Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1911 — SHIELDED THE LADY. [ARTICLE]

SHIELDED THE LADY.

A Tactful Head Waiter Balked an Offensive Hotel Guest. To illustrate an incident that oc- ; curved in a hotel uptown the other night, where, if you are not known, you have to produce some sort of patent of absolute respectability, construct a rectangle, lettering the imaginary diagonal corners A, B, C and D: A represents a solitary male person 'dining. B represents a comely person !of the opposite sex seated at another table with a party. 0 represents a head waiter and D a group of the unemployed waiters. Let the line AB represent an admiring look that travels continuously. BA represents a look of annoyance. CA and CB are comprehending glances directed by the head waiter. 1 The point C moves toward D, making a triangle. After a whispered direction a figure which may be termed O, because it represents a particularly rotund waiter, moves from the point D until it reaches a point on the line AB. C moves back to position. A finds that his ogle stops at O, which he cannot see through, and calls Oto take an order. Thereupon C motions toward D, when another waiter, traveling on the line DA, effects, a junction with A and goes off at a tangent. A cranes his neck, stretching to one side or the other, but it cannot get tpast O. The result is that A finally sees what Is up, finishes his coffee in sheepish disgust and leaves the room. —New York Sun.