Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-05-26
HARD ON THE ESCORT.
Luncheon Bills After the Theater That
Tcst Their Pocket-BOOks.

Luncheon Bills After the Theater hh"e
Test Their Pocket-Books.
The restaurant was crowded. At the |
table on the reporters right sat tall,
STRAIGHTFORWARD young man with glasses,
and his companion was girl of eight
cen, who seemed to be in the last stages |
of consumption. She was hollow-eyed
and hollow-cheel1ed and. she was so
pale-faced that the writer supposed she
had come for 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 a roll. The young woman took
the menu and read it over twice in
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 labor
ing man.
CHATS queer thing" said the re-
porter to the manager, who had takena
seat beside him.
Not bit queer" he answered. I'm
fact, it is what might be expected. Out
ofany dozen couples who come in here
after the theater for lunch at least ten
of the females will eat twice as much as
their escorts. They come to make u
regular meal, and it's 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?'
''No. sir; the reverse is the case. Look
! 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 'longshoreman good meal, and
you can see how uneasy her young man
/ is"
y "Why?"
: because it's going to be close figur'
q ing whether he's got enough cash tc
! 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 tor
- 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 care"
y Then it sometimes happens that thu
~ Young man can't square up with you
l. cashier?'
- at happens every night. | eXpec
the cashier could show us two or thre
% watches and dozen pins and ring
. waiting to be redeemed. But that
40 private, you know"
~ Then you don't raise q row if tn
nc young man can't pay?"
er Ear from it. There's case at tn
a desk now"
~ A Young man, who was looking yer
~ red in the face and was plainly yer
-. much embarrassed, was holding cont
' dental conversation with the cashie
y. He slipped ring off his finger an
- passed it in, wrote his address on sll
~. of paper, and returned to the tab
-, where the girl was still eating away {
10 if she had Just been taken off desc
he island"
~ Suppose he hadn't anything to p'
an up?'
a.. ave should have taken his add e
na and let him call later to square the a
M count.
-, "Would he have done SOP"
a'', Most certainly. I've known scor
~, of cases. and don't remember one
NV stance where we suffered Il loss Pu
an him dead on his honor, you see.
od would be like going back on his girl
nj, beat us.
oa1 Glow much of bill did you ever S
~. couple make herc?"
Az Six dollars and the young man hadl
NO but forty cents in cash. He was Gle
~ on salary of nine dollars per wee
,'l. and he left ten-dollar watch as
NV curity. He was two months payi
.d,- that bill"
49, "And did he marry the girl?"
a "No. Within two weeks she was
10 here with another young man, and
aan seen her with different ones since. ]
Al walters call her Miss Appetite. /
.dad check is never less than a dollar and
foat half, and if she's feeling good her csc
~, ~ goes out of here dead broke and wad
;Ii.,, in sorrow up to his neck. Chicago
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