Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-05-10
MR. WEITMARSH's LATEST.
Re has his Meals Served by Waite.
OIL Roller Skates.

I
TO have the walters in his hotel, do
their waiting on roller skates, and
he was so pleased with the idea,
| that he determined to adopt that
plan himself. The noise was the
greatest objection 10 the idea, but
lac had a rubber tire put on the
wheels of the skates, land Overcamc
that difficulty. He secured the scrv-
ices of "A skating expert TO drill his
waiter, and after about two months
the waiter WIS pronounced ready
for service. On receipt OF this infor-
nation Mr.. Whitmarsh determined
to give dinner to Il few friends
and inauguratc the rolling skate
waiting service.
On the day appointed some ten or
dozen guests took their seats ut
the table, and neatly attircd
waiter rolled gracefully through the
open door, holding tray, OH which
stood Il soup turccn. He made the
circuit of the table, so all the guests
could see the performance and de-
posting the tray on side table,
placed the turccn before the hos
tess to the intense delight of Whit
marsh. That soup was the most
delicious any of that party had
ever tasted, some of the ladies going
so far as to pronounce it heavenly,
and Mr.. WhitmarSh was over
whclmed with compliments on his
having introduced this new and cX-
ccllent application of the roller
skate.
The plates being removed, the
fish was brought in, the waiter curl
ing easily around the room on one
leg, and deposited the dish on the
table. Whitmarsh was SO charmed at
the success of his idea, that he gave
the waiter sign to show the guests
some ornamental skating, which
the waiter, understanding the sign,
proceeded TO do. Placing il dish of
stewcd tomatoes on his salvcr, the
waiter dashed around the table with
one foot trailing airily behind him,
and singing out a stout, dignificd
gentleman, whom the other guests
addressed as Colonel, he flew
straight at him, and with a scien-
tifc turn of the foot whirlcd sud
denly around and presented the
dish with an inimitablc bow to the
Colonel.
1t was beautifully done, but the
bow was just trihe too deep, for
just as the dish got in the proper
position for the Colonel to help
himself, the walters feet shot out
behind him, and he went down like
IA flash, his mouth striking the Col
onel's head, and the dish of toma-
toes dropping bottom side up in the
Colonels lap. The waiter being well
provided with teeth, the Colonel's
head was severely cut. The blood
gushed from the wound and
and strcamcd down his head. But
this the Colonel did not know. He
saw the dish of tomatoes coming
into his lap and tried to dodge it,
by jumping suddenly to one side.
He did not avoid the tomatoes, but
he plunged against the arm of old
lady next him, who was i'll the act
of taking sip of claret. The col
lision was SO severe as to knock the
lady's false teeth out of her mouth,
and they fell Gathering into the
nearly empty glass, startling her so
that she reeled over in a dead faint.
the Colonel going down with her.
AS he fell, his foot kicked leaf
out of the table, which was already
strained with its weight of good
things, and the table collapsed.
The dishes, plates and glasses, all
came together in a heap with a
noise more easily imagined than
described. The alarmed guests
pushed back their chairs, several of
them so suddenly as to go on over
backwards. Others of them lost
their balance and plunged wildly
forward on to the pile of broken
china, vegetables, gravy, spilled
wine, roast game, presenting to the
gaze of the few fortunate enough to
retain their seats, Kaleidoscope
view ofnapkins, table cloth, striped
stockings, low quartered shoes,
Colonies, old ladies without teeth