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

Wrnt OFT 10 dlnner the Other
night reniniscently said the man
! who had Just succeeded in Lis /. ting his
| CHAR with The third match In fact.
| ! went oat To dinrer in such whole
! .soued enthusiastic way that haven't
/ recovered yeti
: You see the Walworths. who live
. at big family hotel. invited us out
on Thursday night for dinner and
the dance following The dances al
ways are dfess-up affairs and my wife
reminded me In he morning that |
1 must pct home early from the office
in order 10 surround myself with my
/ evening clothes ! nearly broke my
| neck to do so. My collar button rolled
/ away only twice and managed to find
7 the hooks ON the back OF my wife's
gowi--she had brand new party
4 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 vas no answer. Then knocked
hard Nothing happened
Wei, think that's queer said
| NY wife She was anxious to get
some powder on her nose and was In.
ritabe She said she'd wait there
while vent down to the desk to In.
/ qtHfe about cui host
The CLERK said the Walworths were
| In al dinner ! made him repeat the
statement. which he did, distinctly and
| calmly He seemed utterly unmoyed
| by the situation When got my
breatl, and told him to have my name
sent ~ he seemed dubious. He said
| Mir Walwortl didn't like to be dts
turbed when he was iii the dining.
room. bat II insisted"
| 7 tuld him In a 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
that he and Mrs Walworth were with
In u minutes 81 finishing dinner, and
would take the evening paper and
amuse myself until
Il think my face must have halted
| him there. for he trailed Off into moth
Ing and finally blurted out. Say. what
the dickens do you want anyhow
| u blew up then Want, reared,
letting my overcoat fall back SO he
might see my expanse OF shirt front
What the deuce do you suppose !
| wante DO you think travelled away
| down here just for the pleasure OF
gazing upon your countenance? /
want dinner, you unmitigated chump!
] Didn't you ask me down? And up
/ stairs In the hall. outside your door.
Is my wife. patiently waiting, unless
she has died from hunger since left
| her there
We'll Walworth twined himself
over the desk and roared. You
tlought It was Thursday night. didn't
you? he inquired, soothingly Well.
! II happens TO be Wednesday night
And so It was. My wife and
| IlHNtI WILL KNOW now we GHhUCtu W
skip day Whes we had collected
my wife and Waiworth's we held a
| council Of war. Jessie absolutely re-
| fused to enter the, hotel diningroom
In an evening gown and pearls when
everyone else WAS peacefully dining
In off-night costume. Then rose 10
the occasion.
1.-THE joke said |, Is on me. Come
on well all go out TO the country
/, club and have dinner'
"fhen Mrs. Walworth got into the
game What she cried, and In a
shirtwaist and tailor suit and Jessie
In all those things'
Well 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 off her
| jeweled handeau 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 violets 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 train, so Wal
4 worth phoned for taxi and when It
came It was in charge OF pirate.
4 who confted that he was only q re-
peir man ard, while our lives were
safe In his hands be 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
separate stare at our anonymously
CARRIED party.
Coming hone 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
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