Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-07-02 | Page 7 | ' Spookiest Dinner I Ever Served'

The Spookiest Dinn Dinner r I Ever Served i 1 J V As Related by hy Louis ilz the Waiter Wailer ti Jr I What With the Cocktails Turning to Cold Tea and the Capon iv Coming to Life in the Casserole the Experience of Serving the I Society of American Magicians Left Louis a Nervous Wr r 1 By Rowland Thomas table Mme Herrmann they called her That That- lady waved her hand and what what became of all nIl T VERY jERY early in the proceedings I 1 noticed that my those dry Martinis Monsieur all those cocktails V friend Louis was distinctly nervous became cold teal tea I know that my myself For those He lIe shook my my napkin out with hands that guests were very angry and they made me take a sin siD SID seemed to shrink and tremble and while I studied the from every glass card he kept fussing over the table He shifted sugar bowl and carafe and R twice over laid the silver minutely minutely t straight He even took occasion to move the bowl of flowers and as he did so 80 he stirred Its damp green depths t O with ith an investigative finger linger c J It is is not usual for my friend Louis Louie to be nervous When he served my soup I noticed that he was not merely nervous He was like one obsessed He o V had a haunted and unquiet eye o a aLouis Louis is a n good waiter I determined determined determined deter deter- mined to prove that I too was a good good i o lone one I did not say a word or ask a question So presently it all popped J I out f MONSIEUR MONSIEUR said my friend Louis all of a sudden being atrue a atrue o true born Parisian from rom somewhere inthe in inthe t the Balkan states he always addresses his tried and trusted clients as monsieur monsieur mon men Monsieur said Louis do you see lee me what a wreck I am If ever ver they have it here again I shall re r-r-re sign l I ly Have what Magicians I my friend Louis ex ez Last night they had here in our winter garden the annual dinner t of what they call the Society of Ma Monsieur r take my word for TN one gentleman's salad was a live snake it It was hoer r A From Froin lobster a pia plate te crawled a big bi red boiled To day I 1 am a wr-r-reck wr because I f Iam Iam fam am afraid of what I may see I cannot k keep p myself from I IMAGINE T MAGINE l my position monsieur after a mistake looking into all aU the dishes Last night we had here like that 1 I I could have sunk through the floor monsieur four our hundred of these magicians Four I started to gather the glasses up again to change hundred think of it I And they had not warned us them but that lady stopped me Never mind she We thought we were to serve a dinner to them like said perhaps they are not through cha changing ging themselves them them- any other dinner And what happened selves yet Lets Let's see She waved her hand again Well Wets monsieur went on my friend Louis here and monsieur and monsieur I saw it with these very eyes those eyes I those I-those those is what happened first firlit to me I served a tray of cock- cock tea cold-tea Martinis were all what all what do you think tails to the people at my table They were dry Martinis Mar Mar- Sweet cider I tinis tints every one of them From the service bar I The table was in an uproar They all aU said it was waa brought them I them I myself There was a 8 lad lady at the my fault One gentleman was so angry that he stuck I j. j his fork through his 1 wrist I saw it go Ip Ir that f soup soup- fou u ou through myself mon men re e And it stayed 1 there Only it did not bleed bleeds I And anon beside him said If I cannot have a a cocktail I must have something else to shah shar sha appetite What d do you think he ho did mot mo He took a a. handful of needles from his i r rand and he swallowed them 1 J j But that was nothing monsieur For Hi lit Hithe the next table it waa was worse than that Hei Het H l serving soup And all ail at once I heard a voi voice him Waiter do you call this a wa way to co 5 serve ve-m ve at Look into it hereafter please before you brit me t What do you think had happened Mon that hot soup soup soup-it it was consomme royale royale foci fou fis fish were swimming all alive I saw th the self Henri caw aw them Everybody saw them went away then He did not come back H He Ire J come back yet I do not think he ever will c corn com J J 80 it started monsieur A Arian And Ari d n an hour was over we rj d j know what would happen to that thai next A gentleman found pearl his hie olives In the middle of a I another found a te to telar tolar lar bill HE KEPT IT One 41 man tried to eat his salad and tr ti he ate of it the higher and higher piling up on his bis plate f For piece de resistance a y poulet de Philadelphia en cassert of our specialties To the heat head monsieur le Ie chef brought it up J r rHe He was all aU smiling It was cook turn He lifted the cover cover and and that capon stood up ir it casserole and crowed at him i How shall I tell you all In one gentleman was a small live snake From a plate crawled a 1 boiled lobster and tipped over a vase of flowers The champagne popped all right but wh started to pour it there was nothing to pour All night long it kept up so Magicians I I one son SOh If that boy said to me he was going goinga a magician do you know what I would would take him out and rown r him I is how much I think of magicians They me a a. wr r II 1