The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-06-29
HE sReATHeo AGAIN.
The Terrible Experience of q Young
Man Who Played Host.


The Terrible Experience OF q Young
Man Who Played Host.
The impecunious young man had
been kept In the house by cold. so he
actually managed to get together ten
dollars on which there was no pressing
claim. OF course, he had debts, but
nothing extremely urgent:
81 ought TO do something for that
friend of my sister who is In town" he
unused. ~ haven't taken any notice
of the card she sent wonder how I
can square myself Might take her TO
the theater. No, that won't do L
shall have to take her aunt, and that
will be four dollars aud fifty cents or
six dollars for the tickets / shouldn't
have enough for supper. Better make
1t a dinner. ! can make the hour
seven o'clock, and say that we couldn't
get to the theater without hurrying
through dinner. Besides, I can tell
her l want to have q nice chat with
her. We might even wind up at the
art exhibition, II we went to table
d'hote Tickets are only fifty cents
So the note explaining how illness
had prevented an earlier call, and clos
Ing with an in vitation to dinner for the
visitor and her aunt, was sent. The
reply accepted the apology and the ex-
PLANTATION. The young man had much
difficulty in holding to his ten dollars
He vowed that he would have asbestos
pockets in his next suit Of clothes, SO
that money couldn't burn a hole
through. On the appointed evening
the three went to the new hotel which
the young man had selected, because
he had been told that the dinner on
the American plan was extremely good
and cost only q dollar and a half.
This would leave margin for wine,
tip, car-fare and art exhibition.
The dinner was exceedingly pleas
ant, and two hours and n half were
spent in delightful conversation.
Finally, coffee was served and drunk,
and the waiter brought two checks
One was for wine, the other for the
dinner. The young man had been in
some tight places before, owing
to his impecuniosity, but he
was fairly overwhelmed when he
saw the second check. Each dish that
the party had eaten was stamped on it
ia red ink, with the price The horri-
BILE list ran down the entire face of the
check, and two-thirds of the way down
the other side. 1t started: "Clams,
seventy-five cents; soup, one dollar
and twenty cents; pompano, one dol
lar and eighty cents" and went on,
enumerating every vegetable, meat,
dessert and so on. The total must
have been fifteen dollars. The host
pretended to study the check. but he
was thinking of a way to get .out of
his scrape. He didn't have his watch,
but the cashier might accept his card.
Meantime the waiter stood solemnly
by.
whats the total" he finally asked
There it is" and the waiter pointed
ut some small figures at the top of the
check. These said simply: Three
dinners, a.5o." A sigh of relief got to
the young mans lips, but was stifed
there. The ten dollar bill was more
than enough, but those few minutes
Qf they were minutes) Of shock took the
edge off the hosts spirits. lie doesn't
know yet what the itemized account
was all about Probably the hotel
wanted to show how much it gave TO
eat for one dollar and half.-N. Y.
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