Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-03

waist of the party dress, and light and
gauzy veil of lemon ice was thrown care
lessly over the head. It was highly artistic,
and when it was frozen 30 fairly and 80
beautifully ready for the table I don't
blame Charlie Delnonico for feeling proud
as he put on his coat apd set the freezer back
in the cellar way to wait for another job.
Last week, however, I saw an ice cream
sign in the window asI journeyed through
o Texas town, and recalling the cool yet
innocuous beverage that ate at the above
New York boarding place, went in. II
was, in front, q bakery, and the rather sick
ening odor OF last years candy pull seemed
to cling to the costly hangings Also .
large peppermint candy cane hung in the
window.
Into the Lair Of the Freezer.
The memory Of hot candy seemed to be in
possession Of the store. There was no one
else there-only this sweet memory. SO I
passed on through an archway hung with
costly purple canton flannel curtains, and
under o coal oil chandelier draped with
scalloped tissue paper onwhich the fly Of the
period was holding o mass meeting. The
ice cream saloon was furnished with a rectan-
gular table covered with real oil cloth ma de
to look like marble. Why anybody should
ever try to initiate marble, when real marble
Is so cold and CHASTITY, do not know.
No one was In the ice cream parlor except
q hairless dog that was suffering from fatty
degeneration. There was also sun bonnet
on the ice cream table. I pressed In through
the kitchen, where nice tin basin OF dried
prunes was or were stewing. On the hearth
stood plate with some Saratoga potatoes
or autumn leaves in it. Out in the back
yard man was wiping the nose of little
child. It tseemed almost wrong to take him
away from his job, but I asked him how he
was fixed for ice cream. He said he could
get me some.
1t seemed that he was what Is called q
model husband. I suppose that I should
have stabbed him, but hated to get blood
all over his little child. do not like the
model husband. Possibly because he has
been held up to me at times when was not
good natured. Wherever you find q model
husband you generally find that he has
baritone wife with unduly exposed fanga
Where the Mans wife was
I returned to the store and stood around
waiting for my delioatessen. Meantime I
went in behind the counter and cracked
nuts with a pound weight, throwing the
shells into the sugar barrel. I like to pick
ON a model husband, because it Is most al
ways safe. I asked him If he were unmar-
ried. He looked around in frightened
way and said no. His wife was at the As
ISOLATION hall, where she was at the head Of
a committee. The Association had in hand
the Amelioration OF the Miscellaneous
Poor. The work, he said, was getting to be
a wonderful one, and had grown to such
proportions that it took all of her time, so
she had to have an Office up town.
The man wore nice long salmon colored
whiskers and a celiuloid collar. He wiped
off the top of the table with an all-purpose
dust cloth, and put tall goblet of rain
water near me. Then he went away, possi-
bly, to neighbor's, and returned with an
iron spoon with silver freckles on it. After
ward he brought in cake basket contain
ing property cake. You have seen it. It
would look we'll enough in photograph,
but would give an ordinary stomach heart
disease.
Then came porous towel, or napkin, and
a thick saucer of granulated ice cream. In
driving nails with the saucer some one had
Clipped ont mouthful OF the rich china,
and now the half melted mayonnalse ice
cream was running out of that notch. There
were little Jumps OF butter in this ice cream,
silver gloss starch, bergamot and circum-
stantial evidence that the proprietor cleaned
the lamps every morning before he made the
ice cream for the day.
Lost His Appetite for r.
I PAID two bits for the cream, and re-
maiped watching the little child in the store
to see that its nose did not run away with it
while the proprietor went out to the fair
grounds to get change for q dollar. I do
not care much for ice cream since that.
But to return to the dining car. Az
said, not only the stock, but the en- regle
business has to be looked after. It would
not do 10 run diuine car the way some