The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-05-21
Edwards Bad Luck.
From the Louisville courier-Journal.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.l
Bloward who formerly took lunch Mt
Johns does not go there now. He has
quit Johns and withdrawn his patron
age entirely from the house. Bl0ward
claims that John did not treat him right
He says he used to 90 there for lunch
regularly, and for the first two or three
months John was all blandness toward
him, and ii there was an epicurean side
mOrsel slowed away out of sight of the
common lunch eaters he was sure to
come in for his portion. But of late Bio
ward had noticed GOODNESS i'm Johns
hospitality, which he is unable to ac-
count for You see," said Bloward,
IL am not person as will stand drink
ing all day about house. That is not
the genteelest thing, and it amt business.
It's well enough to be around reg'lar i'm
the forenoon and take suthin with a
friend in a soshel way. / allus do that.
| allus make it pint to take suthin
with friend when friend asks me. |
am a gentleman as will never go back
ward like a crab on friend. You know
that. You know you can't pint out in
the almanac the day when ever went
back on you. But it amt the quality of
my style to ask my friends to drink too
often, because that would be clearly
leadin' them astray altogether too far.
GA man is lible to go too fur with Il
philanthropy. understand the philosO-
ply of the doctrine clean through.
have spent time to study it and am
satisfied it's so. And so, many times, /
have gone i'm for lunch and drinkt moth
ing. Done it often. Done it for months
and months steady. But / don't go to
Johns now because things amt strictly
cordial in there any more. / can notice
mighty difference in Johns ways.
There has been an awful shrinkage in
his hospitality toward me somehow
'rOther."
"Pshaw there is a big difference.
Why, it used to be
"Plate soup, Mr.. Bloward-turtle
soup, very fine-plate soup? Some of
this beautiful rare beef? Have a potato
wait, take another one and have some
gravy-there! Mickey do you hear me,
Mickey? bring out frogs leg for Mr..
Bloward. Oh, have one, do. Take an
other piece of beef-NO Well, here are
some nice lambs fries let us help you
to some. do wish you would taste this
salad"
4" Why, / tell you," continued Bio
ward, that is the system by which they
used to pay attention to me in there.
allus got the top of the various pots.
But, say, can notice big difference
in the cordiality. The hospitality got to
be mighty shrunk and loose, and towards
the last Johns eatin' got dreadfully
transparency thin by degrees.
First, l noticed that the little side
dishes-those little extra tit-bits, you
know, which used to be kept warm foI
got to be very scarce, and then, by
and by, John didn't appear to insist any
too cordial on me taking a second piece
of beef and, as general thing, if got
hold of an additional 'tater, had to ASK
for it; and, egad after awhile it got Sc
/ had to ask for everything, and finally
fall back on the standard beans and liver
and cold-slaw. So, as l said, have quit
him completely. can take joke a.
long as anybody, but l am not a gentle
mani am not gentleman as car
stand too much bad treatment. No,
can't go in there, but I have got time t.
go with you round to Ben's. Ben ha'
Just opened and set out mighty square
lunch. Certainly, / can't refuse you
but as for going back to Johns, why
that's agin' my principles"