New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-06

your nature to be that way you can't
help It," gushes Claire tossing off a glass
Of wine with what she considers a vivacous
French air.
That's because you're so Frenchy your
self; you think es If you were from dear
old Paree" trills her friend.
Now. let us wander toward the East Side
where We find an "Aechtes Deutsches Cast
/ haus," where a family party Of the same
kind OF Americans has come to do as the
Germans do. They are eating sauerkrau
and speck, schwarzbrod and limburgel
cheese and drinking beer from stems, a:
well as Rhine wine California Ressling)
The parents frankly enjoy the quaintnes'
of it, speaking In complimentary terms o.
| the cooking.
Just like when l studied medicine II
Germany" says the head Of the family
! complacently. II think It beats YOU
French cooking all hollow"
"Why, pa, How can you say 500" pro
tests the daughter. turning up her nose dis
painfully. ugh! Limburger cheese! Who
could eat that"
"Why, Helen" chimes In a curly-hairec
eight-year-old, you know you always eat
IL when nONOuN \ AROUND 10 see you.
Several young men OF sporty appearance
accompanied by girls seem to be enjoying
anything and everything on the menu, but
one girl shifts contemptuously at the
pumpernlckel. wurst and kase, saying:
II don't care If everything is nice and
clean. nor that Germans are fussy and par
ticular with their cooking! I'd rather 60
TO Chinese restaurant. even II there Is
no band there"
Let us go. then, and see a Chinese res
taurant. The first one we visit is a SNOWY
place and crowded with slghtseers TWO
women and an old man who are eating chop
suey and drinking tea unburden themselves
in this way: II used to think It was al
together different. Why, it's nothing but
noodles. and ] don't like the sauce"
what lovely inlaid tables and portleresr'
why. the Chinese walters speak good
English"
IL guess those must be some OF the tough
girls who live in Chinatown In ar
undertone.
| The tough" girls are only a party from
some church society Summing. and are ex
citedly Cabling and giggling at every
| thing. as they jabber: 81 think yock- ma
| is fner do try some OF this birdsnest
| I'D like the tea better II had cream II
| It," But that is not the way to drink II
! The Chinese use no sugar or cream Will
theirs" II wonder what they'd do 10 u
| If they started a tong war right now!'
| II wonder what tong these walters belonl
! to- 1T must be dreadful to be held IL
/ slavery by some of those rich Chinese!"
| From this let us slip away to another
sort OF Chinese restaurant The proprie
! tor is a big. fat Celestial, with smile O
| the never-come-on variety. His wife
dressed just like him. is a childish looknl
creature. with five youngsters crowdinl
around tho table where they are. Then
table manners are splashy. They eat with
chop sticks and with their fingers. splitting
the bones etc, out across the table. When
they have finished eating the table look.
as il scavensers had dumped lot Of refuse
on IL.
Several girls and young fellows who are
sitting with their feet on the tables. putting
cigarettes. commence quarrelling because
ono Of the girls insists on dancing "A Jig
sit down. l tell you. Mag" exclaims one