| Show COCKTAIL WENT WRONG circumspect man and abIt walter pleased the woman there Is a certain young man wh Is just at present ruminating over th truism that you can never tell aboul abon women says the new york tribune he came to new york a few years as ag from a western city more noted for it piety than anything else and has beer of late living at an uptown hotel odd ly enough the early piety instilled it ir him was not lasting he had from grace at divers times and in i certain way cultivated a taste for thi th cup that cheers there arrived at h hi hotel recently a little party from hl h home city the party consisted of ar ai old gentleman his wife and thi daughter the old man was a frier of the young mans father and thi th young man had a slight acquaintance acquaint anci anc with both father and daughter thi elderly man asked the younger man t dine with him in the evening and tho th invitation was accept accepted ted when thi dinner hour rolled around the dittli party strolled into the dining room they found the room filled to over oer flowing and it was impossible to ge four seats together after some dela dea it was arranged that the elderly couil should sit at one table and the man and the daughter sat at abnot another her this man had bad acquired a habit of pre facing a dinner with a cocktail hi knew well the feeling of his host oi 01 this subject but he wanted the cocktail badly he knew the waiter also and calling him over told him quietly t bring a cocktail in a teacup thi th wa waiter I 1 ter S smiled m 11 ed knowingly and went oft off S shortly he returned with a teacup an am the young man alone knew it con coltaine conta taine mec a cheering mixture of whisky and bit the waiter was in his day an generation a wise man he had pei fei this particular man drink in the hous under all conditions but never b stealth he set his gigantic brain ti work and he evolved the idea that th see secrecy recy was for the benefit of the P sr and so he set the cup down directly ii 11 front of her and smiled with a sef ef satisfied smirk at the man the mat mai glowered and choked but conic say nothing the girl looked su pi piously at the cup and then pic die e ec it up and smelled it then a gra g ra light came into her face and she fairl beamed she raised the cup to her lipi lip and pausing smiled across at th man and said softly it was so kind of you just what I 1 wanted iwanter no orif OD but you would have thought of it positively it you are a genius and the mellow liquid flowed down th girls throat the man sat and blinked and blinked now he thinks that the th younger generation of that village I 1 r not so bad after all and he la Is talking of making a long postponed visit tc home |
