n printed on
page 48 has been made from one of these in the possession of the author.

The picture shows the interior of the Blue Bottle, where Kolschitzky
opened the first coffee house in Vienna. The hero-proprietor stands in
the foreground pouring a cup of the beverage from an oriental coffee
pot, and another is suspended from the coffee-house sign that hangs over
the fireplace. In the fire alcove a woman is pounding coffee in a
mortar. Men and women in the costumes of the period are being served
coffee by a Vienna _maedchen_.

[Illustration: MADAME DU BARRY AND HER SLAVE BOY ZAMORE--PAINTING BY
DECREUSE]

The painters Marilhat, Descamps, and de Tournemine have pictured cafe
scenes; the first in his "Cafe sur une route de Syrie", which was shown
at the Salon of 1844; the second in his "Cafe Turc", which figured at
the Exposition of 1855; and the third in his "Cafe en Asia Mineure",
which received honors at the Salon of 1859, and attracted attention at
the Universal Exposition of 1867.

A decorative panel designed for the buffet at the Paris Opera House by
S. Mazerolles was shown at the Exposition of 1878. A French artist,
Jacquand, has painted two charming compositions; one representing the
reading room, and the other the interior, of a cafe.

Many German artists have shown coffee manners and customs in pictures
that are now hanging in well known European galleries. Among others,
mention should be made of C. Schmidt's "The Sweets Shop of Josty in
Berlin", 1845; Milde's "Pastor Rautenberg and His Family at the Coffee
Table", 1833; and his "Manager Classen and His Family at the Afternoon
Coffee Table", 1840; Adolph Menzel's "Parisian Boulevard Cafe", 1870;
Hugo Meith's "Saturday Afternoon at the Coffee Table"; John Philipp's
"Old Woman with Coffee Cup"; Friedrich Walle's "Afternoon Coffee in the
Court Gardens at Munich"; Paul Meyerheim's "Oriental Coffee House"; and
Peter Philippi's (Dusseldorf) "Kaffeebesuch."

At the Exposition des Beaux Arts, Salon of 1881, there was shown P.A.
Ruffio's picture, "Le cafe vient au secours de la Muse" (Coffee comes to
the aid of the Muse), in which the graceful form of an oriental ewer
appears.

The "Coffee House at Cairo," a canvas by Jean Leon Gerome (1824-1904)
that hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, has been much
admired. It shows the interior of a typical oriental coffee house with
two men near a furnace at the left preparing the beverage; a man seated
on