Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-31

| profusiou of them, for without this
! you re lost. The effect is said to be in
| describably beautiful, for the huge
| lamps, too, are entwined with them
| and you seem to be in q land of bloom
and fragrance, in a bower of enchant-
ment. Yes, it is rather expensive
That's the only objection. But folly is
always hlgh-priced, and vet people seem
to think it pays! Another objection to
so many flowers is that the sitting odor
takes away all desire to eat. Eat? Why,
bless your simple mind, you must eat
before you leave the house. Business
always before pleasure.
But all of US are not reckless.
ECONOMY is getting to be vice here
in New York, said hotel keeper on
Fifth avenue. az these rich old fam
lilies in my house don t either die or get
out they'll bankrupt me-"
asked the man to explain.
"Why, it is like .hIs, - said he, "here
/ have a dozen families living with me on
the American plan, at rates that are sui
cidal to me. l will give you just one ex-
ample, and that will reveal to you the
whole cause of my misery. There is an
old fellow over there drinking a pint
bottle OF claret. He lives here with his
wife, and has done so for years. During
thu winter he takes board on the
American plan, but during the
summer, owing to the fact that
he and his wife go out of town OCCASION
ally to be gone over night, he imagines
that it would be cheaper for him to live
on the European plan. This year 1 kept
tally on the old fellow. The very last
day that he was here on the American
plan / reckoned up his and his wife 8
meals by the restaurant prices. In one
day they ordered dishes that would have
amounted to just SIP If they had been
paying for each dish. As it was, they
got the entire business, including two
bedrooms, for So q day each. On the
following day the two started on their
European plan arrangement, paying for
each item rs they ordered 1t. never
went farther than the breakfast, for it
would have broken my heart to have
done so. The breakfasts of those
two old misers amounted to just
fifty-f1ve cents. He is twice q million
aire, mind you. He is at this moment
drinking fifty cent bottle of claret, and
he will have the barkeeper cork up half
of il so that he can finish 1t In about
three hours from now. Funny, ISM IL?
Those rich old ducks are nearly all like
that. There are young fellows who
come in here that 1 know are on small
salaries and they will spend more in Ave
minutes than that man with the claret
will in week. He thinks more of a
dollar than my bell boys do of ten.
After having one waiter for six months
he finally put fifty cent piece on the
table one day and, calling the waiter to
him, said:
What would you do with that fifty
cent piece If were to give it to you?'
well, replied the waiter, Il am q
married man and have children. l can
usually take care of fifty cent pieces
''The old millionaire looked at the
money for minute and then put it back
in his pocket.
"'I am afraid you would spend it for
drink, said he. That was some years
ago, and the miser has never brought out
half dollar since. l tell you what it is,
am going TO start hotel for mechanics
and grocers' clerks. 1 can't make q
cent out of the millionaires. -
a..
A long. limp and eloquent pair of black
silk tights, hanging in the window OF a
lady's tailor on Fifth ave-
nue., had been worrying me for some
DAVIS before made nm nv mind to find