The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-01-28
THtf MADE no NOISE
Twelve Men Eat IA Midnight supper IN Ne
York Without S;,eakins n Word

Twelve Men Eat IA NJ idnighI supper in New
York Without Speaking Word
II was at Browns chop house Oh
Thursday morning Their IA
dozen fellows seated at lie e-etrei
table Tie walters hustled about set
ting before them bottles al bass and
Welsh r4rehits. and golden bucks and
Scotch woodcocks. tile latter ii deli
cacy cbiupOse.d of anaiovy toast and
poaahed eggs Evidently they knew
their way about and were acquainted
with the slang OF after midnight up
town restaurants
The little tables around the room
were also occupied, but quieter
crowd was never seen at that hour Of
the morning The party at the center
table said never a word, and the men
at the other tables simply watched
them. with vacant, questioning smiles.
There was convention of deaf mutes
in town. and the dozen at the center
table were some of the delegates This
was explained by one of the walters,
but il did not in the least lessen the in
terest all the other people had in watch
ing the rapid finger movements CT the
party The president, a handsome,
clean cut faced man of thirty five, with
spectacles. got on his feet as soon as
the glasses were filled. and while they
We're waiting for the eatables. He held
his fo:uning glass in the right hand,
and energetically wagged the fingers OF
his left His audience said: Hear,
hear and Bully for you, old manw
with their two fingers and thumb. All
were smiling. and an eager. listening
beam was in the eye of each.
But. although the president finished
up with what was no doubt a very fun
ny story, none of the party laughed.
Their s:'iles broadened to grins, their
fingers worked like lightning. but there
was no sound Not even a merry jim
gle of the glasses or a rapping of the
table This was what made it SO un-
c;tuny and kept all the other roisterers
from enjoying one atsother's company
But it was perfectly natural.
There were half dozen college men
present, and to them it was the most
curious thing they had ever struck
to see twelve young fellows really en-
d
heap of noise 1t may be a lesson to
them
1t was the president of the deaf and
dumb party who gave the orders to the
waiter He spoke slowly and empha-
sized each word as if he were firing it at |
the bullseye at the end of a shooting
gallery The waiter halloed back, and |
the president said Il don't hear. None
of us hear, but we read your lips.
Please speak slowly" The waiter put
his mouth to the presidents ear and
began to below still louder The pres
ident smiled, and told the joke to the
other fellows with his left hand, at
which they all laughed by Tipping
their thumbs against the two first fin
gers. But TIE waiter caught on at last
And the dumb and deaf party
lad evidently very merry. though
evening. Their fingers work
ID off many old chestnuts. no doubt,
md scraps of poetry, perhaps snatches
If song, yet nobody outside of their
'arty was any the wiser.
In the last sentence there is moral.
Provincial euchre parties who pool
heir forfeits to pay the expenses of
heater and supper party in town
would do well to study it.-New York
advertiser