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Show FOREIGN NEWS, i ii , . : T EVENING- NEWS..- NEWS SOCIETY , - . . , j i l' , , ' - MUSIC, THE DRAMA, AND LITERATURE v 3 V is (I D i v tiitr a Awalif, Parts Takes Tables . as (Special Correspondence.) . ARIS, June 2. The first question put by a to Parii when new-com- Um efeve-VMaa- SMewalk. ee .SgertHf Arml Lrtr'BMtis-firltr- . INtI Aaasllb blindfolded in Aha year and in what village wine eras frown , mr smoke. As for dancing, good as this may Tie for the appetite, the best Paris restaur- cePt to your pocket-booants have no room for it even if they had the inclinaONLY HALF A DOZEN OF THEM. tion. Small dining rooms, with at most half a dozen But these are not the famous restaurants of are favored by the famous houses.' Two tables, Pari3. Of the latter there are not more than half most establishments in the Latin Quarthe a?een. None of them is attached to a hotel, and ter have reputed and in one of quite tiny without exception, all of them are called simply by the near where the them, Palace, .Luxembourg the name of their proprietor. Your hotel porter can French Senate sits been it has alleged, (the Senate, tell you theii names. If he babbles about "Cafe this,1 chose the location because of the restaurant opposite) deia or Braisserie that or Hotel tother, he a luncheon or dinner, even if only for two or three ceiving you or himself None of the really first-clawould preferably be served in a private restauranteurs now carries on a cafe business. persons, room. Many good cafes also have good restaurants, but at It was in the latter restaurant that I once witthe very top of the tree the two businesses are quite nessed a little incident that is typical of tha atmos- distinct"' It is true that one renowned house in the and traditions of these places. Our host was a? phere Faubourg- St Honore is sometimes referred to as the distinguished Frenchman who had lived abroad for Cafe X though it is not a coffea house; pernumber of years.JThejwhite-yhiskere- d a waiter who haps the most famous af them all served observed us him attention with discreet for peared was the Caf Anglais on the Boulevard dea and then time since a remarked: sometime is "It long italiensj which was never, properly speaking, a cafe we had tha pleasure of seeing Monsieur. Thats a . eat ali. Opposite it there was until recently an said our Amphityron, "the laBt time I was fact, tablishment of high repute, especially among wealthy here was 25 --years ago." And on that occasion, business men, which was both cafe and restaurant , continued the waiter, "I had tha happiness to aerva now bite their pens or But harassed bank-tellecaneton a a la prasse au Chambertin for Monsieur. their nails, in the rnarhle halls of what was once - Quite right, Louis. was the reply, and to celebrate ; the Cafe Riche. . r the day you win give us another pressed duckling Mention of marble halls reminds one that the with Burgundy wine sauce. And, Louis, . . n Paris restaurants which are in the first ' don't forget to tell the chef that it ia for 'a regular flight are almost suspiciously simple and unassuming customer! 'i in their outward appearance. One, and perhaps the r MONTMARTRES IN RESTAURANTS. building dearest of them all, occupie a shappy corner There are, of course, many other places where in a n&rrow street, and still hypocritically n hibits a few bananas and oranges in one of its win- - one eats quite well besides the famous .. dining-roomThe to. In the referred humblest of like interior, , dows the the Halles, or neighborhood n at first glance, is hardly more luxurious. The tables Central Markets, there are two or three are small and close together; there are no flowers; to gourmands. One of them, celebrated for its esotherwise (dont shudder) ordinary plebeian chairs slip about on the bare waxed cargot a de Bourgogne tablebleak which of snails relieves the are supposed to have fattened on the' flodr. Nothing expanse is vine leaves of Burgundy looks, with its nine coun- , cloth except the barest ytensHs for eating. It impossible to conceive that this unpretentious, almost ter, like an ordinary Parisian bar, rather than an mean room ia one of the temples of epicureanism. expensive restaurant. The size of the bjll, however, in is most the The clientele, however, distinguished may rest assured, will be quite in keeping with disona. Messieurs, Mesdames? you are pretty tain to dine .well. .There is practically no l cer- ri- sk- k. it H is one of those insidious ques- - tions, which, like .When did you and' stop beating y6ur wife?, alarm confuse the most innocent and well-meani- i citizen. It ia a question