Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1880 — His Square Meal. [ARTICLE]

His Square Meal.

One day recently, as one of our prominent business men was about to enter his favorite resort for dinner, he was accosted by an individual with a decidedly careworn expression, who begged that he would assist him to get something to eat. As the man looked like a worthy object of charity, the gentleman told him to go in, and directed the waiter to give him 25 cents’ worth of food and charge it to his check. After finishing his own dinner the gentleman was proceeding to settle for his check, when, noticing a humorous look on the waiter’s face, he asked him what the hungry man had ordered. The reply was: “.Five glasses of lager. ’’—Boston Advertiser.