The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1907-03-29
FREAK HOSPITALITY
in SOCIAL WORLD.
RichAmericanS Sauander For
tunes on Entertainment.
Guests of Honor as Well as Co.'S
tunes Disgusting to
Ordinary Men.

If there is any limit to the eccen'
, tricities of hospitality it must surely
one would think, have been reached
I'm some of the freak" banquets re-
Gently given across the Atlantic.
Sometime ago Mrs. Abram Hewitt
wife of an eX-Mayor of New York
gave highly novel party to num-
Der of her ultra fashionable friends
Each guest appeared in baby clothes
the ladies in short skirts, with theiI
hair in pigtails, and the men beard
less and wearing patched breeches
All carried dolls, states and sponges
and recitiug their lessons to Mr.. w.
X. Vanderbilt and Mrs. Coudert, who
figured as schoolmaster and school
mistress respectively, while the pro-
ceedings were further enlivened by a
chorus of professional singers dressed
as monks and nuns.
Mr.. Romano Peirson, a well-known
American clubman, celebrated the
tenth anniversary of his divorce by a
dinner to "a of his friends at the
Beach Hotel, Chicago The invitations
to the feast were ornamented with
designs representing broken hearts;
the principal toast was, Here's to
my mother-in-law. Heaven may bless
her. but | don't insist" and the place
of honor was occupied by gentleman
whose furniture had been seized by his
former wife few days earlier.
An eccentric feast was given re-
Gently by Mr.. Frank c. Balsito, OF
Brooklyn, to the doctors and nurses
who had attended him during and
after a serious operation. The wines
were drunk out of medicine bottles,
the tables were decorated with an
tiseptic lint, and the ices were served
in the form of human skulls.
For originality. however, it would
be difficult to beat the supper party
given a few weeks ago by Mrs. Fisker
Griffin at her home in fashionable
ing members of Chicago society es-
corted a bird or an animal to the sup
per table, the guests including a gui-
nea pig, a white pig. rooster, rab-
bit dove, a parrot a lizard a ter
rier, a cat and squirrel, the pig
having the honor of being escorted
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laid for 20, and each fourfooted or
feathered guest was served with its
own pet delicacies-the rabbit with
lettuce. the lizard with flies, the cat
with live mouse, on 50 on.
On a very different order was the
dinner given by Mr.. Andrew Carnegie
at the Stevens Institute, New York,
not long ago, at which the appoint
ments were, as far as possible, fash
toned to represent the processes and
appliances used i'm steel factory.
Thus the centerpece was miniature
blast furnace, four feet high, around
the edge of which ran a railway 10
feet long. Intsead of molten metal,
however the furnace poured out hot
punch into small cars, which convey
ed it over the line to the different
guests. \ small model of Bessemer
furnace similarly dispensed pastry,
while the bread was shaped like loco
motives and the ice cream like rail-
way ties.
At a pony banquet" given by Mr..
Harvey S. Ladew, at Glen Cove, Long
Island. the guests of honor were two
ponies which had won the principal
prizes az the Piping Rock Horse Show
The four-footed guests were installed
in two horse boxes, draped in silk
and empowered in roses and between
them sat the host at the head of a
horseshoe table, at which 40 mere
human guests were seated Dinner
was served to the ladies, gentlemen
and ponies together, the latter feast
ing on oats. carrots and other delica-
cics, drinking water from gold-hooped
wooden pals.
At another banquet i'm honor of the
prize POmeranian, the canine guests
were seated on high chairs and fed
by bdtlers with veal outlets, sausages,
chocolates ana ice cream, with lib
eral slice each of birthday cake
which might have graced royal ia