Compiled by London swaminathan

Date: 19 April 2016

Post No. 2738

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Eccentricity Anecdotes

There was a tale current in Park Row, how Richard Harding Davis, finding a stranger at his favourite table at Delmonicos, was supposed to have remarked
I beg your pardon My name is R H D and you are in my chair.
Do not mind, replied the usurper.
My name is Jove. Many swear by me. If you are one, sit down.

Xxx

Turkish Bath

My rubber, said Nat Godwin, describing a Turkish bath that he once had in Mexico, was a very strong man. He laid me on a slab and kneaded me and punched me and banged me in a most emphatic way. When it was over and I had gotten up, he came behind me before my sheet was adjusted, and gave me three resounding slaps on the bare back with the palm of his enormous hand.
What in blazes are you doing, I gasped, staggering.
No offences, sir, said the man.
It was only to let the office know that I was ready for the next bath. You see, sir. The bell is out of order in this room.
Xxxx

“s” cake and “S” cake!!!

Into the bakery shop, the most famous and costly of its kind in New York, came a customer with an order for a cake to be baked in the shape of the letter ‘s’. He insisted on various details of its decoration and specified that it must be ready by a certain date.

The day before the deadline the customer dropped around and found that his cake was finished and being decorated
Oh, this is all wrong, he said, flying into rage.
You have baked it in the shape of a capital ‘S’? I wanted it especially to be a small ‘s’.
The whole thing will have to be done over, and you will have to have it by tomorrow anyway.

He created such a fuss that the apologetic manager said that they would make every effort to satisfy him, would make it over felt that it had been a natural mistake, but were willing to accommodate him, and so and so forth.

The following day the customer returned and found his lower case cake decorated in its final details as he desired.
That is fine, he said much mollified.
That is just right.
He drew out his wallet and paid for the cake.
Now sir, said the proprietor, where shall it be sent or do you wish to take it with you?
Oh, that is all right, said the customer, with a wave of his hand,
I will eat it here.

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