The Cairo bulletin., 1910-05-23
Going Out to
Dinner

NEul ttlt ~ uiuHtT tiit Ututf
night reniniscenty said the man
who had Just succeeded in lie. ting his
cigar with the third match In TACT.
! ! went ont to dinrer In sueh whole
| ssouled. enthusiastic way that haven't
| recovered vet
You see the Walworths, who live
!. at a big family hotel. invited IFS out
/ on d Thars day night for dinner and
| the dance following The dances al.
| ways are dress.lp affairs and my wife
| reminded me IN he morning that
| must get home early from the Office
In or6er 10 surround myself with my
/ evening clothes nearly broke my
meek to do so. My collar button rolled
! away only twice and managed to find
the hooks on the back OF my wife's
gowl--she had brand new party
/ dress SO we arrived only half an
| hour late.
I'VE went right upstairs to the Wal
worlds suite and tapped on the door
There was no answer. Then knocked
lizard Nothing happened
/ Wei. | think that's queer. said
| my wife She was anxious to get
some powder on her nose and was IT..
ritable She said she'd wait there
/ while ! vent down to the desk to In.
quire about en- host
The eiprk said the Walworths were
In al dinner made him repeat the
statement which he did. distinctly and
| calmly He seemed utterly unmoycd
/ by the situation When got my
/ breat! and told him to have my name
sent In he seemed dubious He said
MI Walworth didn't like to be dis
| tugbed when he was iii the dining
room. but II insisted"
Il told him in carefully depressed
tore that did Insist.
Presently Walworth came out He
came with an air OF irritated surprise.
| which was hard to beat. Moreover he
had on his business suit He greeted
ne With polite.ess and then remarked
| TINT he and Mrs Walworth were with
In II minutes Of finishing dinner. and
would ! take the evening paper and
amuse myself until
| II think my face must have halted
| him there for he trailed Of into moth
Ing, and finally blurted out. Say. what
the dickens do you want. anyhow
| Il blew up then WANT roared
letting my overcoat fall back so he
might see my expanse OF shirt front
| What the deuce do you suppose
| want? Do you think travelled away
down here just for the pleasure OF
| gazing upon your countenance? l
want dinner, you unmitigated chump!
] Didn't YOU ask me down? And up.
stairs In the hall. outside your door,
Ia my wife patiently waiting, unless
she has died from hunger since left
| her therei'
We'll Walworth twined himself
over the desk and roared You
thought II was Thursday night, didn't
/ YOU? he inquired. soothingly. Well
il happens to be Wednesday night
And 50 It was. My wife and
never will know how we CHANGED to
skip a day Whes we had collected
my wife and Walworth's we held a
council Of war. Jessie absolutely re-
fused to enter the hotel dining groom
In an evening gown and pearls when
| everyone else was peacefully dining
in off-night costume. Then rose to
the occasion.
1.-THE Joke said |, is on me. Come
| on--we'll all go out to the country
! club and have dinner'
| Then Mrs Walworth got into the
game What she cried. and in a
shtrtwaist and tailor suit and Jessie
in all those things!'
We'll. finally the girls compromised
We went up to the Walworths' rooms
and while Jessie toned down her gor.
geousness Mrs Walworth began stick.
| ing things on Jessie took OF her
| leweled bandeau and donned Mrs. Wal
worth's turbaE and promised TO keep
on her wrap, which was only mildly
| hilarious. Mrs. Walworth wore her
new spring hat, bunch Of yiolets and
some extra chains and pins to help
| out her plain tailor suit, and Wal
worth just had to grin and bear his
business clothes.
I'VE couldn't get a train. so Wal
1 worth phoned for taxi and when II
came 1t was IN charge OF pirate,
i who confGed that he was only q re-
| peir man ard. while our lives were
safe in his hands he didn't know a
thing about the way to get to the. club,
SO Walworth had TO sit out in front
With the driver.
when we got there we met every
living soul we knew and each one took
d separate stare at our anonymously
CARRIED party.
Coming home the locomotive broke
down and we had to walk across a
stubble field to street car.
AFTER all that Walworth and his
wife had the nerve to ask sweetly II
we weren't going to go through all
that dress agony again and come to