The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-02

" Three dollars said I.
" Does that include the price of your
luncheon? she asked me.
She had a conference with her friends
and then she came back to me.
" If we undertake to provide your lunch
con- she asks me, viii you make your
fee for the day S2.75.
Hard Treatment This.
"Wen, l wanted to laugh, but 1 couldn't
I didn't care TO haggle over the two bits,
and so 1 told her it would be all right
Well, sir when the noon hour came
around, blessed if they didn't all steer for
one of these temperance lunch room, and
the woman who had made the rate with
me handed me lunch ticket that had 25
cents printed on il. 1 wanted a couple o
high, wide dark beers and a cheese sand
witch so bad that l ached all over, and L
had figured on getting them while my par
ty was at their lunch, but the boss wo-
man of the outfit waved me to a separate
table in the temperance restaurant, and
there / was! Oh. well, look at how much
worse 1t might ha been--I might have
been in Jail, you seel
Just now the season for guides is pref
ty dun, but the bridal couples'll be coming
along in fiocks next month. More OF
emil be happening in for the Dewey
celebration. I'll bet there are hundreds
of young couples all over the country
who've fixed the day so that they'll be
able to make break for the New York
or the Washington Dewey blowout right
after the ceremony. The newly-spliced
around. They never see much, and they
don't ask a guide any questions to speak
Of They're looking into each others
eyes pretty much all the time, ysee-when
they think nobody's spotting 'em-and all
that they really see of the sights to take
of your eye. They'll stand before an ex-
hibit case al the National Museum while
the guides telling 'em all about the
things inside the case and it's ten TO one
that they don't hear a word he's saying.
Just in little old pipe-trance of their
own you understand. Had a young man
and his wife out a couple o. weeks ago.
They were deeply interested In everything
they saw, asked all sorts of questions and
wanted to know all about the whole
works ] asked EN-, casual like, If this
was the first time they'd been around
Washington.
on, no. said the man, winking sheep
ishiy at his wife we saw the whole outfit
four years ago; but that was on our hon
eymoon trip, and when we got back home
neither of US remembered a blooming thing
that we'd seen in Washington
When They Know Too Much.
able people once in a while-foreigners who
knock everything they're shown. espe-
ciaHy-folks who are proba bly, bum deuces
in greasy decks IN their own countries, but
who. when they get over here, plough
around doing a hammersmith and anvil
chorus stunt over everything they see.
had particularly 'knocky' pair like that
a couple of winters ago-an EnGlshman
and his wife You don't want 10 get TIE
imrression that there are not slews and
slathers Of nice. high-bred, civil English
people-the real thing, IN short-visit!ng
Washington al an seasons Of the year. for
there are aud l don't know of any folks
I'd rather take around than the genuine
article in the way OF English men and wo-
men. But these Two were cOckneys, you I'M
derstand who dropped their matches and
reminded me Of a sort Of middle-aged AIRY
and 'Arrlet There just wasn't anything
in this burg that suited them. View! How
they did hammer the whole thing. from
the minute they started QUIT In mean,
nasty way, too, you understand. and look
ing 10 al me sneakily after their shots
to see II 1 was hit. Wei. l was hid. and
hit hard. I'm not dead swell or top
notcher or anything like that, but I'm an
American citizen, my boy, ard 1 was ugly
from The time these two cheap cockney
people began 90 heave their brickbats.
1hey meant the missiles for me and took