Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-04

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hey? Lobster rathskeller, flashy men and
their ladifrens all around, crazy, vulgar
decorations, smoke. heat, idiotic music
and all that sort of thing. You know,
it gets me what You can see in this sort
! Of thing that makes you banker for it all
the time.
''How's that? You really wanted me to
take you to one of the more quiet hotel
restaurants Oh, that's what you said. Of
course But YOU knew mighty we'll that
there isn't a sure-enough quiet hotel res
taurant in Washington the evening of
| Decoration day: YOU knew that all trig
enough leave that to you. Anyhow. l
knew YOU were merely talking for erect.
had Your number all right This is the
sort OF thing YOU really love and glOat
over. Can't | see that in your eyes every
time | fetch Won. against my will, but
merely to keep peace in the family. 10 one
of these f1ighty plants? You get the nee
! tic flush on and your face Is all one big
grin and you can't make your'feet behave
under the table when the insane orcheS-
ira plays its inbecile hOity-toit:' music.
and you look generally like somebody in
the fourteenth Mohammedan heaven.
well. are You going to order some
thing? Say. please don't fiddle and FUN
BILE around with the menu for an hour or
, SO. 1t makes a crab of the waiter, and
when YOU get crab of a waiter on Your
\
you might just as we'll be dead. or worse.
You know what YOU want. anyhow.
without looking al the bill of fare, and
know what you want. too. III bet YOU
one of those new burnooSc tGrhanS that
You're going to sting me for, anyhow. that
I can call the turn on what H"y want.
It's either lobster NeWberS Or crab meat
fused UP the same way.
! NO" Well. that's queer. There S
something wrong somewhere. But. of
course. YOU wouldn't order either of
those things after I'd called the turn.
You wouldn't give me that satisfaction
| How's that? On the level? We'll. We'll.
Are YOU aware of the fact that YOU
are making a record: SO YOU really
would like a nice steak. with muSh-
rooms. and hashed and Drowned pota
toes. and some green peas and aspara-
| gus. ana then a salad. and cohee
wait a minute. | don't understand
this. It's too deep for me. It's got me
wingine. DO YOU know that this stuff
that You want really is human food .
Food meant and devised for the con-
headed. regular people" Are you aware
of 1t? Well. we'll.
! It's a record all right. I've got to
celebrate this. I sure have. I'm not
going to let this manifestation OF your
gradual approach to reasen glide by
without something to mark it. Waiter.
fetch us couple of cocktails. Yes,
| Martins. and have EN- dry. And you
can bring quart OF Hunmery brut
with the food Have it we'll iced. Well.
well, if YOU only knew what d hit you
are with me when you give evidence
that you--what are YOU gazing so
| fiNedly at over there" Those two Wom-
Ell with the kalsomined chops and the
booby hatch hats and the phony jewel
ry? Huh. Well you must have little
use for your eyes, to employ en- that
way.
what: Don't think their dresses
are perfectly scrumptious? Well. there
you go. I thought YOU were slowly
approaching the normal view of the
world and its fixtures, and here You
are asking me. if the dresses OF pair
of rathskeller dolls. dresses that look
as IL they might have been designed
by somebody suffering from perennial
delirium trenenS. aren't the scrnmp-
tiousest things that ever were. Veil.
since YOU ease me the smack dab ques-
ton. I don't think SO. Don't think
anything like it. Don't l think the girl
over there in the low neck old rose
dress has beautiful arm? Well. that's
a great question, too. What have
got to do with women's arms? Would
YOU want me TO set mp a critic of
women's arms. Oh, we'll, there goes