The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-07-14
HARD ON The ESCORT.


Lurcheon Bills After the Theater That
Test Their Pocket-Books.
The restaurant was crowded. At the
table on the reporters right sat a tall,
STRAIGHTFORWARD young man with glasses,
land his companion was girl of eight
cen, who seemed to be in the last stages
OF consumption. She was hollow-eyed
and hollow-cheekcd, and she was so
pale-faced that the writer supposed she
had come for a glass of wine to give her
strength to get home.
The young mans order was very
simple. All he wanted was cup of cof-
fee and q roll. TheFyoung woman took
the menu and read it over twice in a
cool and deliberate way, and then
ordered fried oysters, coffee, rolls. cake,
potatoes, cold turkey, and four or five
other, things-a hearty meal for a LABOR
ing man.
That's a queer thing" said the re-
porter to the manager, who had taken a
scat beside lfifff.-4- --=.zz
Not a bit queer" he answered. 'In
fact, it is what might be expected. Ont
ofany dozen couples who come in hese
after the theater for lunch at least ten
of the females win eat twice as much as
their escorts They come to make a
regular meal. and its astonishing how
much they get away with. honestly
believe that most of them go without
their 6 O'Clock dinner in order to get up
a good appetite at this time"
Does a large woman eat more than a
little-one?n
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over there at the third table on the
right. There's girl who doesn't weigh
much over hundred pounds, and you
can see there's food enough there to
max Iongshoreman good meal, and
you can see how uneasy her young man
isl
"Why?n
because it's going to be close fgur-
ing whether he's got enough cash to
pay the bill. These young fellows you
see in here are mostly salary men, work
ing on from fifteen to twenty-five dol
lars per week These lunch bills on top
of the theater tickets and coupe bills
sometimes pinch them very close. The
girl doesn't know this, or If she does
she doesn't eare."
Then it sometimes happens that the
young man can't square up with your
CASHIER,
ct happens every night. | expect
the cashier could show us two or three
watches and a dozen pins and rings
waiting to redeemed. But that's
private, you know"
"Then you don't raise a row if the
young man can't pay?"
Far from it. There's a case at the
desk now"
| A young man, who was looking very
red in the face and was plainly very
| much embarrassed, was holding conf
| Dental conversation with the cashier
lie slipped a ring off his finger and
passed it in, wrote his address on slip
of paper, and returned to the table
where the girl was still eating away as
if she had just been taken off deser
| island"
Suppose he hadn't anything to put
up"
1--WE should have taken his address
| and let him call later to square the ac-
count
would he have done SOP"
Most certainly. I'ver known scores
of cases, and / don't remember one in
stance where we suffered loss. Puts
him dead on his honor, you see. 1t
would be like going back on his girl to
beat u.s.
! "How much of bill did you ever see
a couple make here?'
Six dollars, and the young man hadn't
but forty cents in cash. He was clerk
on a salary of nine dollars per week,
and he left a ten-dollar watch as Sc
curity. He was two months paying
that BILL"
''And did he marry the girl?"
mo Within two weeks she was in
here with another young man, and I've
seen her with different ones since. The
walters call her Miss Appetite. Her
check is never less than dollar and a
half, and If she's feeling good her escort
| goes out of here dead broke and wading
in sorrow up TO his neck. Chicago IN
| ter Ocean.
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