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Show HE HAD GERMOPHOBIA. New York Mall and Express. Not all who dine in the cafe of a certain cer-tain uptown hotel fare sumptuously. Soniff search painfully fur the cheapest articles on the liill of fare, starving their bodies for the hotlsfaction it Is to their pride to dine In the hu'int, of luxury, it is not, however, an attenuated pocket-book, pocket-book, but an exaggerated--fir of hostile and predatory germs, that makis one patron pa-tron eat with such caution and circumspection circum-spection as to rob him even of such comfort com-fort as most of his fellows would take in a 10-cent luncheon. "Two poached eggs," was tho order he gave in one of the. Fifth avenue hotels. "Just drop them In clean boiling water. Doli't let them cook. Take them out before be-fore they absorb the impurities lit the water, and d aln all the water off." Then he scoured his plate with his napkin, nap-kin, washing his knife, fork and spoon in a t;las of water, and warily approached ap-proached his poached eg. Instead of bread he Insisted on crnckers. and dusted each one off with his napkin. The waiter brought him French fried potatoes. "I must liuvc whole boiled potatoes," 1 he insisted. "No other potatoes are clean." With this meal he. had a alas of boiled milk, brought in hot and cooled by placing; plac-ing; the glass in a bowl of cracked Ice. Thus with fear and trepidation the victim of gcrmophobl ate In one of the most elaborate public dining-rooms of New York. v |