Telegram-herald., 1890-07-27


SAIL ~zs for alto served Il the pr1-
F4te rOozns.' DEts. Il ecCrse, meant
tllAt eoul3 get the ssule 1Ee--zi@ss -
TIE che described ju=t above u II i2.-r
zal-ln Eals 49, ~ clear taat l tl-sl-4-
e 1E Arthur 2nd hs went away. L4-'A-
Ing as the item above it l foazd 1n-' Il
res1- "p~leanzr = "a Fr2ne4lse = a carte
seryi dans L. Irsnd restaurant tVoyez =
menu 4e ioar) de IL Q 80 aeares-
l told Sir Arthur - passed oat that l
Was aot vel az al. and thaE TIE rlee
across ths channel hai knocked me
horizontally aad perpeRclculaTly and
dlagonally, 50 that | guessed Tculd
oLnit breakfast a prix nxe. or "A carte,
Or salle a m4nger then went cat .
htrle hole Il the wall and got = good
breakfast for one-aAd-sixs 4nd when l
gave the waiter sixpencs for his arten-
u0n be Wzs - OVerconls that he almost
begged ms u walk On him and see how
grateful ais system would fee TO nay feet.
Dogs are only admitted 70 the hotel
On proper indOrsement. A letter from
the pastor Is preferred. They cannot
remain, however, after they have broken
over any of the rules OF the house.
The board OF control invite complaints,
it Is said (unless they are chronic com
plants, OF course). and ask everybody 10
report % tho bureau every case where
guests have been fatally injured by at
iendants. 50 that luggage may DC disposed
OF az beet market prices.
The Savoy Is a good hotel, however.
Joking aside, and the French language
Is the most difficult matter TO cope with
Of anything Ia the house. Maj. James
b. Pond. who went over 70 secure Stan
lev for America, recently stopped at tho
Savoy. He and William Carey, Of The
Century, together with Villers, the art
Isl, sat in the hotel cafe one evening
ready % eat, and in fact with their order
in and partially filed. Directly one OF
the party decided before beginning 10
order a small slug Of rye whisky. He
made the garcOn understand it through
Mr.. Villers, who talks French with great
ease. Noticing az the garcon was about
10 start out that he had no butter he
told him also 70 bring some butter. After
some pleasant persifage, bon homme
| and roccoonter on the part OF the gen.
tlernen the garcon returned with nice
thin glass OF rye whisky, floating on top
Of which was a COB Of surprised and
terror stricken butter.
Most all foreign people who have not
Travelled avoid being surprised at any
thing an American orders, and try
quickly to fll his order. They are led to
/ believe that the American likes espe-
cially a searching drink. and that any
thing which Will make him enivre with
/ out loss Of time is what the rough and
tough cuss, with his trunks full of moss
agates, scads and scalps, is most joyously
in search Of. This is mistake.
Man is constantly misjudging his
/ kind We misjrdge the foreigner; we
| think he will be interested entirely in Us
and ourselves; we forget that he feels
some interest in himself and his pros
poets. That is one way we misjudge the
foreigner, overlooking the fact that 1.-The
greatest bore is the man who persistently
talks about himself while we desire to
I talk about ourselves"
We also overdo IN our efforts TO aston
ish people. We try 10 astonish our own
people here with the growth of our town.
our public school and our court house.
We lie about the phenomenal growth OF
our town and calmly prevaricate about
the number of our inhabitants till tho
census is taken and we are disgraced.
Then we lay it to the slothful enum-
orator.
Mr.. Edmund Russell. the Delsartist.
misjudged the foreigner few weeks
ago. also. He thought that what the
English people wanted was realism, so
he gave them some that ne was not using