The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-03
WAR LUNCHEONS.
Ices Come In Torpedo shapes, CaI-cA
Built Like Forts.
From the Philadelphia Press.


From the Philadelphia Press
AT a recent luncheon given TO President
and Mrs. Mckinley by a member of tn
cabinet the table fairly bristled with bay
onets. In fact nothing was eaten that
did not have in it dash of the war spirit
nothing, except the soup, and that was
served extra hot Even the cakes served
with the torpedo-shaped ices were made
in the form of a fortress.
A rather unique effect at an Aston lunch
con was hard tack crackers sent from
camp by Col John Jacob Aston. The
story that is told simply relates that they
were served, not that they were eaten
Another hostess, however, improved on
the Aston idea by having hard tack SOU
venirs with the names of the guests en-
graved on them.
And still another woman went even a
step further than this by having dainty
cakes made in exact imitation of the hard
tack crackers and serving them with ices.
The imitation was SO accurate that the
guests did not eat them until one more
daring or more patriotic than the rest nib
bled at her cracker. The next bite dis
PEELED the illusion.
Cannon ball buildings are met with at
every table and even sugar is put up in
bullet shape
Yellow flowers are out of the question,
but every shade of the national colors is
seen in profusion in the reception room
and dining room floral decorations. In
fact, these are invariably set off with the
American flags and eagles, and give the
affairs a most effective martial tone.
The weddings that have been celebrated
those al MapkpV
and Miss Draper and Mr.. Vanderbilt and
Miss Dresser, the latter in Paris, gave ca
terers a splendid opportunity to show
their skill.
In the latter case it was French ca
terer who surpassed all his previous eff
forts by a model of the Bartholdi statue,
draped in American colors, as a center
piece at the wedding breakfast. AZ an
other smart wedding on this side the
bridal cake was a massive CONNECTION,
fully seven feet high and weighing 80
pounds
on the cake stood a facsimile of the
national capital in sugar, and around il
were emblems of satin with raised sugar
ship designs.
Another wedding cake made by New
York firm was five feet ten inches high,
with four figures at each angle in sugar,
and representing Perry, Farragut, Dewey
and Sampson.
The cake was surmounted by the de-
sign Of the battleship Maine, and with the
flags and streamers above il and on all
sides Of the room, the table fairly groau-
ing with its weight of flowers, the effect
was one long TO be remembered
Even the menu cards are taking on this
martial air. and one particularly warlike
was thatB recently given by the Riverside
Yacht Club, of New York, on the Occas-
sion of ats summer opening. The menu
card was an embossed American flag and
In each of the stripes was course. Every
dish had only its American title, and next
10 il such sentiments as these:
.eNhat Dewey Gave Montojo-Soup,"
''Beer-Where Ceryera now is-bo Ned"
''Beef-Here's to Roosevelt's Cowboys"
"Ohves-a la Blanco-Eat EN- up" etc.
Ii would ill the space Of a page to re-
produce the menus that have been thrown
upon the market by patriotic caterers,