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Show HOW WE READ PAPERS. Pen Pictures With Which W. Are all familiar Caught in Restaurants. One of the most amusing phases of human nature may be seen in any of the cheaper class of restaurants during the early morning morn-ing hours, says the Chicago Herald. It is the manner in which the different customers make use of the privilege of perusin- the theTnKrfKWhich are furnished gratis for 1" 8. the Ptron. of these places. Here 1 n. ' who 8eats himself and at once in I Jt Walter to brinff him newspaper no a.?T BS commanding if be owned ' own, but several of the outly- o, tC hurned'y glaneesover the first Sn?n; tl j f ap.er' Scans tne headings, then cwL sheet quickly as if his salvation Vnw k-ed, DDOn hls at the editorials. ! er iaw drPs. his eJ bulge out and he contracts the skin on his forehead as thiht Were, in.deeP thought But he is not ,1?'' he,ls reading with his open mouth. His order" is set before him. He now looks at the fifth page np and down and crosswise, then half turns in his chair, so snuint IftlTt1 lh paPer' and takcs a squint at the last page, after which ho reverses re-verses it again, looks hurriedly over it P!Aypae' and Places ifc on nis knees aZ1 no ne ele can get it, thereby demonstrating the porcine nature of his character. After finishing his breakfast "j "rows the paper ou the table and then Another man comes in a veteran at the business. He grabs a paper, folds it in the ?h,ape.l?..a "cai programme, or about tne width of two columns, and places it before be-fore him, leaning the top on the sugar bowl, iiis plate propping up the lower end. He lakes a sip of coffee with one eye on the sheet and one on his plate, and while cutting his meat he is reading of a sui-itte, sui-itte, with a startled expression upon ill. countenance, which wou,(, indicate that he had lost his appetite. Per-naps Per-naps he is peeling one of those perennial per-ennial potatoes, somewhat of the consistency con-sistency of paving stones, but he continues to glare at the paper, then at the potato, and then back again, sometimes forgetting himself him-self and holding the potato motionless in midair whi.e he reads some unusually interesting inter-esting item. He seems to be sfrM f l f mg time, yet the alternate glancing from the one object of his attention to the other fritters frit-ters away many minutes, and at the end of half an hour he has has digested neither his breakfast nor his newspaper. o Kin.thv? ,utomer P!aces the paper on the table to his left and leans over and reads a line or two between alternate bites. The man who is a slow reader puts the paper in the same position on the table and traces each line with his finger as a guide for fear that he will "lose his place," and when the tough steak requires the use of both hands he takes a knife from the next cover and laces it on the line where he left off otherwise other-wise he might forget that he he had read the article and re-read it Nine men in ten open their mouths on reading a paper, as if tbey expected to imbibe im-bibe its contents in the manner in which they take their food. Seven in ten wrinkle their foreheads as if in deep thought and greatly interested in the affairs of the world inese are the ones who turn a newspaper over, page by page, read all of the headings, then return to the beginning and read the various articles, missing none. They peruse 'ull as a duty. . |
