The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-28
THE COUNTESS
MISSED HER TEA
Restaurant Refused to Serve Her Be-
cause She Was Deeked Out in
Her Riding
Habit.
HOSPITAL FOR ANIMALS
Wealthy Women are Building Asylum
Whose Patients viii be Horses,
Dogs. Cats and
Birds


tempest In teapot. exactly, but sure
~ has caused one. In reality II vas
tempest about cup of tea but If
.created furore up and down Fifth are
nue., and across into Central Park
West. and then it spread along River
side drive, before finally jumping into
Broadway, where il is still talked
about. Society has divided into two
factions, for and against Ahout what?
The Countess Eieanora de Cisneros
went into the tea room Of the Hotel
Plaza az the regulation tea hour. She
did not get 1t. Though the countess, is
grand opera prima donna, she is
also q very real countess. OF high so
Iciai degree and on the tea occasion
she was accompanied by her husband.
| the Count de Cisneros. But, her
ladysnip was also accompanied By a
riding crop and she WIS attired in
boots and a riding habit.
II vas the habit that did the work.
The Plaza would not serve tea to q
countess in riding habit. even when
she was with her husband.
| The count and the prfma donna had
gone for their daily canter on the
bride paths OF Central Park, and be-
ling thirsty when it was over, went
/ into the Plaza for tea. They both
we're wen known in the fashionable
place, and were tie more surprised
at the rebuff they got.
Sorry. M'sieu,s but there is not an
empty table" purred a waiter.
Not a table?' echoed de Cisneros.
in surprise. why, there, and there.
and there-why there are more empty
tables than are occupied"
Our orders are not to serve ladies
in riding habits" the garcon respond
led bluntiy, and then he called the
Il head-waiter and other walters came.
! and de Cisneros and his wife left.
I'VE were elected. yes, actually
elected" sfrieked the count, as he
told the story later.
In London, Paris, Berlin. Vienna
even in st. Petersburg. society people
go to the tea tables and restaurants
for tea in any garb they like, riding
habits included. said the countess,
4 who by the way is an American. aYou
can see men and women too in riding
toys in all the restaurants over there.
that is in the afternoon. NOBODY. Of
course. would go to dinner in a riding
habit, but the people OF the continent
have made up their minds that the res.
tauranteurs shall not dictate their
manner o. dress.
But here in my own dear free
American. we'll, that is something
else again
But, though the count and count.
less dismissed the affair lightly. with
shrugs, FIFTH Avenue has NOT, nor has
: Broadway. Broadway emancipated it
self several years ago. There were
, two restaurants there where It was de.
creed that men without evening dress
J could not eat, but they were so quickly
: and effectuaIIy boycotted that now nc
: dress rules are attempted in the lob.
ster palaces.
But as to tea and riding habits,
| opinion is divided, and the Plaza and
the countess have started something
NEW YORK. Feb. 27.-Wealthy wo-
men Of New York have at last begun
j the execution Of an elaborate plan
: for the care Of sick, hurt. and sqper
, animated dumb brutes. Mrs. speyer
, ME-. Frederick W. Vanderbilt. Mrs
Cornelius 6. Cayler and other women
vii build costly and completes
egpippes hospital and dispensary 70,
astsag and 6eTepit dogs. cats. birds
ane hofses
Tork OK thssr new hospital for ami
-asls rateh ts 10 be the finest OF fts
kszs & TIC woTld was begun last week
T-s sfsw York Womsn's League fol
A-1aasis II ire name the women have
g1rez ~ taeIr organization, and thei,
goste- contains the names OF some o.
she weslthfeat women in and out o
Nev Tork's exclusive society.
I Tae hoepital viii be four storie,
/ high, . bT IN feet, and VIII coz
355y1f9. II will be equipped with ever.
knogn deFiee for handling injured anc
aillng beasts. The building viii b
COlbtTucAEI EtAA q view 70 5eTFiE'
/ but viii not BE- without attraction
| pleasing 10 the eye. Oyer the mai
door, viii hang the coat-of-arns Of tn
league and each window on the stree
ziil be suruaounted by moiolic
4 china head - the different animals 3
q whtea the hospital viii administe,
n The leagues Offices vii occupy par
3 Of tfas first foor. and there viii be
= waiting room for the drivers 81 horse
81 and owners 81 pets The dispensar
g VIII have space o. that IGOR and neai
d By VIM be the operating room 10
3 dogz. Special arrangements hay
s. been planned 70 care for horEes SD
H fering from blind staggers. Thes
= viii be kept IN padaed stalk, that inc