The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-06-10
THEIR HONEYMOON.
CAME PRETTY NEAR STARVING DUR
ING ITS FIRST WEEK.

~ 1AAM0GhA DEAu@A G01RAG@ experience In
n New York HOtel-The Carte de Jour
Was Too Much For Then, and Hunger
Drove Them to Light Housekeeping
Starving amid plenty is hard fate,
yet such was the case of a diffident
bridal couple that staid for week nc
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 sho was one of those typical
southern girls who speak in the 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 a desire to have a good time,
but showed a woeful lack of knowledge
of the details of great city. To the
manager Of the house the young bride
groom confiGed 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
honeymoon that would be worthy of re-
membrancc.
The couple came to the hotel about
noon and passed most Of the afternoon
in looking over the house and admiring
the furnishings. When it began TO grow
dark, the young husband seemed to get
uneasy. He wandered around the cor
ridors of the hotel and seemed to be at u
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 a
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 fo' rooms. Well, we uns are
/ going to have good time, and / suppose
we all might as well go in and get
something or other to eat. -
He walked of 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.
and under the tow of bellboy made his
way 70 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, obseQuious
waiter Il I'd a carte de jour in front Of
the southern visitors and then hurried
off to get glasses, plates and so ON. A
consultation at once took place. The
card was printed in French, and after
studying it from every side and reading
it backward and forward the husband
gave it up ard passed it over ruefully to
his wife She looked in hopeless bewil
derment at the card, and il 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 waiter replied that everything
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, l guess we
all don't want any Of what you uns have
got fixed. We uns will get something or
other to eat later. I" Then he arose and
went up to his room, his wife following
obediently. For two days the young cou-
pie haunted the house. They did not
seem to think that there was any more
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,
One dav one of the maids came to the