People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1893 — PEOPLE WHO EAT. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE WHO EAT.

Outdoor Dinner Parties Popular Among World’s Fair Visitors. ' Dining in the open air is one of the enjoyments of the fair. Never before has anyone seen so many people eating in open nooks and corners as may be seen almost any day, except Sunday, at the great exposition. The weather just uow is peculiarly agreeable for this sort of gastronomic entertainment There is usually a cool, refreshing breeze from the lake which seelhs to act on the system as a tonic and “appetizer,” like a cocktail or a glass of sherry before dinner. The visitors who brifag their lunches are legion, and they seem to be eating at all hours and in every imaginable spot whore seats can be found. They are nearly always in family groups, oblivious to their surroundings, and fully bent or. taking solid comfort They carry their lunch, as a rule, in boxes or cheap wooden baskets, which can be discarded when the contents have been swallowed. The live stock pavilion, with its great amphitheater of shady seats, now that it is not occupied, furnishes a most desirable lunching spot for visitors from the country. Over along the lake shore, wherever benches or boxes are foufad to sit upon, many lunch parties are always to be seen. The terraces at the

tops of buildings, the porches and veran das of state buildings, the shady corners under the peristyle, and above all the green spots on the wooded island, offer special attractions to the picnic parties. The scenes at these places between twelve and two o’clock are most diverting and sometimes quite amusing. The impromptu tables are filled with all sorts and conditions of people. A party of four, two pretty women and a couple of men insummer attire, will be seen next to a group of students in queer costume with flowing cravats. Near by a couple who have no time to observe their surroundings will be busily engaged with each other. But most of those who are eating engage in animated conversation about the marvels of the fair all around them, making gestures, pointing out certain buildings which they want to inspect more completely, and sometimes laughing aloud at a witticism offered by some vivacious member of the party.—Chicago inter Ocean.