HE HAD TO PAY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11157, 21 December 1907, Page 5 (Supplement)

HE HAD TO PAY.

Mayor Stoy, of Atlantic City, was talking Gliristmas dinners. "If one is going to give a. Christmas dinner," he - said, "it is. best to give a good, even a lavish one. ■Then *pne does not g:et 'up from the. table with, xemorse gnawing at ! the heart, asi was the case lasjbj year . -with, an ..-..-Cityi ybung man.; ■:■>•"•• ■■'': ; -- : .V' "-;,••■ '■'-'■'■'■■■ ' : "S-' ■■■>'■•■-! "He took his fiancee and her mother to a Christmas dinner m a York restaurant. Arriving at the restaurant a little before the; two women, he orderedi the-dinner, and then, said to the waiter : "'Look here; TU call, for two of champagne after the fish, but you just loviiig that champagne cider m the fancy bpttle instead. It's good stuff, arid the women won't know the difference.' i ; " 'Very well, ,sir,'"isaid the waiter. "Then the two women arrived^ and the dinner went off splendidly. 'The -champagne was ordered, the cider was brought, and neither guest perceived the deception. . On -.the contrary, theybqth prais-ed'-the cluimpagne and> drank" he&rtily of ■"it,-"'- ..■•■■ ■ -■" ■",'■'■'" ''■ 'IV/:1 V/ : ';■''' I "But when ihe bill came at the "din- 1 ner's end, the young man's face darkened.! He beckoned to the waiter, and with nods and wiriks galore pointed to' the wine item, " 'Waiter, there's some mistake about this charge, isn't tbere?' "'Oh, no, sir,' said the waiter. "ISvo bottles of champagne, eight dollars. That was what you ordered, sir.'' ' "'Certainly. Two bottles of champagne. We remember /your ordering them/ the women chorused." " 'But— — ,'■ said the young man, winking and. nodding like a steam engine at the waiter. " 'The bill- is quite correct, sir,' said the waiter, firmly. - ' i ,-/. ! "The women looked at him reproachfully, and the' young man. could do nothing* but pay up." ,