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Show SNAKES ON DINNER TABLE Novel Banquet at Philadelphia in Honor of Curator of Bronx Zoo Startles the Guests. A score of writhing snakes, one of them more than five feet long, created terror among a quantity of supper guests at Cafe L'Aiglon. Fifteenth and Chestnut streets, says the Pliila delphia Public Ledger. The occasion was a "snake" dinner, given for Dr. Raymond L. Ditmars, curator of the Bronx zoo. The snakes were placed upon the 'V.nner table in a glass receptacle recep-tacle from which they could easily have escaped. When they appeared, several women at nearby tables, not knowing that they were tame, hastily departed. But the snakes were not alone j There was a large jar of frogs and ; toads of many strange varieties, that j kept the cafe frequenters interested with an undertone of croakings. And the center of the table was occupied by a fern filled with chirping Insects known throughout Japan, whence thej came, as "walking sticks." The menu was arranged in keeping with the decorations. There were, ol course, eels and frogs' legs. There was a "Bronx Zoo salad," 'which was full of mystery, even to the guests, he-cause he-cause the ingredients were not revealed. re-vealed. But the most peculiar dish of al! fas porcupine steak. |