Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-21

membered as having been a tailor in
comparatively small way on the South Side
of Chicago only a bit over decade ago.
English Table Manners.
They are infinitely better manners, at
that, than those of one of the great dukes
of England-a paid, shriveled, perfectly
Notwithstanding man-who occupies
large table all by himself, and who leans
back in his chair, with his hands thrust
into his trousers pockets. surveying the
diners with all of the vulgar insouciance
of a knight of the Garter who is also one
of the richest men on the globe. He COM
plains ENORMOUSLY to the waiter over the
length of time between the service, over the
glare of his stand of table candles, over the
ragout. over this, that, and the other, and
the walters eyes positively giisten with the
delight of being bulied by SO tremendous
figure in Burkes.
An Ex-Queen of Song.
With well-known, sad-looking eomeolan
there is a stout eX-songstress IN comic
OPERA who is now stationary here with
Broadway burlesque outfit because she does
Just SO frightfully abominate travelling In
the PROVINCES" Well, she is not so airy
fairy as she used to be. although she does
hold on amazingly, and it is observed that
she takes graham waters ana weak tea,
while the sad-faced comedian has Holsters
and wine for his-but that demon. embon-
point, must be kept down. She is now per-
hitting her hair to resume Its natural
color again. 1t is observed, and 1t is not
lovely in its transition state. For the rest,
she is admirably clothed, perfectly made
up, and she says hahlf-pahst and cahnt
and uses her lorgnette just as If she hadn't
done a song and dance down al Tony Pas
tors a matter of nearly quarter of
century ago.
Queer Pair.
Who js the serene well-fed looking man
of middle age that Edouard de Reszke.
the mighty basso, is with? None other
than Phil Dwyer, the horseman. That
seems a singularly assorted pair, does 1t
not? While you are rejecting upon 1t,
however, you remember that Edouard de
Reszke and his brother Jean. the tenor,
are vastly interested In horse racing-that
they have magnificent stable of thor
oughbreds in Poland that they race on
the Russian tracks and that most of their
thoroughbreds are of American breeding
and purchased from the Dwyer brothers.
The basso and the horseman talk animat-
eddy and laugh good deal. Last night,
YOU remember, at dinner given at the
Gilsey House the occasion was very shaggy
indeed. and was long time in breaking
up, and the greatest basso on earth, this
same de Reszke, sang for the gentlemen.
My Honolulu Queen 1t if
Gerome or a Meissonier had stepped down
and painted patent medicine sign, just
for the fun of the thing.
An archbishop of the Catholic Church
sits at a small side table with foreign
looking man with pointed beard, and
the archbishop, who is a finished Irish
man, talks beautiful italian with his COM
panion.
Such AfFss
A famous ST. Louis divorcee In a black
lace dress with a demi-train of such pro-
portions sweeping after her that one in
advertently wonders why she hasn't pro-
vided pages to lift it, comes in, accom-
panied by an elderly woman. She looks
around discontentedly, twists her finger
rings. declines to. take the seat the head
waiter selects for her. looks more and
more pettish al! the time; snaps at her
elderly companion, and finally flounces to
table at the extreme end of the room
where she pumps herself down as If she is