Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-10-18

fresh air of the country, forgetting for the
time, away from the sight of stone and brick,
mat you are In the midst of the mightiest city
Of the world.
HOTELS AND BOARDING HOUSES.
The hotels here are worthy of notice-oHly
Tor their meanncSs. The English are totally
ignorant Of the system of American hotel
Keeping, and do not possess hotel comparable
IN size or convenience to the Bay State or the
Lincoln House A hotel is simply a collection
OF rooms with restaurant attached and here
too they are sadly deficient for l have been
unable TO find restaurant in any way com
parable with the first-class restaurants in Wor.
cester AS you enter hotel you will invaria-
bly, meet first the kitchen, in which there is al
rays lady who will assign you room. She
Is the clerk of the house. Everything that
goes INTO the restaurant must pass over the
counter in this ''Offce Kitchen and be ac-
counted for by the waiter who orders it. You
find no reading room no smoking room; no
drawing room; no office room. Everything
and everybody is dull, stupid and unendura-
Die, and any American who can endure Lon
don hotel for more than two nights, might
agreeably spend the remainder of his days in
tomb. Everybody, however, who remains
here any length of time, secures apartments in
private houses, and is furnished with meals in
his room, or goes to restaurant, as best suits
his fancy
Every street contains several houses of this
KIND, which are i'll fact nothing else than small
hotels, containing from four to ten rooms.
Here you ENJOY all the comforts and conven-
lencles OF home, and after weeks residence
you become better satisfied and more contented
than you could be in an American hotel.
ENGLISH ETIQUETTE.
The English waiter is a peculiar character
courteous, kind, Obging, and of very indefin-
lie answers to your interrogatories, capable of
l0ugh'ng at any joke, very attentive and obedi-
ent without being servile, and withal a very
agreeable person to have at hand. You al
ways find him in dress coat, and the remain
der OF his suit to match, while the gentleman
more frequently dresses in the toughest kind
OF clothes, and never wears a dress coat ex-
cept when IN the presence of his superior or at
a dinner or dress party. You are not aHoued
Jormdty In the presence of any of the Royal
family without the dress coat For the same
reason, servants are not allowed to appear be-
fore their superiors, except in full dress. One
would be frequently puzzled to know which
was the master, and which the servant, were
1t not for the dress coat. Servants must also
wear white gloves when on duty, though this
RUE does not apply to servants in restaurants
or hotels This appears singular TO Ameri-
cans, who permit everybody to dress as thew
please, but it arises from the custom which re-
quires the inferior, no matter who he is, to ap-
pear before his superior in full dress.
In order to appear before the Queen it is
necessary to wear court dress, similar in
many respects to military uniform There
are numerous places i'll London where court
suits may be hired at any time, at a moder-
ate charge, and during the proper season this
becomes very lucrative business. A. SD