to which there is no answer. -- salles-a-mang- sa The best informed boulevardier in Paris know where is the best place to dine. he did, unless he were as sure of you does not And even if your tastes, bank balance, your opinion on Waste as a your Social Factor and the relative merits of breakfast V , , sareala and a Luxeuil ham stewed in champagne, to aay nothing of your,..keMw!od0 guage, restraurant French not tell you. ,would ef that occult lan- - as he is of himself, he He knows where he likes to dine, and he Is vaguely aware of the thousand impalpable reasons which make him. like to dine there. He hqwjiiljv rs knows where the Uproariously Rich dine, though it may be a puzzle to him to know why they do it. He knows, too, the names of half a dozen restaurants which the -- proprietors, assisted by competent publicity experts, have decided are the Home and Last Refuge of High French Cooking. , But there is no best place to dine which, like the highest build- ing or the ugliest professional beauty on the Parisian- boa la. can be confidently pointed out to m strangers. iitili, one would like to be helpful; and the guard of the hundred of thousands of American tourists who would be glad of such help is already arriving. Even the most frugal of them have the ambition to eat, at least one; a real French . re dinner, ra&hion, cooked and served in the authentic which, it is almost vtmecessary French to 'saj lias nothing to do with the cosmopolitan food conjuring of the great hotels, either in France or elsewhere. It is obvious that in suck establishments, no half-doze- i half-doze- well-know- jou Paris, though there is nothing smart about either the serit or the building. The food, the wine,-anbe in a had aa can vice are as near perfection they , matter whether the menu be written in French, Choc- - public eating house. Chance visitors, particularly if tow or cuneiform characters, the managements only they belong to the class that pays little attention to problem is to find the lowest common food its food and drink, are often deceived by the simator of ail the nations of the.eafjh. The task is plicity of the surroundings. Not a bad little place, would like,' but what this, that you have found, said a London publisher wjot to discover what each guest . the smallest number of them will refuse .to eat. When last winter ttf an author who had invited him to lunch a meal has been served without a single visitor inthere. "No, gasped the author, who though his his sisting that baggage be immediately placed upon guest probably knew about such places as Voisins, a cab, the manager has scored a triumph. Foyota and Larues, and had squandered much No 'sneer against hotels, French, American, Britthought and money on n perfect meal ; I like it be" ish or even Bulgarian, is intended in these remarks. cause it ja aa quiet! . Good hotels," like good people everywhere, "behave , Music and dancing are banned from the highest as such, and serve good food. But that has noth- - class of Paris restaurant. The true gourmet does I ing to do with French cooking or the "best plsce to not like his attention to be directed from the .serious dine in Paris. In France, people sleep in .hotels business of life by. expensive noises. How can you and frequently eat there, but they do not dine. possibly appreciate S filet de sole a la Lucullus or'a 72 while your senses n bottle" of Chateau Nearlv every Paris hotel serves a table l twice a day, for. those of its guests who want it, and are torn and twisted by the braying of violins? it i generally dull but respectable. No ane re- Such ideas are almost aa barbs reus in the eyes of gards it as food in any authentic sense of the word. the cultured diner as the practice indulged in by There are, of course, a number of luxurious hotels certain depraved persons of smoking while drinking that have quite remarkably good restaurants at- red wine. Puff a cigarette if you like in the middle tached to them which are open to the general publie. of a long dinner after the sorbet, or akoholised ice If you want to know their' names, start from the Roe this ia the moment the Norman chooses (quit wrongcavity by ly, between ourselves) to produce Royale and take a walk from the Place de la but do not da tie ; sau a of imagine that along the Champs Elyaees as far aa the Are taking glass In all of them, if you know what you can tell tw difference between a rare . deTriomphe. to order ah, that if or if you throw yourself on and a bottle of cheap claret from the grocer! ' the mercy of the ihaitre IF hotel who comes to your , round the corner, while you have cigar amoks on your vbo can tell you 'table with pencil