The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-12
THEIR HONEYMOON.
CAME PRETTY NEAR STARVING DUR
ING ITS FIRST WEEK.

A Difident Bridal Couples Experience, Tn
New York Hotel-The Carlo de Jour
Was Too Much For Them, and Hunger
Drove Them to Light Housekeepinx.-
Starving amid plenty is a hard fate
yet such was tho case Of difident
bridal couple that staid for q week Mt
the Hotel Netherland recently. They
came up from the south, and the period
of reconstruction did not seem to have
left mark upon their open and genial
characters. He was rawboned and ath
letic, and she was one of those typical
southern girls who speak in tho Ian
guorous dialect of Dixie Land when she
does speak, but carries ON conversation
mainly by the use of her eyes. The cou-
pie were we'll supplied with money and
manifested desire to have good time,
but showed woeful lack Of knowledge
of the details Of great city. To the
manager Of the house the young bride
groom confided the information that his
family had once been wealthy, but, like
many others in the south, had been
drained by the war. The girl also came
of an old plantation family that had
been left penniless by the war, and all
either could boast Of was long line of
fine ancestry, health and good looks. BY
dint of hard work and extreme economy
the bridegroom had saved few hun
dred dollars, and he intended to have q
ii r.
membrance.
Tho couple came to the hotel about
noon and passed most Of tho afternoon
in looking over the house and ad1niring
the furnishings. When it began to grow
dark, tho young husband seemed to get
uneasy. He wandered around tho cor.
ridors Of tho hotel and seemed to be ut n
loss for something. Finally his feelings
mastered him, and he approached the
clerk and asked: "Ah, say, can you tell
me when the supper bell rings? Am get
ting sort o hungry"
The clerk was amused, but he ex-
planned to the southerner the mysteries
of living upon the European plan. When
the bridegroom learned that the 81 n
day he was paying for his room did not
include meals for himself and his wife
he whistled softly and remarked "You
all must max heap Of money cha 'ging
like that TO rooms. Well, we uns arc
going to have good time, and suppose
we all might as well go in and get
something or other to eat
He walked off and went up to his
room to get his wife. He manifested a
peculiar liking for the elevator and in
sisted on riding in it at every occasion.
He found his wife as hungry as himself,
and under the tow of bellboy made his
way TO the dining room. Previous to en-
tering this room his honeymoon had been
a dream of JOY, without a cloud to hide
the sunshine. When he seated himself
at the table the first "rift in the lutte"
came. A white aproned, obseuuious
waiter laid carte de jour in front of
the southern visitors and then hurried
Off to get glasses, plates and so on. A
consultation ut once took place. The
card was printed in French, and after
studying 1T from every side and reading
1t backward and forward the husband
gave it up and passed it over ruefully to
his wife She looked in hopeless Devil
derment at the card, and it was evident
that she was at sea also, so far as French
was concerned. They gazed hopelessly
into each others eyes and then at the
card, and then back into each others
eyes again. He was game to the last,
and suddenly thought struck him. He
called the waiter to him and said softly,
"Waitah, is this all You uns have for
suppah?"
The XUoifnr rar1inl y,
that had been prepared for the meal was
on the card. The husband sighed and
the wife looked glum. Then the young
fellow said quietly: "Well, guess we
all don't want any Of what you uns have
got fixed We uns will get something or
other to eat later Then he arose and
went up to his room, his wife following
obediently. For two days tho young cou-
pie haunted the house They did not
seem to think that there was any moro
OF New York than that which lay i'm
mediately within the range Of vision
from the hotel. They eyed the dining
room longingly, but did not enter it.
Ono day ono Of tho maids came to the
manager of the hotel and told him that
tho persons in the room occupied by this
young couple were littering the place
with cooking. The manager, who felt
that something was wrong with the
young fellow. called him aside and told
him kindly that the management did
not allow cooking i'll the rooms, as it in
terfered with the regime Of the house
and damaged the furniture The young
man blurted ont: "Ah dent see what
we all is to do, then. All can't get any
thing to eat i'll the dining room, and we
uns has got to eat.