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CHOPSTICK DINNERS. A FAD WITH WOULD BE BOHEMIANS IN NEW YORK. Chinese Restaurants There Tolerate a Free and Easy Etiquette, and Ev erybody Does Just About as He or Sbe Pleases. In the last few years a surprisingly large number of Chinese restaurants have made their appearance in up town districts in New York. The tawdry outward decorations of red and blue lights and huge gilt Chinese characters are in every case the same. The same, too, are the unattractive entrances, the walls decorated with colored pictures of pretty Chinese girls and marvelous ' specimens of landscapes, the little ta bles covered with white oilcloth, the general dilapidation of the establish ment. Nothing about them ^eems at tractive, and yet these places thrive, and their number increases with aston ishing rapidity. The reason is not far to seek if one is at all familiar with the facts. There are several characteris tics of the Chinese restaurant which recommend it highly to certain classes and seem to indicate that its popularity is not a mere fad. In the first place it should be under stood that most of these places are really what they are supposed to be, eating houses carried on under Chinese management. TJie- cooks are invaria bly true Celestials, and in only a few cases are the proprietors Americans. The food is prepared, therefore, accord ing to the most approved methods of the Middle Kingdom, with the result that in cheapness and savoriness (if you like it) it can easily outclass simi lar places run by American cooks. The Chinese is a master of the art of mak ing palatable dishes out of next to nothing or rather a little of everything. Not even the French cook can rival him. The insipidity of cheap . chop- houses and the sameness of the dairy lunch counters are thus escaped by frequenters of these restaurants. More over, in spite of appearances the food is prepared in an extremely cleanly manner. No one is debarred from en tering the kitchen, and a visit thither sends one back with renewed appetite to the untidy eating room. So many who while possessed of a small share of this world’s goods still affect “sport iness” frequent the restaurant for its cheapness and grow to enjoy the highly flavored dishes. There is also a free and easy atmos phere about the Chinese eating house which attracts many would be “Bohe mians” as well as a goodly share of a class below the lowest grades of the city’s many graded Bohemia. Visitors loll about and talk and laugh loudly. Wheu the waiter is wanted, some one emits a shrill yell which brings an an swering whoop from the kitchen, fol lowed sooner or later by a little Chi nese at a jog trot. Any one who feels like it may. stroll into the kitchen and try a little pigeon English on the cook. The proprietor will teach anybody to use the chopsticks and roar with laugh ter over tl*e failures of the novice. Ev erybody does as be or she pleases with in certain very elastic bounds. The limit is reached sooner in some places than in others, for while some of the houses are before midnight at least perfectly well conducted others are of more than questionable respectability. It is curious and interesting to note that under American management the tone of these places is lower than when the Chinese are in sole control. These new up town places are not so good, either in a moral or a culinary way, as those down in Chinatown. It is usual to speak as if Mott and Pell streets were the city’s sink of iniquity, and so they are in some respects, but there are no Chinese restaurants in the neighborhood as disreputable as one or two up town. The clientele of the down town places is above suspicion as a rule. Chinese drop in for their meals, and dwellers from up town come either from curiosity or because they have learned to like good Chinese cooking. Up town the bills of fare are more lim ited. “Yockaman,” “chop suey” and “chowman” are the pieces de resist ance. They answer the purpose cer tainly, for 25 cents’ worth of some kinds of chop suey served with rice will make a toothsome dish for two people. Tea is served free of charge, and the quantity is not limited. But no oue should judge the Celestials’ cu linary skill by thesgfup town houses. Many of the guests in these restau rants come regularly. Frequently men AM women come with pails to buy the food and take it home. Negroes are in disproportionately large numbers. They seem to like the Chinese, and indeed the noise in the kitchen reminds one of the similar condition of southern kitch ens under negro management. How ever solemn the Chinese may seem to be in public, he is a cheerful creature in his own kitchen. Talk and laughter, even music during “off” hours, float out to the dining room. All the servants seem ready to break into smiles at the smallest provocation. They are always ready to exchange jests with their pa- care what happens so long as he is left unmolested. He likes everything to be slipshod and merry.—New York Trib une. Victoria and Dickens. Literary celebrities, as a rule, were not those who attained to any high degree of personal favor at the hands of Queen Victoria, but she paid Charles Dickens a delicate compliment. Dick ens, who, by the way, in his youthful days was devoured by a grand passion for the youthful queen, was invited when at the climax .of his fame to dine at Windsor castle. He was after dinner presented by the queen with a 'copy of her book “Tour In the. 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