The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-24
FIRST DINNER IN A new FLAT.
4 MUSICAL STGNOR OBLIGES TWO
BACHELOR MAIDS.
He Knew what II Was to Move. So tie
offered to Cook Dinner--It Was
All Italian Dinner. T0o-Misad centuries
and an Unexpected Midnight supper.

Venetian variety and belonged to the long
haired Angoras. He was matinee hero
and was worshipped by boarding-school
girls
Said he. II know you girls will be tired
moving into the fiat so I'll come around
and get your dinner for you the frat night
In some way PLAYING tho violin and
cooking seemed incongruous, and 40 the
blonde said, diffldently:
Can you cook signor?"
Cook" he shrieked dramatically. wav-
ing his arms with a violin-bow motion.
You shall zee"
He will have to curb his artistic tenn
permanent in the fat" said the brunette.
practically There Is no room there for
unnecessary gestures and l don't intend
to sacrifice Dresden to Delsarte.'
What can you cook" said the blonde
the next time the signor made his proposal
for dinner.
-Wha,? Everything But you shall have
a true Italian dinner. / will cook 1t my
self You shall see You will be tired.
| know what it is to move have moved
many times since I came to New York.
You shall sit down to feast that will make
you fee! as though you were in love
what is an Italian dnner?" asked the
brunette coldiy She did not believe in
love, or at least considered it unnecessary
The signor reminisced. There is maca-
roni!"
How novel;" murmured the brunette
sarcastically AN Italian dinner and
Inacaroni."
The sgnor did not understand Ameri-
can persihage.
sAp1 GALA and nrtirhokas HOpa in riil
and chian,i and
but you don't cook chianti"
"That is true acquiesced the violinist
politely, "but you must have chianti with
an Italian dinner"
Don't tell us any more" murmured
the blonde. Il want to be surprised, and,
besides, just at present am busy with the
problem OF deciding how many knives and
forks you have to buy for two people and
company
On the moving day the inmates Of the
new fiat were involved with domestic
rang vigorously.
Doesn't it seem homelike to have the
bell ring9" cooed the blonde Just as il
we were going to have visitors
The bell rang again, and when it opened
VIlcIo "do a III IL "iVh q poNhuSC' ~ SdiuC
from some mysterious importing place in
Coenties slip. and had about it the atmos-
phere Of the unusual.
It took the united efforts Of the couple
to unload the precious article from its
moorings. There were boxes. paper. straw
and mating When they were finally I'm
the floor tenanted. the two faced a small
can Of artichokes.
The brunette laid it on the table in an ex-
'We have spent as much time as IL It wore
q grand piano
They continued their work silently, the
blonde saying extenuatingly. He did his
| best
They we're interrupted by the bell.
There was another package. This time
II was a small bottle Of salad oil. wrapped
In as many cerements as il intended for
premature burial.
The third time it was box Of macaroni.
and from that call on their efforts in getting
unpacked and settled were interrupted
every few minutes by unexpected arrivals.
At length the tiny kitchen looked like q
country grocery store. where one can get
everything from a red flannel wrapper to
diamond ring.
Il am 30 tired of getting presents said
the blonde at length. Il never knew 1t
could be 30 tiresome to receive presents.
have usually liked it,
Perhaps said the brunette, in her
Greek chorus voice. you never moved
before and received at the same time
They worked for while deity. Then
.Of course he wont come until about six,
and we will be settled by that time The
she" referred to the signor.
Promptly at four. while they were busy
trying to put huge bookcase into small
space. the s!gnor hove in sight with an
enthusiastic expression on his face and
hug. bun lie under hiSarm
.comci' said the brunette u, ' b Si
4 should think they did come. We have
done nothing all day but receive things
that you sent.
his white teeth. that I'D give you good
dinner
He looked about the apartment.
III were you would change that desk,
| put the divan over there, move the dressing
table into the other room and change the
said
Suppose you move them If you don't
The s!gno promptly took Of his coat and
UCIoiu Guy 'I'V Soit sup VIC SlNoos
OF the fat OF a minute before was multi
piled by FIVE, He sat down with heated face
and famed himself vigorously with q
pasteboard box cover.
DO you know he remarked genially,
\ believe, like the way, the things were
at frst. I shall change them back
He seemed to feel an electric something
in the air after this last effort, and suggested
that he begin on the dinner.
You nee d do nothing he said genially.
Nothing! You are to be waited on the
way the American ladies love to he waited
on. I am your slave. just your slave
He disappeared into the kitchen and after
a moment shrek was heard.
-Somebody will come and help me light
the thing. | do not know how to light
the thing" he said.
The brunette showed him the tntricacies
Of the gas stove and he was occupied for
q long time In experimenting with differ
ent gas jets and telling in q loud voice,
to which nobody listened. Of the different
things one could cook In different places
on It's surface.
Then they unpaoked books and looked
volumes at each other.
Finally the signor got tired Of the stove
and counted over his packages.
sThere ia one inlssing,' he shrieked again.
Il ordered salt. Did you not get saltf"
"Salt?' asked the brunette, abstraotedly,
Aa aha nlnC0d q piCtnre m tho rnaptAl and