Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1885 — A Lunch Novelty. [ARTICLE]

A Lunch Novelty.

At a lunch party at the elegant borne of Prof. Swing, in Chicago, a dear little society lady chatted so constantly and so brilliantly that the other guests could neither partake of the feast nor get in a word edgewise themselves. They were delighted, but hungry. At last the Professor, whose eyes had been fixed in a glassy stare on some blanketed oysters, ala Soyer, rose from his chair at the foot of the table and, approaching the guest of honor, he seized an embroidered satin napkin, and, with a dexterous movement, dropped it over the lady’s head and completely shut off the flow of eloquence. “That is the way I serve my canary,” said the Professor, laughingly, “when he sings better than I do.” It is needless to say that the Professor’s happy thought added greatly to the merriment of the occasion and no one was offended, least of all the charming heroine of the occasion.