St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-25

fool around with the bill of fare trying
to make up their minds what they want.
and eventually give an order for lot
of
DISHES THEY DON'T WANT.
Then they keep the girl hustling to
and from the kitchen changing things.
Women have very little consideration
for those they consider their interiors.
Men are, as rule, more considerate to
girls than they are to MEN, but you
sometimes find a Grabbed specimen,
who makes himself disagreeable
to a girl. Then the girls all
get onto him, and he gets waited
on just about as they like, and usually
gets the worst of it. 1t never pays to
antagonize the girl who waits on YOU.
She has great power. for good or evil,
as your comfort is very dependent upon
your digestion, and if she makes up her
mind to do it she can ruin your gastric
economy in short order. l knew girl
once who was about as cute little thing
as ever lived. Her name was Katie.
She waited in the dining room of hotel
in an Eastern city, and was about the
best waitress who ever brought ME a
rare steak OF liver and bacon. She had
table which seated twelve to attend
to, and as soon as the bell rang every
seat was instantly occupied. They
didn't have bills of fare or anything
.toney OF that sort at that hotel,
just /, plain ordinary food. and
Katie used to. run around and put her
little lips close to our ears and whisper.
Observation-Disclosures rstewedchic k
en?" When she secured eyerybody's
order, which took her about as long as
- \ cf crirIc 70 fhaf of
man, she would disappear into the
kitchen and we would talk politics for
about half, q minute. Then she reap
reared with vast tray on her head,
surmounted by a veritable pyramid of
plates and dishes. She swung it down
on one hand aud deposited the contents
opposite each man in shorter time than
it takes to relate. She never made
mistake in an order. That girl was
Jewel: she almost made me nervous by
the rapidity and precision with which
she did things. Then Kate either
DIED OR GOT MARRIED,
forgot which, and we used to swear at
the next girl we had. / remember one
night she served all twelve of US, but
not one of us began to eat. We all sat
and gazed straight in front OF us, like
cows looking over fence. The girl
looked uneasy then she moved around
and gazed at the table, blushed, hest
tated. and. sending cloud OF vapOr of
onions trickling gently through my
whiskers, asked me what was the mat
er. Napkins" remarked lac0ni cally.
Napkins" re-echOed the twelve. Smith
never forgot the napkins again-she
didn't have a chance, as she was fired
next day.
We used to have little bit of girl
at hotel once frequented. l never
knew her name, but we used to call her
Little Betty Two-Feet-Four," because
she was just two feet four high. When
giving us our food she had to climb on
the back of the chair and drop the
plates over our shoulders. One time
She poured some soup down the back
of my neck. The soup was that kind
that has potatoes and clans, bits of ba-
con and things in it, and as these slowly
trickled down between my andershiIt
and skin they did not feel nice. Another
time she fell into the soup, and | guess
she was drowned: anyway, we saw her
no more, and we didn't mourn.
But these girls have their woes as well
as those upon whom they wait. Their
hours are long, the work hard and pay
u
dress neatly in clean. light print dresses,
and their washing bills must amount to
tits the help in the small
hotels who have the hardest work, those
in the large ones having a comparative
ly easy time of it, as they work in
watches, while in the small houses
few girls have all the work to do, both
doing up the rooms and waiting on table
as we'll as washing dishes and frequently
AssISTEDiIN THE COOKING.
The question is frequently asked,
sWhat becomes of all the hotel girls?"
They change and keep on changing,
new ones ever filling the places of those
who go. DO they all leave to get mar.
ried? What becomes of them it is diff
cult to say. No one ever heard OF a
hotel girl dying, and it is therefore fair
to assume that they never die, at least
as hotel girls. Their morality is too
often questioned, but it is safe to say
their morals arc fully equal
to the standard of the women,
and vastly superior to those
of the men upon whom they wait. They
have little time for frivolity. bat go to
bed tired out after their days work,
ONLY to rise early for another day of the
SAME exhausting kind. Their work
could be made much easier if some peO-
Die would only think a minute, men
tally change places with them. The re-
sult of the Thought would be more con-
sideratiOn and fewer useless errands.
Some fellows think they can firt with
girls in hotels. This as rule is a mis-
take. If girl flirts with a man the
head waiter promptly fires her. This is
so mall firstrate hotels.