only. To
which injunction Louis grunt cd, An light
The night of our little dinner arrived
ina everything passed off sn oothly urtil
he dessert was broughtin As Louis placed
{ on the table my wife saw that il was
nade OF oranges, and looked up at our
limond-eyed treasure in a reproving man
ler Louis caught the look and orrified Us
III by hurting out:
Iha's all light, desc olangcs lotten.' |
There wasa moment OF disuayed silenc. |
md then hearty burst OF laughter, which |
eheved my wifc's embarrassment not I; |
title. Louis vocabulary is limited, and |
lis remarks tersc. He had meant to saw |
hat he had used oranges which were soft |
n spots, and though the 'oianges' Were .lo.-
en- the dessert was excellent