The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1902-02-20
CHOICE DINING CLUB.
Novel Methods Of the Children
Of the Ark.
sCELE OF. NEXT FEAST IN PARIS.

pOGIs1 VI IL JAI LAN4 1N AA4Ns
Every Member of the Organization
Claims Noah ma an Ancestor-On
the Occasion Of Their December
Banquet they Will Journey In
Spirit From Philadelphia to
France.
The Children of the Ark. that odd or
ganization. every member Of vaicn
claims Noah as his illustrious ancestor,
will give the second dinner of its career
the latter part OF December.
The first dinner Of the Children OF
the Ark took place on Feb. last. 1t
was rendered to G. Jason Waters. the
originator Of the society. and fifty
eight men sat down in miniature ark
on the second floor Of the Hotel Fan
ders in Philadelphia to toast the IA
Their of the deluge and to pledge his
memory.
Now the Children OF the Ark will
journey to Paris for their next dinner
that is. Journey in the spirit and not
| in the flesh. says the Philadelphia
Press And the dinner after this com
Ing one will take place In Morocco
again in the spirit. for the Children Of
the Ark mean In the course of their
existence to see all countries. and to
dine in them. even though they do
not bulge from the same dining room
that saw their initial spread in the
ark.
The scene of the dinner during De-
cember will be Paris. the place cafe
cha:ltant Gravel walks will be laid.
imitation grass planted. make believe
fountains will be sunk. There will 10
small pine tables and ordinary cafe
chantant chairs. Chinese lanterns will
swing from make believe trees. and
there will be little stage in one cor-
ner Of the dining room. where the
French per .ormers will 80 their Gak.ic
turns ut vaudeville,
The menus will be in French. The
walters will speak French. and gen
darmes with clanking sabers and fierce
mustachos will strut up and down
this make believe cafe chlntant aud
keep the guests in order And that's
how the Children of the Ark will cele-
brate at their i.ecenlbe. dinner.
The January dinner will be oriental
In character. All the haDgings will he
Moorish and the guests. instead of sit
ting on chairs. will squat on cushions
and will sit close to tiny tables. each
diner having wee table all to him-
self. Highly spiced food will I've served
and hookahs in lieu of cigars will be
furnished. The servants will be dress
ed in Moorish fashion and have been
given orders to salaam their prettiest
instead Of saying. Eyes. SIR" when q
guest addresses them. r
1.-THE idea for these dinners" said
Mr. Waters recently. "came about
through the desire of few PhiIadek
phia men to start new dining club in
this city that would be radical de-
parture from, the usual dining club and
would be absolutely novel In its plan
and method. | was TO be chief thinker
that is. some OF the men suggested
new sort Of dining club and was to
think out the sort Of club it was TO be
$50 | decided on the Children OF the
Ark as the name because then by title
at least. we would be the oldest club
III the world and would l~ antedilu-
Wan when compared with tie Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution. the
Danes of Colonial Wars. Descendants
OF the Mayfower or any of those very
modern organizations.
$50 the title having been decided
upon. til" noxt thing to evolve was the
novel method of dining The thought
struck me that the Children of the Ark
would naturally wander when they
struck dry land and to have. there
fore. the different dinners in different
countries But. first OF all. we must
ner. the one gwen last February. took
place in the ark. And now we've be-
gun to travel.
There were twelve men as charter
members = SO as to represent the
twelve tribes of Israel We were to
have no ofiicers-one man was not to
be elevated above the others. Then.
too. it was decided to invite thirty
eight guests in addition to the twelve
charter members-to Lave fifty per-
SONS TO each dinner. Our first dinner
saw fiftyeigEt sit down hut hereafter
we are gong to try TO limit the mum
her to half hundred.
ct course before we terminate our
usefulness as a dining club wen
visit t.ie entire globe-in spirit There
will be Il spread in the interior of At
RIGA, one ia he philippines. one in IIol-
land. one at the north pole In eact,
the Children of the Ark will eat legl,
saply. twice year and 90 over The en-.
Tire globe in their waniterin~s. ana
Nnen. ia the course Of Fifty years or SO.
we've exhausted al tie countries az
this earth Vel dine III some Of the
planets. for we've made up our minds
never to eat mere than one dinner in
one pace
The tv,lve members Of this odd club