The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-09-18
SWIFT EATING IN EUROPE
AMERICANS TAME THEIR TOOD
roo SIOHLI.
YSu Have % Ne q speed ESI'rrt To keep
Up WIN the PrOcessIoa ~ . Swiss
TAbls d'IGote-Tho Frenehman Can
Eat Rapidly and Niah Elegance.

The man and his wife were eating
They aat In a ANAL garden under boweF
81 shady Isave- small tables surrounded
them and At these tables sat other human
beings also engaged In the nsc-@sary
business Of eating. II would be- idle to
deny that most Of them were also drink
Ing. for the language which they spoke
proved that they did not live in America.
ThOy were not burdcned with Puritan
ideas about the iniquity q taking wine or
beer with their meals. In fact they would
have thought any person who drank
water with meals 70 be either eccentric
or suffering from some disease requiring
q prolonged stay At a Bad.
The man and his wife had learned in the
infancy Of their European ~andering=
that nowhere on earth was drunkenness ~
uncommon as in the bssr drinking coun-
tries. They had seen the French peasant
in his native hsunts and they knew that
he indeed frequently made himself beastly
drunk bat they had dwslt among the
! rotund Bavarians and seen a thousand
people drinking beer in the Hofbrnuhaus
at iI:O in the morning ami again al =
in the evening and had come Tn know that
| these people did not sink into states uf
| intoxiCatiOn.
They had loitered on the slopes 81 the
| Tyrolese Alps and had seen hundreds of
peasants happy and even hilarious. when
| beer howed freely. but not one of them was
drunk. They had watched the Hun
garian villager dancing his czardas after
the manner Of his gypsy forrb"ars and they
had sem him drink conliVially without
overstepplnK the bounds Of deCor'Iin. In
short they had come to believe that gen
eral and hahitual drunkenness existed
only in lands where hard liquor was
the popular beverage Vet TINS too would
have been unjust To Holland, where hard
liquor is freely used while intoNication
ls not common; but in Great Britain and
the United States. where gin and " hiskay
are the leading drinks. intoxication and the
crime committed by people fTenzi-d by
drink are altogether too familiar.
However. this IN not what tho man and
his wife were thinking about as they ate
their katie aufschnitt and drank their
dunkel. They were thinking of III" JOY
Of escaping thus from the wea risome
midday meal In Germany they eat
dinner in the middle Of the day In
Munich for example people attend to
business up TO about II 3n Tlen they
90 20 the beer houses TO drink Al 1880
they have dinner and this occupies them
till 2 Al they sit down 10 afternoon
coffee. Al $50 they have suppe- Thus
IL appears that they earn their living -
fore II 10 A VI
The man and his wife did not like &C.
eat dinner ia the middle 81 he day
Neither did they like 20 ear ~ in the
evening after the manner - certain
Fr"nchmen No more did they yaarn
after the ieshpots 81 Switzerland for
It was Of these that they thought a. they
sat AZ IN" little table under N" bower
Of leaves IN a certain restaurant not many
miles from never mind what stra>S.. ~ "A
German CITY
1T Is unsp-aka6is p~ac".- said the /.
man. to be able To eat no faster than YOU 4
desire 10 eat
Now | know that you are thinking Of T,
the Swiss table a h6te dinner
The wife smiled softly AZ the man, for |
they both had suffered greatly
How fast, said ne. do YOU think a |
Frenchman can eat dinner
That she replied is one of the /,
things that no American knows
You are right no said Il remember |
hotel in that beautiful city where tn. /
blu~-t 81 rivers flows OUT Of a graa, lake |
In that hotel they ring a boil TO summon .
the hungry to the trough II YOU enter /
the room after the first course mas been .
served you may not have II You must I
begin your dinner with the second Then
the walters stand over you like hungry
hawks They plaC" a course before YOU
and after that their whole ohiec, IN IN.
seems TO he tn get the plate away from
you II you lay down your knife and fork
for on" instant your plate - whisked
away and IL at the far end Of the room
before you can speak held the watch
On IN" service in that room one day and
found that people wer" expected To-
eat course in three minutes Pie
intervals between courses ven, much
longer than the courses themselves 30
that the major part 81 the dinner Wa,
occupied with expectation and disap-
pointment
Yes continued the wife. taking M
The subject where the man left on. and
that ~ by no means m" worst There ~
a hotel which sits upon the plaza 81
noble elevation. Yet ~ ~ not AZ the tot
Of the world You climb there on a
vermc'Ilar railway that undulates IN
ward through wondrous valley sur
Ivy snowy peaks and glaciers
stop said the man DO know this
valley? Methinks it is the place Of many
Horns. Is u no',-
You have reason cravely replied the
wife When you have WOUND your
devious way up through this enchanted
valley you come to a little yellow wooden
town ciinging In one white street Il 81. ,,
IN a peninsula 81 comparatively IA,
ground
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