Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1910-11-05
THE
DINNER HOUR


large summer hotel. II Is the dinner
hour and the room is filled with WON
en- and girls in filmy summer gowns
men in while fiannels and other fash
ionable hot-weather toggery and chill
dren of all ages In fascinating array
Everybody is talking at once)
Middle-Aged Woman (who has for
gotten to dust the powder OF her left
cheek. who wears wonderful corais
and is surrounded by everything on
the bill of fare)--I simply can't eat a.
thing and the doctor said ! needed TO
be built upl There's iron in this wa
ter and thatll give me an appetite!
Thin Woman (across from herr
Did you ever try pulled hayseed Tor
weak stomach
Girl with a yellow ribbon wound
through her hair and neck a loot
long And that my gracefulness was
what first attracted him to me. Oh
course. don't believe a thing man
says, but Jack never says things un-.
less he means them He's an awful
ly clever, discerning sort of man
Other Girl (plump and snub-nosed)
Why. | think he's the stupidest
ever! Just naturally slow and clumsy!
And the way he squints when he tries
to be sentimental
First Girl-Dear me, Grace! ! never
say any one who thought every man
who barely glanced at her was trying
to make love to her as you do! why
he never looked at any one but me
both times he's been here
Youngish Woman (twith wasp
waist and the best brand of rouge)-
He did. Henry! He grabbed Jimmie
by the nape of the neck and shook
him. Are you going to stand that
sort of thing-having a great, hulking
boy of seventeen beat your innocent
child. who's only nine? While jim
ME may not always mind, | Will say
that he has a perfectly angelic dispo-
sition If he's handled properly. He's
sensitive and I'm glad of IL, for OF all
creatures detest that huge boy, who
hasn't any feelings at all. Jimmie
wasn't doing a thing, not a single
thing! Why. / did ask that other boy
and be made some ridiculous excuse
about Jimmie having emptied into the
lake all his bait he had just gone two
miles to get! / think it showed jim
mics tender heart to want to put the
little minnows back into the water,
where I'm sure they're much happier
than they we're in tin pail with holes
in 1t. And, anyhow, he's eight years
older than Jimmie and his fishpoles
are always in the way, and you've just
got to do something about it, or
Youth of Twenty Lavender tie,
socks and handkerchief)- Didn't you
see her when she came in, Billy? A
peacherino-look oyer by the eastwin-
down pink. Mefor that!
Other Youth--Betchu | get intro
duced first! Betchu take little Goldi-
locks for the first waltz this evening
Dyspeptic Old Gentleman-If the
management doesn't stop these chill
dren shrieking while people are trying
to eat a peaceful dinner Ill leave! l
won't stand It! I
His Wife-Now, Richard, do be sen
sible! You were a child once
He-Well. my mother kept me at
home where / belonged and didn't
traipse off to summer resort and
make every one miserable Why, they
played tag down our hall at six o'clock
this morning!
Pretty Woman in Blue-You are
perfectly ridiculous!
Her HUSBAND guess | can see!
guess I'm not blind, though you may
think | am! II was exactly 35 min
utes by the clock that you sat in that
corner OF the porch with him, whis-
pering Yes, you were!
! Pretty Woman won't listen to
such absurd
Her Husband-You'H listen till l get
through, and l want to say right
here
Young Man-Roast beef and the
salad and all the vegetables, and, say
, Some of the lamb, too and anything
else that's handy and
/ Second Young Man-Bring me two
kinds OF pie and ice cream! and the
cake and the cheese! And coffee,
Sadie, don't forget the coffee!
Boy OF five hits his little sister in
the face with his pineapple fritter.
Both shrek.
Their Mother Ito their father, as
4 she removes the smitten one for re-
pairs) Arthur, don't be harsh with
Willie, now Remember he's a nerv-
Gus child! Look out-hes putting a
grasshopper down that little girls
neck
In the resultant pandomonium, VII.
lie spills a glass of milk over his IA
Tiers suit and is dragged out yelling)
Dyspeptic Old Gent hope he gets
licked! hope he gets licked! Maria.
pass the butter!