The San Francisco call., 1909-09-03
ROMANCFLURKS
/. IN GREEN PEAS
ON ASHES MENU
Colonel KowaIsky Entertained
at Banquet in Red Room of
FairmOnt Hotel
Guest of Honor Grieyed by Use
of Name Which. Suggests
an Affinity


guest Of honor at a Fairmont banquet
! with cunning dishes 10 tickle his pal
ate and wins cuves to warm his blood.
with wit and learning and distinction
loEnd him and around. yet was the
colonel dolefpi as a forgotten heir
The. Colonel felt that game had been
made <f hirn-ald not of him alone, but
OF his friend King. Leopold. as well.
Nor did il lessen the transgression that
an intimate. romance had been faunted
before Ills friends
The trouble spTang from the menu OF
the BANQUET that was given Colonel
Kowa lsky5ip the red room Of the Fair
mont last night. The writing Of the
menu was left to Porter Ashe. and with
sn enthusiasm 10 rlocal color which.
colonel KoSyalskv failed thoroughly TO
appreciate. .Ashe. set. down blue points
a rOsrendaise 'consome Leopold,
tpaupiettes ofesole; BruXenoise. po-
tatoes Stephanie' and 'larded tillet OF
beef Laken..'
NECESSARY FEMININE TOUCH
This rought handling of the sacro-
sanct house of Belgium was annoying
10 Colonel Kowalskys who .reverences
every last white hair in the royal whis-
kers aof Leopold: but when he read
green peas Maline" 1t was the last
sYou SHOULDN'T have done it. Porter"
ne CALCULATED sorrQwfully.
sAiv only regret was that we had no
Belgian l1sre..' answered the graceless
suenu writer: the while there buzzed
around the banquet board the query:
who is MalineR"
Merely q bit of sentiment" Porter
-Ashe conhded; the necessary feminine
touch. YOU know.
It was joyous evening There were
colonels there aplenty and more law
s-ers than Edgar Peixotto, the toast
master. could crowd into the list of
speakers. Sir Henry Heyman was
there to represent music and Colonel
Isaac Trumbe to speak for art. Jake
GOttlob was merry in spite Of the Shu-
berts and Bob Countryman forgot his
political rough riding.
Guest REMAINS AWAKE
Colonel Kowalsky. the guest Of hon
OF, sat behind a mass of chrysanthe-
NUNS with Doctor WinslOw Anderson
on his right and Edgar Peixotto on
his left General ". H H Hart,
Charles Asher and Captain -Lucien
Young sat near. But Carroll Cook and
Frank p. Deering were conspicuous by
their absence.
There was considerable trepidation
st the beginning Of the dinner lest
Colonel Kowalskys fall asleep. Porter
Ashe had some doubts as to that widely
heralded cure the colonel boasts when
he saw him bending somnolently over
his "consomme Leopold but the dis
Greet bursting Of "a paper bun holder
brought the colonel to with a start
and he stayed awake. for the rest Of
The evening.
when the ice cream had been dis
sected and the sugar was melting in
the cafe nOir. Edgar Pei1otto. with a
gentle tap on his champa gne glass,
burst into the OratOry of the occasion
Where the colonel is. there is sun
shine there is happiness quoth PeiX-
otto while Doctor Anderson and Gen
eral Hart almost mingled whiskers IN a
nod Of vigorous approval. He is one
who may always be found on the
sunny side Of the street Whether he
has money or whether he has not, he
IS always spending IT,
Colonel Trumbo aDplauded vigor-
Ouslv
Then Judge sanderson rose, pulling
at his mustacae.
II never think.6f the colonel as a
lawyer he confessed. i never have
and ] hope'to God T never will I love
has enthusiasm. Love his faith like
that Of a child, J. lOve his optimisc.'
And when modern. instances failed.
Judge sSa nd dersOn praised KOwalsky out
OF Plato and Marcus Aurelius.
AGAINST JAPANESE WOMEN
Captain Lucien Young rose to con-
cert pItch when he took the .banqueters
thunting with Nimrod voyaging with
tSolom6n 10 Ophir and riding the trail
with Pizarro to Mexico. lie denounced
1.-THE japanese, whose women he said,
Fhsd no virtue, and praised Colonel KO-
f-STs lsky.
g'If NE .hsd such a one as the colonel
no 20 east for us we could have a mag
inifcent feet riding in the Pacific he
declared. Let Us for ma round robin
sand send our distinguished guest as en-
fvoy extraordinary 10 washington, and
Wen get the feet and ship subsidy
The true purpose. of this banquet
stands revealed" said a scoffing one,
sotto vOce.
After Sir Henry Heyman- had fiddled
General Hart took herfoor.
i had occasion, he began blithely,
''to have the colonel. associated with
me in a case that lasted I 7 years.
All the lawyers looked their envy.
And Notwithstanding the joshes os
The papers I always found him a true
citizen and during all those II years
III never found a dark spot or an i'm
tproDer suggestion iii him"
Colonel, II you leave us" concluded
Hart, with the suspicion Of a sob. go
WITH our blessing.
Jimmy Devote wiped his eve with
fEhe corner Of his serviette.
COLONEL SEEMS MELANCHOLY
And then the colonel himself arose
The grievance. Of the menu reference
20 Maline and the ''kink" lent a gentle
melancholy to his mood and a soothing
infection OF chastened sorrow to his
words. He spoke Of his Eve years ex-
1le from the home OF his boyhood: he
touched tenderly on the earthquake.
While YOU suffered here. we srf-
1ered there he said, meaning Broad
way.
Il return" he went on. TO find
friends struck down by the blows Of
men who were their friends. II is
wrong; il is wrong; il is very wrong.
We must lose this provincialism.'
The colonel told Of Los Angeles and
the southland which, like his old self.
used to sleep the day. away" bur
which now, like himself renewed. lis
ever wide awake"
Then he glided across the con8inent
TO McAd0o OF the subway, "a wonderful
man. They don't shackle him and
pat him in prison. They don't call
him q dreamer. All great creative
Eeniuses have been dreamers
And sleepers. too. perhaps" muir
murmured one who shall be nameless