Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-11

the bread, the garcon came running in
with the tea and toast, which with many
f1ourishes he placed upon the table.
"De you take cream in your tea?'
asks the white-aproned attendant.
:'Why, certainly; never drank cup
of tea without milk in my life.
"Sugar?"
Eyes"
FOne or two lumps?'
please let me attend to these mat
tiers, - was the customers modest APP
peal.
Attention of this kind is positively tire
> same to any one who does not depend
upon his mother to arrange his toilet in
the morning. If the customer had not
been elegantly dressed he would have re-
ceived the barest possible service.
It NAV be that the trade of the shah
billy attired man is more valuable to the
proprietor than the customer who takes
special pride in his personal appearance,
but the latter gets all the attention.
docs the waiter get the fee?' some
one may ask.
Certainly. If he did not the customer
who had failed to pay two prices for what
he bought would not be seen when he
again entered the restaurant.
Walters have cultivated the art of not
seeing such a customer, and he might sit
at the table for fifteen minutes before one
would take interest enough in him TO IN
-quire as to his wants.
: AS quite generally practiced nova
DAYS the whole feeling system is the
worst sort of blackmail, and it is
wonder proprietors of eating houses per-
NIT it, 1t may put a few dollars INTO
the pockets of walters, but out of the
till of the proprietor 1t keeps many more
If the gentleman in question had. not,
been well-dressed his tea and toast
would have cost him according to the
bill Of fare, certain price, not Is cents
more given to the waiter. This is
another penalty of being well attlred.
Still another is when the well-dressed
man goes to the barber shop for a shave.
When he goes in boy grabs his cane,
hat and coat and hides them in some
corner of the place. If the chairs are
all filed, the boy brings for the delecta-
ton Of the waiting customer, paper
with flash pictures. When he is lucky
or unIucky enough to get a vacant seat
the manipulation of the shears and razor
goes slowly to work, as though time were
not money. In soft and unmusical tones
he regales his customer with tales of no
interest and. heartily laughs at his own
variations. These little attentions are
given with the expectation of being re-
warded with fee.
He cares nothing for the proprietor's
interests, which are secondary. He uses
up half q dozen clean towels, and throws
bay rum around just as If it didn Z cost
cent a gallon. He is q dashIDg fellow
generally. With neat turn OF the
piece of calico which has enveioped his
customer, he jerks it of, and eXultingly
excIaims, as though he had done some
thing wonderful, ''There you are.
Then the boy gets il his fine work. He
gets your coat and hat, and when you
put them on begins to dust imaginary
dust of your vest and trousers. Next he
wants to shine your boots, although they
are glistening. And your little trip to
the tonserial dec has cost you for one
shave. Is cents, feeling barber. 10 cents;
removing imaginary dust, 10 cents.
Total, 80 cents.
With ordinary clothes on n customer
would have gotten out of the shop with
20 cents more in HIS pocket.
A well-drdsssd R1!aR As the target for
eveSE street fnendteant, too. This class
of Iazs idlers 1ayin wait, as it were, for
him. They accost htuasanywhere. every