Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-05-26
THE JOBSONS DINE OUT

II saw a perfectly lovely gas range today
| for $1S." remarked Mrs. Jobson one evening
last week.
"Siik-lined, with passementerie trimmings
and q v-yoke?" inquired Mr.. Jobson. cast
Ing away his paper.
| "We'll need a gas range this summer. you
| know" said Mrs. Jobson. "and this one"
| I'll bet it's not marker to the automo-
bile fellow I know was showing me this
| afternoon" said Mr.. Jobson. Said he'd let
me have it for only $780,
| Mr.. Jobson waited for Mrs. Jobson to
make some reply to this sarcasm. but she
| seemed to be very busy with her Honiton
lacework.
that Mrs. Jobson didn't feel like arguing,
! what do we want with an $1S gas ranger"
| well, we've been needing one for a good
many summers past said Mrs. Jobson.
! They're so convenient and so much cooler
| than coal ranges. and during the hot
| weather the house would be so much more
| endurable after dinner if"
| oh, interrupted Mr., Jobson, IT knew 1
| had something to mention to you. There
| are not going to be any more dinners in
| tober.'
mo more dinners?" said Mrs Jobson,
| with puzzled look. Mr.. Jobson, l hope
you are not going back to any of those veg
etarian or non-eating schemes that you
| tried last year and made such dismal
| fail"
Never you mind about the schemes that
tried last year. Mrs Jobson-this is an
| other year" said Mr.. Jobson severely .sIt
would be mighty good scheme all around
| II you could eliminate that little habit
you We got of casting up things that hap
pened IN the 1cthyosauran period. When
say that there are going to be more din
| nerS served in this household after today
| until the LIST day of October 1 do not mean
| that were not going to have any dinners.
at ID r.
| to admit that you've got enough to eat all
| these years, won't your"
| But If there are to be no dinners here
| how in the world"
| This" said Mr.. Jobson with the air of a
| man who has got everything all arranged
| after long consideration, '"is matter that
I've mad IN mind for good many years.
and now I'm going to put it into practice
| Mrs Jobson, 1t is barbarous and unneces-
sary for people living in these ATTITUDES to
COOK and eat their dinners in their own
| houses during the torrid season. There's no
| sense in 1t. 1t is wholly uncalled-for in
| fiction upon the mistress of the establish
| ment to demand of her that she stand over
| a cook and watch her when the mercury ia
Missing in the bulb. and it's not going to
happen around here any more We're GO
| ing 10 take our dinners out until the list of
October" "a
| OUT inquired Mrs. Jobson "Where?''
| AT the restaurants" said Mr. Jobson
You can meet me down town every after
noon after office hours, and we can go to
|
and get our dinner. Then we'll return to
| our cool house, and therell be no dish
washing and foeling around stufy kitchen
| or any other bother like that for you. It'll
| be a good thing in lots of ways. one of
| them being that We'll have a change of
diet. which everybody needs once in a
| while. We won't have to stick to any one
| restaurant, but We'll give EN- all a try
| and it'll be sort O. piquant to have dinner
| around at different places and amid differ
ent scenes every day. It'll relieve the
monotony tremendously. and the only thing
I'm afraid of is that when we've been doing
| 1t until the first of October you'll be so
| enamored of the scheme that you'll feel
like breaking up housekeeping and living
| view. altogether"
But" said Mrs. Jobson, don't you know
how you have always disliked eating in
restaurants, and how it annoys you to have
to walt little while for the waiter to serve
| YOU and how"
mo. Mrs. Jobson, 1 don't know anything
of the sort" said Mr.. Jobson, decisively.
| You've got me mixed with somebody else.
| You just meet at the Office tomorrow
at little after I, and well go and have
! our first dinner under the new plan, and
| you'll thank then for suggesting the
scheme to you"
Mrs. Jobson did go to Mr.. Jobson's office
| on schedule time on the following after
| noon but he had forgotten about the ar
| rangement and gone home. She waited for
| him to come back, and he did.
THE new plan escaped your memory,
| didn't IT, said Mrs. JObSOn.
| II guess not" said Mr.. Jobson. shortly.
| Il went home to get a clean handkerchief.
that's all. And as 1 didn't find one and
had to buy one. after all. In spite of the
| fact that I've bought some 1000 handker-
chiefs since the first of January, 1 suppose
| the cat has eaten EN- all up"
| There are at least two dozen in your
| drawer" said Mrs. Jobson.
| Are hey?' said Mr.. Jobson. "All I
| found in my drawer were three of your
| wells and a couple of pairs of your gloves
and about eghty-seven yards of that 10
| cent lace you bought yesterday because the
| man who put 1t on his bargain counter
| needed the money. But never mind about
that Where are we going to eat? I'm
| ravenouS.'
| "Oh. any place" said Mrs Jobson.
"Oh, that's all the interest you have in
| the scheme, is it?' said Mr.. Jobson. You
don't care whether I'm faint from hunger
How about the-?'' suggested Mrs.
| Jobson, naming one of the hotel restau-
| rants.
| ..How about moving the Waldorf Astoria
down here?" said Mr.. Jobson. Il hope you
| haven't become possessed of the idea, Mrs.
| Jobson, that I'm going to pay about S12So
day for our dinners, have you? Because
I'm not going to do any such thing. Come
| on. I know where Wen go. Wen go to
IS They don't put on many Jugs down
| there but they give you enough to eat
without assessing you a weeks wages Tor
So thew went to IS. 1t was very hot,
| and by the time they arrived there they
were perspirng and uncomfortable. Mrs.
Jobson particularly in her new, tight
fitting foulard dress.
| 1t was just after the departments had
closed. and the restaurant was so filed
that they had difficulty in getting seats at
all, and the places they did finally secure
were about forty feet out Of range of the
| electric fans. Mr.. Jobson gave vent to
| numerous "Huhs!" over this. but he picked
up the regular dinner bill of fare and beck
oned waiter. The waiter looked Mr.. job
son over carefully and went on about his
business. When he passed that way again
few moments later Mr. Jobson snapped
his fingers for him again. this time some
| what savagey. The waiter approached
| their table and inclined his ear
Thanks for letting me catch your eye.
! after sitting here for four solid hours,
said Mr.. Jobson. sarcastically, to the wait
err. Dye think you could let us have
bite to eat, now. if We act real humber"
"Yessuh," said the waiter. "Ah'll be back
dis-uhway shotely. suh.'' and then the
waiter went off. After about twelve min
utes he again got within Mr.: Jobson's
finger-snapping range-Mr. Jobson was
meantime growing things under his breath
that caused the people at the other tables
to look around at him-and once more the
waiter approached the Jobsons' table.
| "I.ook-a-here" said Mr.. JObSon to the