THAT SMUGGLED SILK By the Old Lobbyist


Copyrighted by The Observer Publishing Co., 1902

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=The Onlooker=

Vol. I MAY 28, 1902 Part 2




=The Casual Club=


On last Thursday evening the Casual Club was gathered about a corner
table in Sherry's. The great room was beautiful, the music brilliant,
the setting and table appointments magnificent, and the dinner all
that might be asked. There came but one thing to grieve the tempers of
our members--the service was slip-shod, inattentive, vile. One wonders
that so splendid an arrangement should be left unguarded in the most
important particular of service; that Sherry, when he has done so
much, should permit himself to be foiled of a last result by an idle