The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-26
HER FIFrY.DoLLAR BILL.
Reminder OF Her Skill as Waiter in
Society Girls Room.

Reminder OF Her Skill as a Waiter in
! Society Girls Room.
! Ffon, the Neto York Tines
In the pretty morning room Of a certain
young lady in this city there hangs on the
wall $50 dollar bill, framed first by a
wide gray mat and edged with a narrow
rim OF scarlet plush picked out in gold.
Thereby hangs tale One of the Easter
weddings last spring was that of the young
| wonans sister. STE married civil en-
| glneer, who s-raightaway, after the man>
ner OF civil engineers, rushed off to Arizona
TO survey copper mine about to be, or
already opened, in that distant territory.
dis bride accompanied him, and the sister
was induced TO go also for purposes, as she
put 1t, 4 travel, exploration and advent
ure."
Things were not altogether bad out
| among the Indians; the mine was on the
line OF a railroad; they had carried with
them a good many nome belongings; a
house was secured, such as it was, and a
more or less proper establishment set up.
The summer and the sisters stay were
nearly at an end, when one afternoon Mr.
| Tom, the husband and brosher-in-law, sent
word from the works that the English menu
Der of the firm which was developing the
mine had arrived suddenly for a fewfhours'
stay and he would bring him up to dinner
| This announcement created some consterna-
ton. The cook was half-breed who was
excellent within his limits, but he knew
nothing even of the rudiments OF butlering
As q matter of fact, the family was accus-
TONED TO dine en- buffet. This, freely trans
lated, meant frequent trips on the part of
one diner or another to the chest at the side
Of the room, which by courtesy was called
a sideboard.
| tRut an EnClisbCoo vo,, Epnu Nall q,
said Mrs. Tom, plaintively, expects at din
ner 30 be served if he takes that meal in an
| Indian jungle. With our canned soup and
lobster and the superb joint which Nelson
eau get up we can offer a most presentable
| menu, but what shall we do for some one to
| change the platess"
Miss Nell Immediately begged to take the
role for single appearance. ut will be no
end of fun" she urged land | warrant
neither you nor Tom nor the Englishman
has ever been served as / shall serve you
tonight. I've always conteuded it took a
high degree of intelligence to create a per-
feet butler or butleress." she added with IA
laugh, land I'd immensely like to show what
culture can do with dinner tray"
In the end, though with many misgivings
on Mrs. Toms part, the plan was arranged.
A note was dispatched to MIR. Tom warn
ing him not to mention his sister-in-law in
any way-that all would be explained later.
1t was few moments after their guest had
been welcomed that a capped and aproned
figure appeared in the doorway announcing
quietly, "Dinuer is served.n Whatever
Mr.. Tom may have thought or felt, he could
not express-could do nothing indeed but
follow his wife as the Englishman handed
her out. Everything went beautifully in
the dining-room. From soup to cheese
the serving was irreproachable. The
guest, genial, companionable man
OF perhaps so, was visibly affected
by the skill and general elegance of the
waitress, and Mrs Tom caught several
searching glances thrown upon her maid.
Nothing was said, however. till the close of
the dinner, when, the coffee having been
placsd upon the table, the deft and demure
handmaiden withdrew. Then the English
man voiced his surprise that Mrs. Tom
could keep in this out-of-the way place such
a thoroughly trained aud capable maid
whereupon Mrs. Tom, knowing that her
sister could retire no further than the
screen in the corner OF the room which con-
cealed an emergency buffers pantry,
evolved for her benefit a delightful little
history.
YES" she began slowly, slipping her cot
fee. ELLEN is quite q superior young person
As you have noticed, she is intelligent and
refined much beyond her station; really
very we'll educated, too. And she is the
heroine of a very pretty little romance
| At this junctuce slight rattling of glass
| ware behind the screen warned Mrs. Tom
that her story was taking effect, and with
a CLEAN OF mischief, at which her husband
| could have groane1 aloud, she proceeded
''She is engaged to be married to a very
estimable young man In New York 1.-THE
: sister. by the way, is a fanceel, the wed
ding day was set over Il year ago, when six
weeks before the date arrived the coming
groom was stricken blind in an hour. He
has been under treatment ever since, slowly
regaining his sight. and she, poor girl, is
saving every penny of her wages against
the time when he must leave the hospital |
think she mems to marry him as soon as
possible and support him until he can gel
work again. 1t is quite pathetic and inter
i, csting-her Devotion"
But Mr. Tom could not stand the strain
no longer and proposed to return to the
parlor. The Englishman, however, did not
= drop the subject at once, asking q number
Of questions about Ellen and "company.'
He left, as was expected, soon after dinner
and Miss Nell was free to pour the vials OF
her wrath upon her wicse ed SISTERS head, an
occupation in which she was ably seco 1ded
by Mr.. Tom when he returned from putting
their recent guest aboard his train.
The end, however, was not yet Within
a fortnight Mrs. Tom received a note from
the Englishmen, dated at New York, il
which he SAID that he had been much i'm
pressed with the loyalty aud devotion of her
maid, Ellen, who was undoubtedly a most
worthy young person, and he went on to
beg Mrs. Tom to find some way to bestow
the inclosed-a $50 bill-upon her to aid in
her courageous and praiseworthy effort.
Thus retribution came to Mrs. Tom. She
was overcome at what she had done, and
there was no comfortable way out of it. 1t
was impossible to explain to the English
man how he mad been deceived. Nor could
the bill be plausibly returned on the part OF
Ellen. There seemed nothing to do but to
keep it and thank the donor, which Mrs.
Tom accomplished, 1t must be confessed,
with much less than her usual grace. The
bill bangs on the wall of "Ellen's" room
to-day-a double warning against thee tri-
Gals in private life and the utterances which
have no foundation in fact.
SHOT THROUGH THE WORLD.