The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-10-05


toms when they are not immoral.
! There is nothing immoral in a wife or a
daughter sitting at a cafe with her hus-
band and father; indeed, the very fact
of having women sitting near him may
prevent man from taking too much.
So it is with the dining places-they are
almost entirely supported by foreign
ers. who like 10 dine in those beauti-
full places overgrown with magnificent
flowers and at tables which are made
artistically ornate with the rarest of
blossoms and electric lights shaded
with transparent colored shades. while
listening to u tzigane band PLAYING
captivating music"
You say the French do not go TO
] these places to dine?"
Indeed they do, all who can afford it.
( They all DO in summer, when there is a
! birthday or the anniversary of a mar
riage dinner, or when the wife tired of
! getting up her own menus, asks her
husband to take her to the Chateau de
/ Madrid, lie Doyen's or to the Chalet du
4 Cycle. That is a glorious outing for
! her. she puts on her prettiest light
/ dress, her best hat and ii is delightful
/ to see her enjoy her dinner. You will
/ often, in those places, find long tables
! for ten or twelve. and around them
! grandmother, grandfather, husband
and wife children and relations. hay-
!
! family anniversary. Those dinners out
! of doors are one of the destinations of
! Paris, and one of the most harmless
| ones"
It is probably in Paris that the most
extravagant dinners take place. Not
/ long since, in the Figaro. there were
/ surprising accounts of dinner parties
/ in which money is lavished, for which
! the preparations, the cost of the
menus. of the wines, of the fruit and
the arrangement of the tables almost
reminds US of the wanton extrava-
] gances of the Roman emperors.
! Not long since, at a long table COW
| cred with orchids at the Chateau de
! Madrid. sat eleven persons, for whom
! the host paid a bill of $1,000. Upon be-
/ ing asked what the guests would eat
and drink for that price the proprietor
/ of the establishment said:
But 500 per head is not much when
! there were $500 worth of flowers on the
table, when the wines served were from
$40 20 $40 bottle. and the peaches
given at dessert cost SO apiece But I
put up dinner once where the fish.
coming from Russia, cost S240. The
table was covered with a garland of
lilies of the valley which cost 20 cents
a twig."
But the man who presented the big
gest bills was Emile Aoust, who used
to be the maitre dhotel at Bignon's.
and who is the founder of the Amphi-
tryon club in London, to which went
the Prince of Wales. For the opening
of the club there was dinner of twelve
covers. which cost e215
The person, however, who spent the
most at dinners was a man who went
by the name of the king of restaurants
King Milan Of Servia. He once gave
dinner for five persons which cost him
81, 200. The menu was the following:
aoss-d 'oeuvre la Russe-Huitres
d'Ostende-Potage Borche-Consomme
brabanconne-Coulib a Ia Russo
Selle de chevreuil a la Cumberland
Pommes a la Pompadour-Foies gras a
la ulangere-Canard roti de Rouen-
Salade a la Parisienne-Ortolans ct
CABLES aux truffes-Cardons a la moelle
-Souffie a ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS de
fruits-Cafe, liqueurs--Grande fine
Champagne de 1S00-Chate -Youem
1SS4-Perrier-Jouet 1874-Grand Porto
1sl5-Grande Madere 1S11-Chateau-
Margaux 1S4S.
The menu was Of royal blue satin
fFinged with gold, and cost 1925. There
were three bottles of each kind of wine
that cost $500. The viands cost $780, The
table was ornamented with white mus
$40 a pound. The room in which the
dinner took place was ornamented with
$1,000 worth of lilies of the valley,
which the king himself bought. The
dinner cost about s., 600.
King Milan gave royal pourboires,
and he never looked at anything but
the total sums of the bills and settled
without making the least remark.
An American went into one of the
large restaurants of the Grand boule-
ward one day and said:
Il came from America on purpose to
taste all your wines, every one of them.
But l do not want any bottle to cost
less than 500" He then took two meals
a day at the restaurant and to ex-
haust all the kinds of wines in his cell
lar the restaurant keeper made the
experience last a month and half.
The caterer perhaps could not swear
that he did not several times have the
man taste the same wine twice.
In one of the Paris restaurants a
Hungarian once ate $50 worth of iced
strawberries for his dessert.
An Englishman one day went to the
desk of the same restaurant and said:
Here is e100 which ! leave in your
desk to be certain to have the best
cognac during the time of my stay in
Paris" He went twice a day for his
cognac; he also brought friends with
him. and in a month, having drunk all
the cognac he was entitled to, he left
and was seen no more.
Maxim's is where the most cham
payne is drunk. Men and women there
do away with over $4,000 bottles a
year, which cost about s., 100000
Of all the people at Maxim's those
who can drink the most are the Rus
slams One day Russian drank alone
a double jeroboam, that is one of those
immense bottles that contain eight or
binary bottles of champagne, One can
often see a Russian empty five bot
ties of champagne from midnight to
O'Clock in the morning.
After the Russians the men who can
drink the most are the Americans, the
Belgians. Then come the English, the
Germans. and last come the French.
The farther south you go the more So
Der you find the men. The italians
love fresh water; the Spaniards are
not drinkers.
SURVIVORS OF PAST CABINETS.
Men Who Were Prominent in Ma