She Was A Lady

Chicago Oheek. A fresh marriod couple camo into Chicago one ovening last week and put up at the best hotel in the city. Iustoad of going in at the ladies' entrance, the man escorted his bride clear through the rotunda, and stumbled upstairs, found a parlor, and leaving her there camo down to tho oíRce to register. He also made one or two other delirious breaks which attracted tho attention of the night clerk. When he carne to tho register he wrote in a tangió leg sort of a scrawl : "Mr.- - and lady." 'That's your wife, I presumo ?" inquired thoclerk, blandly. 'You bet she's my wifo,' replied tho man, with an aromatic odor of anger in his tone. 'Make it so, then, on the rogister, ploase,1 suffffosted tho clerk. 'Wliat !' said the man, stairing like a loor setting a covey of prairie chickens. 'Please make t 'and wife' on tho reifïster, 'Whv, don't yon think my wii'e is a lady?' nquired tlicnewly hatchcd 1 band. 'Not the least doubt of it in the world, my dear sir, bat the rules of the house make it imperativo pon all married guests to sign as husband and wife. 'You don't supposo I'd bring a woman here to stay if she wasn'.t my wife, do you ?' asked the man choking a linie, and trembling at the corners of bis mouth 'Oh no ; but you jast make it 'and wife' and tliat will bo all right,' said tho clerk pacifically. ¦ 'And you are willing to admit that íhe's a lady ?' 'Whj', of coursc ; no one disputes that.' The man slowly erased the word 'lady' and wroto 'wiió' just above it. 'I hato to do that,' he murmured, 'I haven't been married but two days, and it looks as though I was going plum back on Eliza. I want you to under.staud, and I want the rest of you fellows to understand, that Eliza' s dad is worth over 20,000, and if she ain't a lady you ain't got any ladies in Chicago. Understand that, gentlemen, she's a lady of the iirst water and no mistake. I don't scratch her on my own account, but just to keep longsidc the rulos of this cussed boarding house. And there ain't any of you fellows as wants to say sho ain't a lady either.'