The Delawarean., 1901-02-06
DAINTY HANDS
LIFT WINE CUP.
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Bagby gives his musical mornings'-
lesniJer alnnenls that invariably bring
together "a repressn ative showing of
these days the palm-rooms are so
crowded that IL was Fortunate Mrs.
Boole had wisely engaged able in
advance. This table was in IA position
where clear view could be had of
b1dh palm-rooms.
There were twenity-six tables in the
first room, seating two, four, six or
eight persons. N The course of am hour
the guests a. most of these tables had
changed once.
of the persons at these tables thir-
teen were drinking at one time, and
eight walters with empty cocktail
glasses came from tables that were
partially hidden by the stone columns
in the room.
Witch three, possibly -four, exc aptions
these guests were all women--women
with gray hair, fine-looking young
women of thirty, young girls of eigh-
teen.
One young girl, of perhaps sixteen
or seven. cen, drank a cocktail and also
a glass of wine.
Almost all the women drank both
cocktails and champagne. Some had
cordials also.
In this inner palm-room, which was
far more crowded than ,he outer, at
most of the tables visible wine was
served principally champagne.
O'Nelll's lunchroom and cafe. ait the
corner of Sixth avenue and Twenty
second street, was next visited. This
oyster and chop house is in a favorable
position 10 draw the patronage of
women shoppers. On this day many
women were lunching. Every woman
who came in alone had something to
drink. Most of them took whiskey,
or brandy and water, or cocktail
Those who came together had some
times cocktails, sometimes two brand
les apiece, sometimes beer.
Two women, who looked like mother
and daughter, had beer
A young man and two girls were
drinking much whiskey and water.
One man who came in with a woman
left her sitting at the liable and walked
to IA room connected with the restaur-
ant by door at The side of the room.
This door was open, and he walters
passed in and out continually with
drinks for ehe people who were at
lunch.
Some young women came in and had
emily a drink, generally cocktail, and
uhen went out again without. having
any. lunch.
AIT Maillard's candy store and res
tauran. nlne-tenths of the women
were drinking. Maillard's caters to
"csrriage ple'-especially those
Wi h Two men on the box" There
were present young society women the
hunting set the smart s5t."
AT uhe Savoy Hotel few were dining,
as lit was early Every woman in the
dining-room, however, with one ex-
cep,ion, had either wine or a cordial
Champagne was the favorte drink.
A; the Manhattan Hotel Forty-sec-
ond street and Madison avenue, two
out of three were having alcoholic
drinks
At Delmonico's, after the opera, the
cafe was crowded with young people,
men and girls, coming from tine play
houses, and at every table wine and
cocktails were being served.
AT Sherry's, at lunch time and after
the opera, there was hardly a woman
who did not have wine in some form.
Perhaps she had only sorIbet, but it
was sure to contain rum
The fashionable doctors, whose car
riages are SO busy carrying them up
and down Fifth avenue that they never
get time to go very far east or west of
ii, will mot tell you that they treat
many cases of alcoholism.
AS we'll try to find needle in
haystack as a society woman who
does not drink said one woman who
herself belongs to the inner set.
"And you don't see the greater part
of it at public restaurants either. Hard
drinking among the best class of so
ciety women goes on i'm their own
home-in their bedrooms, where no
body except their maids see them.
Lots of them get it at the drug stores
or at the department stores.
The statement having been made
that drunkenness among women is in
creasing, went with a reporter of the
New York Sunday World TO a number
OF places where fashionable women
lunch and dine and p,n for summers