The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-04-24
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Say" said the Pretty Cashier, did
you ever stop to think what curious
proposition this love thing is? Your
ordering wheat cakes just now made
me think of it,"
The Late Breakfaster leaned back
into more comfortable position and
then demanded the connection be-
tween wheat cakes and the tender
passion.
you wasn't eating here when we
had the cake griddle in the front win
dow, was your" asked the Cashier.
well, anyway, we did have it there,
and Louie he's our cake artist-cer-
tainly did draw a crowd around on
the outside to watch him flop the
wheat cakes. He put all kinds OF
funny juggling into the job whenever
he turned cake; and it really was
exciting to see him sling up a cake,
and you'd wonder whether it was go-
ing to land back where he wanted 1t
to or somewhere out in the middle OF
the floor. Lots of folks pass here, and
it got so we had regular window GUS
i toners, as we called them, watching
Louie.
"Pretty soon began to notice
couple of girls that came steady every
day to look. / pointed them out to
Louie and he said he had been MOTTO
/ ing them, too. One morning when we
had our Waitress Wanted sign out.
what if those two Lizzies didn't come
in and bone the boss for a job.
Both Of them got it, too, mind you,
and of all rushing mattresses you ever
gave an order to they were 1t. They
wanted to be sure to hold the job.
you see. so they could be around
where Louie was. He knew it, too, and
il made him more big-heady than ever.
But the stuck-upper he got the better
wheat stacker he grew; and what
with Louie getting the place noticed
from the outside and the two wait
i resses doing twice the work in here
the boss thought he'd got gold mine
on his hands.
/ Things went on this way till Louie
made up his mind he liked one of the
new girls a little better than he did
/ the other, and he started to shine up
/ to her right away. They must have
/ been as good as engaged all right, be-
cause Louie began to root around in
The pawnshops for bargain in a ring
for her. He's a regular old crank on
I that; he'll hunt for bargain in
secondhand set of false teeth.
well, anyway, as soon as Louie's
girl thought everything was all fixed
! up she decided that as she was going
to catch such smart and famous
cake singer she'd better practice up
some bright stunt herself, and she
i started to see how many full meals
she could carry in from the kitchen
at one time without mixing all of
them up in one big piece de relent-
less, as the French say. And, believe
me, before very long she could waltz
/ in here with an armload so big it
made my eyes pop out, and I've seen
some gifted geniuses in that line.
Honest to goodness, it was a caution
/ the way that girl could balance the
dishes. And when she'd sweep in
with pyramid everybody'd hold their
breath, and Louie'd turn around with
smile, as much as to say: Look,
folks, just see what loves me-
"He was that way at first, but it
wasn't long till 1 could notice what
Poetry fellers call a crack in loves
i young dream. Say, would you believe
That Louie got jealous? Folks began
to stop noticing him and started to
watch his sweetheart doing her great
stunt with our pure food products.
| Loves a queer thing, now, amt it?
= swell, anyway Louie stopped nosing
around the unredeemed pledges for az
while and the match was off. He must
have been ashamed to tell her why.
because she kept right on with her
performance. Louie's got an affec-
tionate disposition. though, and right
away he started to get chummy with
Sthe other waitress. And, say, didn't
that poor girl proceed to kill all her
chances of being Louie's blushing
bride by cultivating the same gift as
the other girl and trotting in here
with a tableful of orders bigger'n the
other girl?
Maybe things didn't hum around
here at feeding time! Both the ladies'
were determined to make Louie notice
then for their skill, and he was bound
the public should prefer his turn to
the girls, and business certainly did
rock along. I honestly believe this
place got to be as notorious as the
Art Gallery for about two weeks.
at couldn't last, though Human
nature couldn't hold up under it, let
alone the arms of those two girls. The
crash came one morning in the middle
of the breakfast crowd; and, believe
me. it was crash, too. They both
came out of the kitchen at the same
time, loaded to the muzzles with sup
plies, and somehow they bumped to-
gether right in that open space in