and notebook and inquires: Nous palate. The great 0 - , Haat-Bno- djhote-mea- -- Com-cord- e Bur-gun- dy vine-taster-s, sa the reputation of its cuisine. In the Bus du Faubourg Montmartre, too, there are a number of unassuming restaurants of considerable reputation. They make a specialty of oysters and other shellfish, and signify the same by displaying baskets of these edibles on the sidewalk. In one, much frequented by the higher lights of the French press, the waiters work.in their shirtsleeves, but this is nos because they cannot afford edats. On the contrary they are all reputed tb own rows of houses" and if you are lucky enough to hit on the place ! mean, you will, . understand why. . Montmartre in The restaurants of are sn entirely different category from the others. Though several of them serve extremely good food, people go to them rather for the musk and dancing and general gayety than seriously to dine or sup.And it may be added that there is nothing very wicked about them nowadays except .their prices. As for and foreign the bouillons, beloved of the guide-book- s visitors, their reputation is vastly overdone. Too many tourists discover on of these popular dining rooms, haunt it during their entire stay and go borne believing they have been battening on French cookery. Today these restauranta are not even cheap and many of them never were worthy of being classed It ia far more amusing and higher than atoke-hoi-e. exciting for a visitor to experiment with soma, of .the modest restaurants which sre not run on the trust system. If your fancy is for chop and steaks and plain food, the various grills and bars around the Bourse are good, though not reposefuL F. G. FALLA. laaAfil Her Palber, la lm4, ksaaltb. Ci-Prt- skr Mrs. arler. Bonham-Carter to carry the attack Into the camp of . the oppo8itionandt jsbove all, into that of Labor, which at the time considered itself, the chosen of the gods and people. If was particularly daring, in an industrial constituency like Paisley, to atta(. the trade unions, but she did this remorselessly, ONDON, June 2. Present indications arethat assailing what she described as their merciless machinery, in whkh every man is a docile helpless 'Astor will not much longer enjoy the distinc, tion of being the only woman in the British House cotf. MR. ASQUITHS TIE. of Commons. She is likely soon to have there a femBonham-CarteBonham-Carter' Lady inine colleague, and keen rival, in Lady r, a policy was to keep in the the brilliant elder, daughter of background until nearly the end of her fathers meetings, and then, by a clever speech, send the Asquith, who has bee& invited by the Liberal execur audience away In (he best of humors. tive of South Edinburgh to be its candidate in the Mr. Asquith's most formidable antagonist was in the near future. A reason event of a a Labor leader named Biggar, the third candidate for this invitation is that the Liberal party, whose was a Coalition-Unioni- st named McKean.. Lady Bonham-Cartto one of the letters answer made been has waning prestige greatly strengthened by Mr. Vein : addresses in satirical the following Asquiths triumph a few weeks ago, ardently desires Mr., attacks McKean, i. my father to have a feminine representative in Parliament as for wearing a green tie some years ago. very bitterly an offset to Lady Astor, w ha 4aof causae, a Union-- 1 Hs says he wore this green tie as & sign of hfs synv 1st Even if this invitation should be declined. Lady pathies with the worst violences end outrages of Sinn Bonham-C- a rters appearance as a candidate for par- Fein. Wall, I think the fact that Mr. McKean has liament is not'likely to bp long delayed for she has concentrated his heavy artillery upon my fathers clothes shows that his stock in trade is getting pretty received invitations from seven different constituthreadbare. (Laughter.) Frankly, if this election is encies to stand in the Liberal interest whenever going to be fought on ties, wt are beaten. (Renewed an election takes place. Her record at Paisley in laughter.) Look at my father's tie tonight. (Laughcontributing to her fathers election revealed her as ter.) - Would it get him one vote? Not one. . (Loud one of tha greatest assets of her party at least so .laughter.) It. has probably lost us several already.. , Apd I should like to say tp Mr., McKean I dont far M its womenkind is concerned. need to explain it to you that my father haa never She is the wife of SirMaurke Bonham-Carte- r, used his ties as vehicles for his political opinions. who for six years was private secretary to her father, (Cheers.) He has other ways of expressing himself. H. H. Asquith, during