The sun., 1910-05-08
TWO BIRTHDAY PARTIES.
A DSublS CeIrbratian al an Italian Tabl
? d'HOte Horth RemraberlR~

A DouBle Celrbration at an Italian Table
p d'Hote North RemembeFiaG.
> n you live in a tiny studio near tho
Alley and Washington square and scrab-
bio for your meals Just anywhere or in a
hnaTding hoOss Wherp substantial. un-
poesioal meals and tho first of tho month
come With sordid regularity: and II in
spite of this unkind soil birthday still
kloGa0ms Tor you. YOU take Il and with
some ohos1n souls hie yourself 20 one q
half . Dozen Italian PLACES. where you are
served with a seven oourse tablo d'h6te
with wine for 81 cents Afterward when
you ere quts grown. When picture
dsalors heE You unctuously u bs ssatcd
o. there are interesting hits abo,r your
passion for gardening among the literary
notes you say a. yOu wend your slightly
vague Nay h1meward from the celsbration
% your IN birthday ~ fashionable res
eaurani
We'll. after all We had more fun at
0iovanni's Hey. d'you remember that
night Mary had the whole plaoe 1oing
with 'Funiculi' and madame seni a cake
with twcnty candles on II By Jove, a
cake with twenty candlss for mel
You rsminiace all the way home and
the idsa grows on you that Giovannis IL
really after all more fun than ;hOss up-
town places. You may h. oven dsludei
enough 10 cAll up Jimmy some night and
r. over there. but even then you will
ranch,de that the place hns just 7in down
Re4liy this ackadaisical soup. this in
definite entree. this deoidsdly Ineffective
fowl and raGgod salad would not have
bean tolerated In the old days
But mark you. On a Saturday evening
lately there vas double birthday party
az that very 0iovannis. that is. two sep
arAts people had repaired thither with
friends 20 celebrate thsir feast. One was
q young gentleman distinguished by even
ing dreaa. accompanied by another They
had by some chance wandered INTO this
bypAth from the gilded emu = Of finance
o. business. They it.nOcently allowed
q walter 10 eteer them 20 a small table
directly beneath the spot where SiRnor
0iuho Malatesta would presently sing
with passion che bella cosa They
ordered vsry dry Martins and after that
some best Chiant
The Othsr birthday was a girls She
was q very young art student. because
she wore a pretty gown that had cost
nothing. and she had made a fascinating
little turban hat by winding an old s0ft
toned silk scaFf about a hat crown The
other girl Of the party gray eyed. had Tot
on 70 far that she wore a shirt waist and
skirt Ike other psopla. and rolled her hair
IN a knot In the back without considering
the stunning effect ID would have made
drawn over her earH
At the dessert she tossed on sure cari-
ontufes of every ns-Of tho German
planlst, who did indeed look like a wairtis.
M the fair, fat. jolly youth and the Byronic
semli-habituea. they selected Just the riRht
tRbIe % 80 every one, to escape the raw
eat part Of The music.
Therp 10 little boy here Who sella roses
nnd violets. His name-hs u Greeks
pronOunoed Epumanantes. The plurnp
4. uah. with bluahes. presented the RiTl
with some rod roaaa The other. vim ton
der melancholy. chose yiOlets Ths girl
ln0aguad them and put them In a glaaa In
ihe middle " the table
On of ths cOrreCt youths noted thia I
raza waved q grave finger at Epumanan- F.
iea. and selected q aheaf n delicate pink /
rosa. which. with q how from the waist .
~ mutfly begEod thN ottaF % ancept I
which the other did with a pretty snd .
hlulhinr graoa. and Dlaned thom whars I
~ youth still permitted him q waist linp /
And h Other poured bic vine ior him ]