The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-05-13
THE DAILY
SHORT STORY
The pie-eating Party
az ANN STEVENS

tCopyfight 1918 by the McCulFe Ne"'
paper Syndicate"
5Am no was an alien in New
w. VT Mr.. ELI Pemberton always
va horne in upon him definitely
ghen d came to ordering nreahlaS ~
I'M bio eating with him was DreO i. N
~ New England bones ana 70 re-
S,rt,Dcs this delicacy at the first meal
81 he day just because he was oolseH
q Snsnd two OF three weeks IN sal9
1Sty n, business trip never occnrFeu
b him. 4, ,-ou vo,L
bsS come Ia a newly completed ana
Saiatial hotel that he had never sonS
e before. His reason IL me Or Gsa
Shust be told, was because that us
lindtlv charming young woman nam
"A Miss Lancaster, whom he had Watcn
W With interest in the Pullman car
e6ring 10 New York from the west
!. ~; ~ whom he had eventually beeh
SlintfoducG by business man VINO dlso
fnew nor gave orders to the taxi man
10 drive there. 49,, -
when you come back take these bag
Rage checks and have my boxes SEM
6yeft Miss Lancaster had then given
NE taxi man quite handful OF baggage
elYeel,s. and as Eli Penberton raised
his hat to her and watched the re-
SreAtlne taxi cab he also made up MS
nird to stop" at the Metropolitan.
That was how it happened that ne
Svas In strange surroundings, and why
Sext morning there we're walters whose
faces he had never seen before anu an
entirely new headwaiter TO preaN ll'o
his Yankee tastes.
I'D AS soon as he had ordered oatmeal
md pancakes and sausages ana cohee
Se aaid to the waiter: And piece OF
ample pie" That was the order that
the waitrs at the other hotel had had
10 get used to.
'ifiapple pie, sir?' echoed the waiter,
A5i4A a. much surprise expressed IN
his voice as waiter could permit him.
off. "Hi'm not sure sir, as we can do
that, sir We do cir have 1t for few
orders at night, but happle pie Is not
Tor breakfast is something that is new
er asked for. The pies do not come in
Ell toward noon sir, and there would
be none on hand"
Mr.. Pemberton summoned the head
waiter, and placing a dollar bill in his
hand. he asked him to FIX 1t up about
che pie for him. And the pie was
speedily got from a nearby pastry max
ets and was set before him for break
fast. The next morning the pie was
On hand when Mr.. Pemberton arrived
Ut breakfast.
ale once new an actor fellow that
had to have oatmeal for super after he
Iar1e in fro tnthe theatre" commented
the waiter to the headwaiter, "and an.
Dther that put tobasco on his muskmel
ON hut he never cape across that be.
ore,"
Mr.. Eli Pemberton meantime went
aboJtt lis business in the big city that
6ay with q heart heavy with loneliness
Hi bushes trip in the West that final
IL srIninated in New York had kept
him away from his native New Eng
land for several weeks and in none OF
I The cities he visited did he feel farther
rom that beloved New Tngland than
lie did In New York where the women
The met or passed in tho street all seem
ed like women of race different from
fhe Yanke women OF his home. He
Was thinking about Miss Lancaster
md something that he had learned
about her set him wondering about
der more than any Of the rest Toward
me close Of the day he fingered in the
btflce OF one Of the men with whom he
lid q good deal Of business.
"I've been wondering" he said to
his nan-Mr. Montague Stone-whose
/ wife Eli had met and on that meeting
had classified as "typically New York,
rye been wondering how many hats
most women have to have. You see
I'VE noticed those things. / have an
idea that my own mother never had
more than two hats at a time. But
then she was plain Yankee woman.
seems as IL I remember that she used
q have big box full OF ribbons and
Iiowers and the things women fasten
nm their hats to make them pretty,
and as recall it, she used to take an
old hat and sort Of bend 1t down and
fuss with it and make another hat
but OF 1t. But nowadays in New YORK
8 woman suppose would have to have
3 dozen hats at least.
"Shed have to have husband with
more money than have to have that
many" commented Mr., Montague
Stone. "Why,'I don't believe my wife
ever has more than four in a season.
OF course, some Of those rich society
women you read about might have
dozen or so. suppose they do
iIf you knew girl that Travelled
With twenty hats" suggested Mr.. Pen
Idleton, II suppose you draw the con-
clusion that she was a society women
shen."
y suppose So"
Eli heaved sigh.
whats the Ise?"
ut doesn't amount to much" Mr..
pendleton said. But you see I've trav
sled on from tho west with a woman
ttfat fhferaStad ma lnf Cbe ceema6