The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-02

ID have become fearful as he contera.
& plntcd the perilotis proposition.
While the outside Is forbidding, With
tho mountain all Ia light and merrimeht
Cor mon md women OF all nations gather
hero to dine und listen to the shrill notes
II tho yodlers.
ggs Here arc to be seen all sorts and con-
dittpns OF fnen and women from the
4 highest to the lowest.
At ono tnb!a ats u party of fashiofables
i IN evening dress, syhio across the Isle q
party OF foreign sailor men drink their
beer, bowling gravely and with great cere-
knony before each gulp. IN a corner sits
two ladies OF tho Oriental dance, large
Of eyes, drnped with much gatizc and
adorned with many imitation flowers
They punctuate their conversation with
+ gsggles and 1t Is brought home to the
scoptcal TINT possibly Chicago may have
boon the birthplace OF these houris.
Stolid Japanese.
Up near the front isa table surrounded
by Japanese, who gaze stolidly about
paying no attention to the insistent bow
of the winter who tells them they must
either purchase or depart. Near their
Jap kinfolls are n band of Filipinos. gim-
let.eyed and full OF curiosity, moving
their heads like rats and finding immense
i delight In beer. A party OF America OIL
GERS are at rear table; four marines
and a boa tswain from one of the war
ships sing n salt water ditty and the
crowd cheers.
Up on the stage band plays tho opct
ing bar of a tiinc-honored German folk
song and to the front file four stalwart
women and one very fat man, all dis
& guiscd as Tyrolese singers. Green Is the
& prevailing color, and an freshman In the
crowd sings out, 'Thrce cheers for old
Ireland" but such sentiment will not go"
Get Through at Last.
After many high screams and much
putting of heads together and stamping
o. feet, the number is concluded amid
Wild applause. The gentleman yodler
comes back and bows. an act of heroism
which is apparent when one considered
the immense size Of his stomach and the
perilous frailness of his legs.
rare the yodlers imported or only base
Imitation like the mountain?" 1 asked my
waiter. He paused for the "boss'.. TO
pass and then whispered discrectly,
"They are from Brooklyn. sir: but we will
have real yodlers next week.
"Brng me some Swiss cheese" COM
handed
/" II Is Impossible. There is only imi-
tation. Wo will have real cheese next
week.
"so,no German coffee cake then"
said.
at has all been devourcd, but--we will
have more next week"
''Af well, bring some Munich beer"
I'VE have only American beer, bui-
we will have German beer next week."
1t was all next week: everything was
imitaton--the cheese. the beer, the yod-
lers. heard one Of the singrs scram
to q passerby: Gee but ya're bird to-
night" and not in German, but in a dia
lect that sinacked of little old New York
and reekcd of the Bowery.
How long have van leti: n Anericl?"
asked the waiter.
"But thirty years he replied. with
bow and shrug.
He was once real but had later been
a policeman In Milwaukee.
The only renl things to be seen were
healthy appetites. good food and the
truly Gallo bow n Frenchman made the
company before taking his departure.
Lincoln got it all wrong when he de-
clared, "Ye couldn't fool all the people all
the time
All the American people delight to be
s'fooled" all Tho time. A. p.