Show LADY AND THE COCKTAIL Showing Tat You Can I Never Tell About Women There Is a certain young man who is just at present ruirlnatlng over the truism that you can never tell about women says the New York Tribune He came to New York a few years ago from a western city more noted for Its piety than anything ese and has been I of late living at an uptown hotel I Oddly enough the early piety Instilled in him was not lasting he has slipped 1 from grace at divers times and In a I certain way cultivated a taste for the cup that cheers There arrived at the hotel recently a little party from his home city The party consisted of an old gentleman his wife and their I daughter The old man was a friend of the young mans father and the i I i S young man had a slight acquaintance I wit both father and daughter The elderly man asked the younger one to j dine with him in the evening and the invitation was accepted I When the dinner hour rolled around the little party strolled Into the dining room They found the room filled to overflowing and it was impossible to I get four seats together After some delay it was arranged that the elderly I couple should sit at one table and the young man and the dughter sit at another This man had acquired a habit of prefacing a dinner with a cocktail He knew well the feeling of his host on this subject but he wanted the cocktail badly He knew the waiter also and calling him over told him qultely to bring a cocktail in a teacup The waiter smiled knowln hand h-and went off Shortly he returned I with a teacup and the young man j i alone knew that It contained a cheerful cheer-ful mixture of whisky and bitters I The waiter was In his day and generation gen-eration a wise man He had seen this I particular man drink In the house under all conditions but never by I stealth He set his gigantic brain to work and he evolved the idea that the secrecy was for the benefit of the girl and so he set the cup down directly rectly in front of her and smiled with a selfsatisfied smirk at the man The man glowered and choked but could say nothing The girl looked suspiciously suspici-ously at the cup and then picked i up and smelled It Then a great light came into her face and she fairly beamed She raised the cup to her lips and pausing smiled across at the man and said softly I was ao kind of you Just what I wanted No one but you would have thought of It Positively you are a genius And while the mellon liquid flowed down the girls throat the man sat and blinked and blinked Now he thinks that the younger generation of I that village Is not so bad after all and he is talking of making I a longpost poned visit to his home I |