Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-03-08
DOGS LUNCHES.
PSmpered Boarders who Do Not Eat at
the First Table.
Detroa Free Press.

PsmPered Boarders Who Do Not Eat at
the First Table.
Detroa Free Press.
At 9 swell boarding house in this city
which has G reputation for heightened and
select circles, there is peculiar feature OF
the table-talk, which, to the uniuitiated, is a
great mystery, and TO superstitious person
would seem to indicate the presence OF q
third party unseen to mortal eyes. At some
tsble-there is scarcely one exempt-ths
conversation will run as follows:
heY'
"iethum, oh, yethum; they done ready
down stairs"
The new boa-der says to himself: $50
they have little girl; must be an invalid
or she wouldn't get sweetbreads;" and he
thinks no more OF the matter unless he be-
comes permanent" when he learns, to
his intense disgust, perhaps, that Nellie is q
water spaniel, who never sees the inside OF
the dining.room.
There is one table where dainty little
lady appears, carrying on her arm silk
work bag, tied With blue ribbons. looked
into 1t once, and let me tell you what |
found. She had forgotten it and it hung on
q chair back. The inside was lined with
oiled silk, and these fragments were drop.
ped gently in: A sausage, a round Of mar
row bone aud one cookey This was dinner
for blaek-eyed French poodle, with fleece
as white as snow.
But there was beautiful widow came
there to bOa-d-young and rich, with velvet
dresses and diamonds galore. She was the
admiration Of every man, and the envy OF
every woman, because she got the juicy
mouthful of porterhouse steak and real
cream in her coffee. And at every meal
she held up lovely diamond-ringed finger
to the waiter and said warningly;
Don't forget the coffee and toast for lit
sle Minnie.
Too much trouble to bring the child to
the table. suppose" growled the cynic.
Is little Minnie old enough to feed her
selfr' asked the spoony young man with
the Mary -had,s-little-lamb voice.
''Oh, no, the sweet thing! She is a year
old, but / Just love to feed her" and she
proceeded to cut half pound of tenderloin
steak into half inch bits.
Does she ever choke herself" asked the
cynic, CHANGING wolfshly at the steak.
she did once" said the pretty widow
with piteous expression OF countenance.
Poor little darling Ter collar was too tight
end she was chained up"
Good gracious, woman!' calculated the
Mortified cynic, do you mean to say that
you chain up your own child?'
Who said anything about childH asked
the widow, beginning to cry. "Its my dear,
precious skye terrier my dog, 81"
The cynic left the house that day to re-
turn no more.
There was one very stout elderly lady
who used to board there who regularly laid
aside tid.bits until pyramid of broken food
rested beside her, AMI RECALLED the eyes Of
the other boarders. These she finally swept
into napkin with the brief explanatory
remark:
"For my dogs lunch"
So far there has never been but one man
who took lunch from the table, and in
that case the dog was cat, and, singularly
enough, called Tom. He always carried a
regular meal-meat, bread and pudding
home to Tom. The only explanation he
ever gave was this
There's only me and my wife in the
family, but We keep boarder for his com
pany.
1t took the landlady long time to sp.
preciate the situation OF affairs She could
not understand why one lady put cookies up
her sleeve prior to leaving the Dining
room, while another surreptitiously slipped
a rib of roast pork into her pocket, or why
| the pocket OF another one bulged so remark.
ably. The good lady did not care to cater
| TO the canine tribe and supposed that IN
refusing them room in the house they were
eHeetuslly disposed OF,
But she was never more mistaken, as the
small, mysterious package by the side OF
| plates often testifes. 1t is no uncommon
thing to see piece Of meat sliding of a
plate as if string were attached to it. In
| quick succession piece of bread will fol
| low. No one asks any questions; 1t IS a
foregone conclusion that Nellie or Minnie
or Ponto is waiting in locked room for
this commissary department.
One lady had boarded at the house for
some time, and no one had ever suspected
that she kept dog; its voice was week and
when il went out for air and exerciseit was
| hidden under the shawl or cloak OF its Sc
| date mistress. But one day she let the cat
out of the bag, or, rather, the dog escaped
| from the room, and with the reckleSsness OF
ignorance went straight into the sale a
mango in search OF his mistress. 1t was the
hour of high noon. Some one informed the
lady that dog was looking for her. She
could not-would not-disown it, but walk
ing maiestically from the room she went to
the landlady herself
MY dog is in the dining room" she
began.
"Whatp interrupted the scandalized mis-
tress of the house, "a dog! and in my din
ing-room" =,
"Yes'm," returned the other, meekly.
"Will you be so good as to go in and hand
me out his mangled remains?
In Newport and at Saratoga dogs lunches
are sent to their rooms and charged for, the
same as other boarders:
In Detroit pet dogs are boarded out dur
ing the summer. There is very respects.
bic boarding house for them on East Lsrned
street.
"The only person" said the landlady
alluded to above, who ever offered to pay
me was clergyman. he paid 81 month
for his dogs lunches"
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