When I think of how big a dollar seems to me, the tuition looks like the national debt of Mexico; but when I try to figure out how much it costs the college per student, I feel as though I were paying lunch-counter prices for a dining-car dinner.

He spent some time in the lavatory, washing, arranging his hair, straightening his tie, after which he made his way into the elaborate dining-car and found a comfortable corner seat.

"There are your M.P.," I said to the Corporal, as we trooped slowly out of the dining-car.

At the door of the dining-car stood the porter of his Pullman, a negro like himself, and Peter mechanically gave him fifty cents.

Beyond the dining-car and Pullmans stretched twelve day-coaches filled with less-opulent white travelers in all degrees of sleepiness and dishabille from having sat up all night.

For a few moments they halted to watch the dining-car express for Euston pass with a roar and a crash as she dashed down the incline towards Crieff Junction.

We have a dining-car on our Bordeaux express to-day, the first since war was declared.

On the way to Berlin from Koln, that rainy afternoon, I went into the dining-car toward five o'clock attired in a pepper-and-salt tweed suit and heavy tan boots, and, speaking German with evident pain, tactfully askedeverybody else drinking beerfor tea.

The dining-car was full, and the waiters all busy.

"In the car between this and the dining-car, there's a Mr. Hilliard," she announced when the porter arrived.

"He's in the car between this and the dining-car.

Not far ahead, also bound for the dining-car, was Mr. Hilliard.

Our train more and more resembled a small rolling town It had even its casino, this dining-car in which we were gathered at the moment.

"Who knows what the dining-car kitchen will give us on the Chinese railways?

But at the dining-car luncheon on the last day's run, Penelope, languishing at a table for two with an unresponsive Ormsby for a vis-à-vis, made sly mention of the possible recrudescence of one David Kent at a place called Gaston: this merely to note the effect upon an unresponsive table-mate.

Six hours there were; and a dining-car dinner intervened.

He's a dining-car waiter.

I don't know whether or not the cry "Last call for the dining-car" affects others as it affects me, but for me it always has a stern, fateful sound, suggestive of momentous opportunity fast slipping away, opportunity that can never come again; and, on the occasions when I have disregarded it, I have been haunted with a sense of the neglected "might-have-been.

I know that they have heard that last fearful call to the dining-car of lifeand, poor souls, they have probably found it closed.

He knows when the train will stop to water, wait for news of the trestle ahead, drop the dining-car, slip into a siding to let the West-bound mail go by, or yell through the thick night for an engine to help push up the bank.

Instead of which he went into the dining-car.

He sat comfortably among pillows and rugs, his breakfast brought in from the dining-car and served in his section by a waiter who was ready to show him every attention, to oblige the young lady whose smile he liked to win.

And yet he had heard folk say that Arizona was a desert, But then such folk had been interested chiefly in guide-posts of the highways or the Overland dining-car menu.

When he left the compartment for the dining-car he saluted and bowed stiffly.

I bought a seat in the Washington sleeper and went into the dining-car for supper.