| Show to tell a mans it was a young married woman who spoke she was dining with her husband on the piazza of a hotel if yon have any doubt said she about the relationship of a man and woman when you see them at a place like this there is one very sure way of settling whether or not they are married when the waiter makes out the check for the dinar watch the man who ia if he nervously at the check crushes it indis band anil bands the waiter a ten dollar bill without looking to tee how much he owes he is engaged to the girl who ia with him and standa in mortal dread of her opinion of him if he takes the check and scans it with some care and then quietly band to the waiter a sum approximating alk total he is very likely engaged to alio pirl and is willing for her to think him businesslike and precise if however he allows the waiter to place the check on the table and leaves it there for hig companion to see and study then aliey are married it is only the married man dining with his wife who will sit back and of while his check awaits settlement in full view of the lady opposite before marriage he would not allow her mind to realize anything so unromantic as the price of the delicate viands she consumed and even during the engagement he would not permit her to think of such material questions A year after marriage however they discuss together the prices on the bill of fare and when the check is made out the wife ia more anxious than the husband to know liow much it comes to therefore the married man allows hia dinner checks to remain on the table for his cifes inspection new york letter |
