Show CAFES CarES THAT TEAT PAY PAT Foreigners Spend Spen Fortunes For Pot ForG 5 c Grand G nd Dinners in Paris Emma li Bullet In Brooklyn Eagle Paris It Is evident from what one sees on the grand boulevards in the pla as s where people dine out of doors In the Bois Bols de Boulogne that there are areno areno no homes in France The French rench lin un linger linger unger ger at these places for hours at the cafes over a glass of absinthe wine or beer and only go home in the early hours of the morning after aCter a a prolonged dinner at the Chateau de Madrid orthe Chalet du Cycle I dont see how ow nice Uce women can sit before a cafe In the street drinking said a Brooklyn tour tourist tourist tourist the other day In the first place said I more than of the people you see out ott outside o t side of cafes are foreigners Then what more harm is there to drink out outside outside ut side In a shady place while looking at atthe atthe atthe the passersby than to drink Inside Besides we must always respect cus customs customs customs toms when they are not Immoral There is nothing immoral in a wife or a daughter sitting at a cafe with her hus bus husband husband band and father indeed the very fact of having women sitting near him may prevent a man i an from taking too much So s itIs with the dining places they are almost entirely supported by foreign foreigners ers firs who like to dine In those beautiful ful places overgrown with magnificent flowers and at tables which are made artistically ornate with the rarest of blossoms and electric lights shaded with transparent colored shades sh des while listening to a band playing captivating music You say sa the French do not go to these places to dine Indeed they do all who can afford it They The all do In summer when there Is a birthday or the anniversary of a mar marriage marriage marriage dinner or when the wife tired of getting gettine up her own menus asks her husband to take her to the Chateau de do Madrid Le te Doyens or to the Chalet du Cycle That is a glorious outing for her she puts on her prettiest light dress her best hat and It Is delightful to see her enjoy her dinner You will often In those thos places find long tables for ten or twelve and around them grandmother grandfather husband and wife wiCe children and relations hav hay ing the best of ot times observing some family anniversary Those dinners out of doors are one of the fascinations of Paris and one of the most harmless ones 01 It is probably In Paris that the most extravagant dinners take place Not long lang since In the Figaro there were aeve surprising accounts of dinner parties In which money is lavished for which the the cost of the menus of the wines ines of the fruit and the arrangement of the tables almost reminds us of the wanton extravagances extravaganCes 1 gances of the Roman emperors Not Jong since at a long table cov coy covered covered ered ored with orchids at the Chateau de do Madrid sat eleven persons for whom I the host paid a bill of 1200 Upon be In log ins asked what the he guests would eat and drink for that price the proprietor of the establishment said But per head is not much when there were worth of flowers on the table when n hen the wines vines served were from 10 to 20 O a bottle and the peaches given at dessert cost 3 apiece But I nut put up a dinner once where the fish coming from Russia cost The table was covered with a garland earland of lilies of the valley which cost 20 o cents centa a twig But the man who presented the big biggest treat eest bills was Emile who used to be the maitre at and who is the founder of the tryon lub In London to which went the Prince of Wales For the of or the club there was a dinner of twelve cost however who spent the most at dinners was a man who nho went by bj the name of the king of restaurants King I Milan of Servin Servia He once gave a dinner for five persons which cost him 1200 1201 The menu was the following a la Ia Russe Potage Borche Consomme a la Russe flu Sells Felts de chevreuil a la Ia Cumberland a la lit Pompadour gras a Ja la Canard roll roU de Rouen a la Ia nn et t cailles aux au x s a la Ia Souffle a l de do fruits Cafe liqueurs Or wide fine Champagne do Cha t I 1 1834 1874 Grand Porto Porte 1815 de Madere Mad re 1811 Chateau I Margaux 1848 I IThe The menu was nas of royal blue satin fringed ed I and nd cost st There were w were re three bottles bottled of each ach kind kl d of or wine Ine that cost The viands cost The table was ornamented with white mus muscat muscat muscat cat grape vine and which cost SIO 10 a pound The r om in which the dinner took place was v s s ornamented with 1000 worth orth of lilies of the valley whiCh the king kins himself bought The dinner cost about 2000 King Milan gave royal pourboires 1 and he never looked at anything but the total sums of the bills and arm settled without making the least remark One of the most striking souvenirs of the maitre Emile was the experience e he had with a little plainly dressed modest looking man who took two meals a a day at No one knew who he was as it was af afterwards a afterwards found out that he gave a false alse name He said ald he was a mer merchant merchant merchant chant In butter and at the restaurant he lie went by the name of or marchand de beurre He ate very little HUle but a broth made especially for or him was vas served of which he took only a few spoonfuls The maitre then gave save him one shrimp a a fillet of sole an entire tenderloin of which he ate the very very smallest possible piece a roast chicken of which he took a particular part In French called two tender leaves of lettuce with one radish In tn the th middle and and no more than three grapes taken from the best bunch of the best 1 est grapes that could be found Black coffee a bottle of the best wine one of or the best champagne with which he merely wet his lips The bill was as 24 a a meal As he went out of the restaurant he handed 18 15 to the maitre who put the viands on his lila plate for he refused refuse to serve him himself self neif elf Then he gave save 4 to the