Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1894 — The Bill for a Dinner. [ARTICLE]

The Bill for a Dinner.

One often hears something funny by simply keeping one’s ears open. A day or two ago I overheard a well-known Union Club chappie ordering a dinner at Del's for quito a large party. He was most careful about getting everything just right, but the most circumspect thing of all that he ordered was tne whispered admonition to tho head waiter: “And be sure to soo that the bill is not brought to the table after dinner.” This was surely a great piece of consideration, not only for himself bid for his guests. There is always an awkward pause at every dinner given in a public restaurant when the bill is presented. The guests all try to look as if they hadn't eaten anything at all, while the host, as he runs his eye down the long list of items, wonders how they could have oaten so much.—New York Recorder.