The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-09

terhouse steak for breakfast costs vo,
81, and if it be an extra" one its price
is So For luncheon a cup of chicken
broth apiece for two people costs 60 cents;
roast turkey, 81; spring duckling. 3d. even
cold lamb is rs cents; any vegetable costs
from so cents to $1.25; a salad from 20
cents (for watercress when enough is be-
ing sold at the market for cents for five
people, to 81; cheese and a bit of 1ely will
be 65 cents more; black coffee 10 cents for
a small demitasse, after-dinner, half
cup" which was what a waiter once
asked me if 1 wanted.
And for dinner-here is an idea of Del
monicos for a nice little dinner! Trans
late the impressive names into English.
and see how simple it is 1t will cost YOU
81 a person, whether there are four of you
or twentyfour:
Tomatoes en- surprise
POTAGE.
Consomme SouVerainA
Bisque de homard Qobster)
HORS D'OEUVRE.
Mousse de jambon, (ham.)
POISSON.
Kingfish a la meuniere
Ponmes de terre, persillade (potatoes)
Concombres, (cucumbers)
RELIEVE
Selle de chevreuil au vim dOporto Pr
ments fracis, (stuffed saddle of
venison0
ENTREES.
Allies de poulet a la Genin, (chiolen
wingS.)
Petits pois francois, (peas)
Champignons sous cloches, mushrooms
Sorbet au kirsch, (sherbet)
ROTIS.
Pluviers bardes, (plovers)
Salade de laitues Qettuce)
ENTREMETS DE DOUCEUR
Giaces Marguerite, fancy ices)
Fruits. Petits tours, (smaIl cakes)
Fromage, (cheese)
Cafe
Apollinaris.
This price of 81 a, plate does not include
the wines. Delmonico recommends
three with such a dinner, sherry sau-
terne and champagne with, of, course
liqueurs.
Or suppose you order a dinner for your
self. For a peasants vegetable soup,
with some bits OF stale bread. 90 cents. but
you must ask for petite marmite" No
Delmonico waiter ever heard of a peasant
If you like epigrammes, and have one
of lamb to eat, it will cost $50, which
is cheap for any epigram. perhaps. Half
chicken stewed, same price; roast chick
en-, 81; red-head duck. $780, canvas back
81; tame duck. $175; beef tongue, 81; eel
elry, 50 cents; timed asparagus (called
preserved). 70 cents; fresh asparagus
1925; string beans. 50 cents; caulifiower. 60
cents; even a boiled potato is 20 cents;
sweets average 60 cents for each person;
grape fruit, so cents, ETC., etc. Unless
you belong TO the w. c. T. U. you do
not dine in New York without wine Many
people do not feel able to afford it at
fashionable hotel and restaurant prices,
but they order it none the less, only part
ly because they like the taste of it, large
ly because it is the best thing to do. And
then there is the waiter! If you think
life is long enough to stop and argue
about it, very well: but it is much easier
to go and live somewhere else.
Domestic servants keep step with the
march of extravaganza. The woman who
cooks fairly and was willing to do it for
SIG month ten years ago wants $40 now.
and gets it. The really good cook de-
mands and receives $50. $40 and upward,
has a kitchen maid requires that all
bread shall be bought, has in extra help
for dinners and will not wash her own
clothes.
For an item of New York extravaganza
look at the way it's houses are revamped-
not that they are worn out, but because
fashion says "Out upon high stoops let
us have English basements"-so odd N
this city where tradeSmen have no reAE
entrance They have now no longer the
old, depressed entrance under the high
stoop, but must stand side by side at the
door with the naughty lady caller. or
it may be some new idea of the interior
arrangement makes it necessary to pull
down everything but walls and floors ana
sometimes even the floors There IS
hardly a block that is not undergoing
many thousands of dollars worth OF al
terations. when the parts discarded are
total waste of good material.
Private stables are excessively costly
Carriages shat can be hired, into whlch
one is willing to get. will not take pas
senger even for the shortest distance TOT
less than 81, and cabby turns up his no5'
at any pourboire less than Is cents
Well. and what of it? Nothing at an
except that the New York scale of livlns
in the several sets which make up mo
New York society that is talked about -
exceedingly expensive, more so than any
where else in the world And this -
likely always to be the case where theIo
are so many people who are very weaItny,
many of whom have acquired their money
not by producing anything, but because
some one else has lost IT.
Dinah Sturgis.