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"The artists and writers were the first Americans to make / themselves at home in this amusing Parisian resort. (_The Old / Café Martin._) And it was here, too, that women of the better / class first tasted the delights of café life. It was considered / quite a daring thing in the late eighties for be-cloaked and / be-diamonded women of Fifth Avenue to sit here and sip their / after-dinner coffee. " / _Vanity Fair._
One of those queer, artistic dives, / Where funny people had their fling. / Artists, and writers, and their wives -- / Poets, and all that sort of thing. / Here, too, to view the vulgar herd / And sip the daring demi-tasse -- / Be-cloaked, be-diamonded, be-furred -- / Came women of the better class.