the latters premiership, and Words are one of his methods, deeds are another. who more recently has been assistant secretary to . , (Cheers.) , was most of all successLady Bonham-Cartthe ministry of reconstruction. Her first engageful in appealing to the members of her sex, who ment had a (regie termination, her fiance, the Hon. voted for the first time' in the Paisley election. She Archibald Gordon, one of the sons of Lord Abercould meet women as a mother, as a daughter, and deen, having been killed in a motor accident That as qne who for years has studied the political and social conditions of this country. Yet she is modesty was some fifteen years ago. This tragic bereaveas regards her part in the Prisley ' fighl itself ment all but. broke the heart of Violet Asquith, as at a recent dinner in honor of Mr. Asquith, Speaking she then was, and it was believed that she would she said; My only function at Paisley was to unveil never marry. It was, accordingly, with some surmy father. prise that society heard in 1915 the news of her MATCH FOR LADY ASTOR? whom engagement to Sir Maurke Bonham-Carte- r, be sent to join Should Lady Bonham-Carte- r she married in the same year. Lady Astor inthe Hoijse of Commons, it will be Previous to the Paisley election. Lady Bonham-Cartinteresting to note their respective attitudes toward was known merely as an exceedingly clever each other. In their politkal convictions they are diametrically opposed, and oratorical duels between wotpan, in whose close companionship her famous them shoujd be a treat to listen to and witness. Of father, delighted f today her name is a household the two, the Englishwoman, as the result of her word synonymous with the great power woman has long association with her sagacious father, may" poo- -; obtained in politics. If any of Mr. Asquiths woman-- , sibly be tha better Informed, but Lady Astor mental alertness and ready wit make her rather deadly in kind was expected to play a prominent part in inas several Parliamentry veterans already debate, his famous was electorate of the it fluencing Paisley, have discovered with pained astonishment. - - wlfei the supposed original of Bensons Dodo and, . Unlike Lady Astor, one of a bevy of beautiful some say, of William .Watsons Woman With the American sisters including the supposed original of could not, Serpents Tongue, whose impending Autobiography the Gibson Girl, lady Bonham-Carteven by her most ardent admirer, be described as has aroused such interest. Curiously enough, though her mother A BORN ELECTIONEER. was the first wife of the Lsdy Bonham-CartAs It turned out, however, Mrs. Asquith was resembles the present Mrs. Asquith, strongly little raorethan a picturesque onlooker at Paisley; both being tall and fragile, with rather sharp feajt was her brilliant stepdaughter. Lady .Bonham-Carte- r, tures and little in the way of coloring. On the other hand. Lady Bonham-Carte- r, like Dodo" Aswho, to the astonishment of all, perhaps, but lot has of a quith, personal magnetism and haa spent her personal friends, revealed berself, from the out- her life among leaders of tbs worlds of society, set, as her fathers chief henchman, bar none. ' Her statecraft and letter. many speeches were characterized by real power comIt would not be surprising, by the way, if Mrs. bined with wit of the keenest, and as both canvasser Asquiths' nose had been put ever so little out 'of and political strategist shs was evidently, in her ele- joint by the extent to which she has been overshadowed, since Paisley, by her brilliant ment Within a few days she was famous throughPrevious to that now historic election, the famous out Great Britain and had made it evident that, if because of the general carwife of the her father won, it would be largely, if not principal- iosity as to the nature of her forthcoming Autoand the probability of her husbands ly, in consequence of her efforts and personality. biography Women in Great Britain have always proved again becoming an important factor in politics, was themselves capable electioneers. Men have yielded squarely in the center of the limelight. From this she has been dislodged by Lady to their persuasive charm, but their campaign hae position' and it is questionable if she exactly like Carter, always been conducted on passive lines. The fair R. canvasser, L e., wheedler of voters, has heretofore HAYDEN CHURCH. praised her champion and often presented many -arguments in bis favor, but it was. left for Lady (Copyright by the Edward Marshall Syndicate las.) British Colleague in; "Parliament for Viscountess Astor? bye-electi- er she-sai- er . er er good-lookm- er step-daught- er. -- |