Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1919 — SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER [ARTICLE]

SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER

Imperious Guest Made Great Mistake in Engaging in Controversy With Hefty Waitress. “A guest came bulging out of the dining room yesterday with rivulet* and rills of ketchup coursing down his face,” related the landlord of the Petunia tavern, “and yelling that he had been assassinated or misconstrued or something. ’Peared like he had bit onto a tack In his fritters, and when he chided Sylphie, the hefty waitress, she busted the condiment over him. Also he wanted to know what I was going to do about it. “‘Well, Mr. Hollar,’ says I, ‘when you found a tack !n your viands -it was an accident, but when you talked so that she smashed the ketchup on your head to a young lady who served her apprenticeship as a waitress on a boarding car for a railroad construction gang, that was- contributory negligence, and I can’t do anything for you except to hand your bill to you and wish you well on your journey.”—Kansas City Star. x