waiter 2 to the lady at the counter then n 1 1 to the fhe chasseur who opened and closed the door 9 w I 0 I IThe The maitre sometimes went wenton on errands for the little man and brought his cigars He was stopping at the Grand hotel hote l and the head wait walt waiter waltr er r went there to have the bills paid When he presented them the little littleman littleman man would open a drawer of t a bureau which was filled with packages of bank banknotes banknotes banknotes notes and gold and silver sUver lying pell hell mell and then say to the maitre Take your money and the marchand de beurre always refused to verify the bills One day this pe peculiar peculiar peculiar culiar man disappeared red and was never neverseen neverseen neverseen seen again ag ln lnA A dinner droner was given ghen at the tryon club by Joseph Gudula Gud la an Eng English English English lish solicitor who sho had won a colossal suit against the t e city of London There were vere several persons at the table among whom were several ministers and Lord Rothschild The cost of the dinner was It is often wondered what the waiters waiters wait ers era think of ot serving such dinners for they naturally come from families to Whom Wham 1 i represents a large sum sumei They ei soon get used to it said the them maitre m l of a famous Paris res restaurant when questioned on the sub subject subJect jest The pourboires are sometimes very large A lord who does things royally will think nothing of tipping ea h waiter with 20 The grand dukes dulces of or Russia after a dinner r of or five covers always tip the thewalt waiters walt rs with 60 0 or 70 An American who took t ok his meals at It al alWays always Ways left a bill of or 1000 francs for f r the waiters At the wedding breakfast of the Marquis de X at the cost was and the six ix walters waiters were tipped One of the celebrated dinners or ot the exposition was as given Iven at the Ritz Rite hotel by the American man who is known jis as a f the king of tramways There were bout thirty of his compatriots C at the table and the repast was said to have cost S j 0 t tOne One of the dining halls haUs had been converted Into a grotto of f the north pole Mountains of ice were built bunt up made luminous and transparent with electric light Pine trees were planted there here and there covered with frost and snow A white cloth was drawn over the floor which was strewn with ith arti artificial artificial artificial frost which cracked cra ed under the feet Next to this strange dining room a part of the Ritz garden had been made Into a tropical spot sp t There great palms and cocoanut trees had been planted which were joined with gar sar garlands lands of rare flowers In which cages hung that were the homes herpes of thou thousands thousands thousands sands of or birds of ot rare plumage Col Cot Colored Colored ored electric lights lit up this strange tropical landscape Coffee cordial and cigars were neve served revved here and the guests eat sat in easy chairs listening to the This American had a suite of rooms at the Ritz with four I windows fronting the place Vendome j I for which he paid a day dayI Another dinner which took place dur during durIng during ing the exposition was given at the i I I to the rajah of by a wealthy Englishman wham the rajah rajab had asked to a aUger tiger hunt the I year before As he lie entered the dining room the rajah was dazzled by the 1 I magnificence of the decorations and the table Great palm palin trees were cov coy covered covered ered eyed with garlands of ot orchids birds bird sang in the branches a fountain I played In the center ce ter of the table in Iv InI L j I the middle of a large la e basin of water wate in Which all aU kinds of luminous fish fist fishI I were swimming An Ap invisible orches orchestra I tra tm during the dinner played 1 soft mel melodies melodies odies as if heard from afar Just Imagine the rajah In Ia his bright brighi I Oriental robes robe sitting amid such splendor splendor I Idor dor 00 An American went into one of the th I large restaurants of the Grand boule boulevard boulevard vard yard one day and said saidI I r came from America on purpose io h taste all 1111 your wines every one of them But I do not want any bottle to cost costless costless cue I less than 20 He then took two meals meat meata a day at the restaurant and to ex cx exhaust exI haust all aU the kinds of wines in his cel eel cellar cellar I lar mr the restaurant keeper made the thi experience last a month and a half halt I The caterer perhaps could not swear swea that he did not several times have the theman th man taste the same wine twice I In one of the Paris restaurants a aI I Hungarian once ate 20 worth of Iced strawberries for his dessert An Englishman one day da went to the thi desk of the same restaurant and said Here is which I leave In your you desk deek to Ito be certain to t have the best bes t cognac during the time of my ray stay In inI h hI i Paris He went twice a day for his hi hiI i I I cognac he be also brought friends with I him and In ID a month having drunk all al the cognac he was entitled to he left let t tand and was nas as seen no nomore more Maxims is whore whEre the most cham dham champagne champagne Is drunk Men and women there they do away with over war bottles a year coit about Of all alln e people PC at Maxims those thos who can n drink the tile most are the Rus Ru Russians RuI I One day da a Russian drank alone aba alonea a double Jeroboam that is one of those thee Immense bottles that at contain eight or ordinary ordinary ordinary bottles of ot champagne One can ii often see a Russian empty five fie bot bet bottles bottles beta ties of champagne from tiova midnight to 3 a In the morning After Atter the Russians the men who can cai drink the most are the Americans the th tha i Belgians Then come the English the th a i Germans and last come the French FrenchI j The farther south you go 10 the more so sober sobet I I ber bet you find the men The Italians Italian J love Jove fresh water the Spaniards arf arp arnot I Inot not drinkers |