The Washington times., 1903-08-16


little dinners, as we'll as to the
equally confirmed partaker there
of. the discovery of new toast is some
thing to rejoice over.
Almost anything that expresses good
will will go with the cocktail, but ones
best efforts should be reserved for the
later courses. when. the inner man be-
ing fed, enjoyment reigns supreme. A
toast that would fall fat with the clans
would be we'll received with the fish, and
with the entree would achieve a great
success.
The mental attitude of the convivial
dinner giver Is we'll expressed in the
quaint inscription of an old Peace and
Plenty pitcher found in a curio shop.
It abounds in capital letters and
breathes a spirit of frankness-
A Friend that is Social,
Good Natur'd and Free,
To Pot Of my Liquor
Right welcome shall be.
But he that is Proud
Or III Natur'd may Pass
By my Door TO an Alehouse
And Pay for his Glass
Equally frank is the Toast of the
Constant Lover" rarely given, as the
tactless truth does not conduce TO pres
ent good fellowship;
Here's TO you. my dear.
And 10 the dear that's not here,Sfny dear;
But il the dear that's not here, my dear,
We're here, my dear,
I'd not be drinking TO you, my dear.
The reverse of the medal is shown in
a modification of Tom Moore:
Let us drink 20 the thought that where e'er
a
He is sure to find something that's blissful
and de2=:
And that when he is far from the lips that
He can always make love TO the lips that
near
The toast OF the Dartie carree shows
a fine disregard of grammar aud some
thing of the philosophy OF Montesquieu
when he said that he attached him
self to such as he thought loved him and
they didn't:
Here's to you two and We two.
II you two like we two
AS we two like you two
Then here's 10 four;
But II you two doE't like we two
AS two like you two
Then here's 10 we two and no more.
What might be called a fair minded
toast is embodied in the words of an old
song:
Here's TO We absent lords,
May they long in far countree stay;
Drinking at other ladies' boards,
The health Of other absent lords.
The wisdom of enjoying our golden
Long live today-our own at least,
Shall we tomorrow see2
Take what YOU can of JOY and feast
And let tomorrow be.
A writer offers homely toast TO con-
! tentment" in language that suggests
covert threat:
No one bulldog yet could eat
Every other bulldogs meat
II you have good sized bone,
Let the other dog alone.
The toasts to lovely woman" are in
Vulnerable. and range from the fulsome
to the coldly critical. not to say savage.
A gentleman, somewhat catholic 10 his
tastes and of testy humor, is response
bic for the following:
Here's 20 women who are tender,
Here's to women who slender,
Here's to women who are large and fat and red;
Here's to women who married.
Here's to women who have tarried;
Here's to women who are speechless-but they're
dead.
That time honored bumper dear to the
masculine heart.
To the light that lies in woman's eyes,
And lies and lies and lesi
is always more or less annoying to the
particular rag and bone and hank of hair
at which II is directed. but she need only
bide her time to raise her glass and send
home her little verbal arrow, which, be-
ing tipped with truth, always makes its
mark:
To woman's love-to mans not akin,
For her heart is home, while his heart is an
inn