The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-10-04
WATERS WE'RE FOOLED.

In downtown restaurant, whose
numerous regular lunch customers are
made up In great part Of newspaper
men and women, foreign merchants,
and city men treating their wives and
daughters to lunch on the occasion Of
an unusual visit to the south end Of
the island, the lunchers on the second
floor were all much interested in par
ty Of three that enisred a. the waning
rush hours had left number of tables
vacant.
There was man with his arm in q
sling and rather roughly-certainly
Queerly-dressed, no two articles Of
whose clothing bore the slightest rela-
ton to each other. He was strikingly
In need Of shave, and altogether
there was much about him suggesting
a Weary Walker,
Therefore he walked past several
vacant tables without being invited to
q seat by the attendants, whose cor
diality IL regulated wholly by the pros
poets Of a tip.
Some Of the weiters should have
been wiser, for tho young fellow-he
was young, straight and suggested
GOOD looks under favorable circum-
stances-was accompanied BY two
women richly dressed and plainly from
the luxurious class. The man was soon
tired Of waiting to be bowed into
seat, and selecting a table, seated the
women with him, then himself, and
demanded the Dill Of fare In peremp-
Tory manner.
Inc waiter IN charge OF the table
looked sad; the other walters grinned
at MIN as WATERS viii grin at a Fellow
VINO mas caught wnAt promises 10 ce
non-uppins party.
Ihere were several groups OF lunch
ers VINO occupied tables at the street
windows who regarded the new party
with peculiar interest," aroused by the
iaet mat they mad seen the group
ahgnt from very smart private car
rage Win TWO men In livery on the
pox.
Ihls, alas! the walters had not seen.
one OF the women, everyone in sight
OF tnem soon Knew was the mans
mother' mat was evident before ne
was overheard to address her as such,
lor ner eyes were fastened upon MIN
WIN look OF PRIDE and devotion man
Is not fortunate enough to inspire in |
any other woman on earth save his
motner'
Inc otner-weil, she may have been
mis- sister, but 1t Is not observed that
brother and sister usually, or even
upon rare occasions, seek and find each
other's hands under the table and look
unutterably happy when they do so.
Well, the waiter poked the big red
and yellow bill of fare under the young
mans nose and indulged in weary,
complaining tone, will you order,
SIR?
lie TOOK the card and began consid-
erlng It's temptations, but suddenly
looked up and said, Oh, before l give
the lunch order, bring quart of cham
payne
Inc enect on the waiter was electri-
cal. lie spread fresh linen In front of
each OF his customers, arranged and
rearranged the knives and forks,
brought a fresh supply OF yard-long
bread, and in hundred other ways
showed that deep and superior regard
a waiter has for "wine-customer."
Then he started to fill the order.
When the young man called out,
waiter, you'd better bring couple
OF quarts at once, they can be getting
cold. Anyway, want to see them on
ice. We can manage two quarts under
the circumstances. En-, mother"
Mother was smiling through tears
and repeated, Under the circum-
stances
she would nave repeated, "Ecny.
meeny, moony, my, II her son had
given the cue.
Then their waiter, cast gances OF SUI
preme triumph at the other walters,
VINO were all on the verge OF collapse.
But what lunch that youth ordered.