Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-05-03
4 WATCHED THE CHILD.

IS OF cash received and paid out. have
just been assisting the conductor to
make up his cash and declare . divi-
dsnd 1t Is quite a job to do while the
train goes forty miles an hour, and
while tho walters are filing the aislss
full Of soiled linen and Ill assorted pro-
family.
In the first place, Of course. the checks
given 10 passengers at table are all num-
bered like the hairs Of ones head, and
In each daily report the dining conductor
must give the number he closed with
tho day before, as wei as the ono he
opens with today. This makes what
Diogenes used to call dead opeu and
ahut-
Next the oplomb and style must b
duly considered There are all sorts of
ways Of doing things. For instance,
take the simple matter Of serving ice
cream / went into Mr.. Delmonico's
place last winter and had something to
eat. winding up with Ice cream. It was
a. good ice cream a. / ever put into my
head II consisted Of the bust Of bean
tiful bat rather cool brunette, tho face
and figure, wherever tho skin was VIM
bic, being made Of chocolate, while .
pale yellow vanilla constituted the eco
n0mical waist Of the party dress, and .
Hight and gauzy veil of lemon leo was
thrown careleesly over the bead. Il was
highly artistic. and when 1t was frosen
20 fairly and % beautifully ready for
the table don't blame Charlie Delmon-
leo for feeling proud - he put on his
coat and set the freezer back in the Gel
lar way to wait for another job.
Last week. however. saw an Ice
cream sign in the window as journeyed
through Texas town, and recalling the
cool yet innocuous beverage that ate It
the above New York boarding place.
went in Il was, in front. bakery, and
the rather ackeuing odor OF last years
cnndy pail seemed TO still cling to tho
costly hsnsisgs. Also . large pepper
mint candy cane hung in the window.
The memory Of hot candy seemed to
DO In possession Of the store. There was
no one else there-only this sweet mem
CRY. So / passed on through an arch
way hung with costly purple canton
flannel curtains. and under . coal al
chandelier draped with scalloped tissus
paper en- which tho fly Of the period was
holding mass meeting. The ice cream
saloon was furnished with rectangular
table covered with real oil cloth made
10 look ike marble. Why anybody
should ever try to initiate marble. when
seal marble Is 50 cold and ghastly, I do
not know.
No one was in the ice cream parior e.
cept . hairless dog that was suffering
from fatty degeneration. There was
Also . sun bonnet on the ice cream table.
] pressed in through the kitchen. whore .
nics tin basin Of dried prunes was OF
were stewing. On the hearth stood .
plate with some Saratoga potatoes or
autumn leaves in L. Out in the bach
yxrd man was wiping the noe Il .
little child. It seemed almost wrung 20
lske him away from his job. but I aaked |
him how he was fired for ics cxunm. He |
nd he could get me come.
r. SEEMED that he was what h calIed = |
model husband. l supposs that I should |
have stabbed him. but ! hated 10 est |
hood al over bis little child. do not |
fks Che model husband. Possibly b. |
:anss he his bsen held up b M q times /
when wa not god nA<ured- Wher- |
NJ ron sud model husband yuu ~ |
n1Ilv ind that he has bori>cno NJ |
with unslnly exyosr<l fnmea
Irturned 10 the store and s1uud sUund