The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-27


s. Thought that little idem with servia
On it, and Their dance to my apparte--
meilts, would just hit my rather delicate
taste.
Sir Arthur then told me that / was
erroneous. The order I had given, he
said, was for "ditto served in the pri-
vats rooms" Ditto, of course, meant
that could get the same breakfast as
the one described just above it for four
shillin'. This was so clear that thank
ed Sir Arthur and he went away. Look
ing at the item above it ! found that it
read, ''Dejeuner a La Franchise a la carte
servi dams lie Grand restaurant (voyez lie
menu de jour- de Ito a 80 heures."
told Sir Arthur as passed out that
was not well at all, and that the ride
across the channel had knocked me
horizontally and perpendicularly and
diagonally, SO that guessed | would
omit breakfast a prix txe. or 81 La carte.
or sale a Manager. then went out to
little hole in the wall and got a good
breakfast for one-and-six, and when
gave the waiter a sixpence for his atten
ton he was so overcome that he almost
begged me to walk on him and see how
grateful his system would feel to my feet.
Dogs are only admitted to the hotel
On proper Endorsement. 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 to
report to the bureau every case where
guests have been fatally injured by at
PENDANTS, SO that luggage may be disposed
Of at best market prices.
The Savoy is good hotel, however,
joking aside, and the French language
is the most difficult matter to cope with
of anything in the house. Maj. James
B. Pond, who went over to secure Stan
ley for America, recently stopped at the
Savoy. He and William Carey, of The
Century, together with Villers, the art
list, sat in the hotel cafe one evening
ready to eat, and in fact with their order
in and partially filed. Directly one OF
the party decided before beginning tc
order q small slug of rye whisky. He
made the garcon understand it through
Mr.. Villers, who talks French with great
ease. Noticing as the garcon was about
to start out that he had no butter he
told him also to bring some butter. After
some pleasant persifage, bon hommt
and raccoonter on the part of the gen
tlemen the garcon returned with nict
thin glass of rye whisky, floating on tor
of which was COB of surprised an(
terror stricken butter
| Most all foreign people who have no
Travelled avoid being surprised at any
thing an American orders, and tt.
quickly to fill his order They are led t.
believe that the American likes espe
cially searching drink, and that any
thing which will make him enivre with
out loss of time is what the rough an(
tough cuss, with his trunks full of mos
agates, scads and scalps, is most joyousl.
in search of. This is mistake.
Man is constantly misjudging hi
kind We misjudge the foreigner; W
think he will be interested entirely in u
and ourselves;7 we forget that he feel
some interest in himself and his pros
poets. That is one way we misjudge tn
foreigner, overlooking the fact that eth
greatest bore is the man who PERSISTENT
talks about himself while we desire t
talk about ourselves"
We also overdo in our efforts to aston
ish people. We try to astonish our ow
people here with the growth of our town
our public school and our court house
We lie about the phenomenal growth o
our town and calmly prevaricate ahou
the number of our inhabitants till tn
census is taken and we are disgraced
Then we lay it to the slothful enun
orator. 10 .551
, Mr. Edmund Russell, the Delsartist
misiudged the foreigner a few week
ago. also. He thought that what tn
English people wanted was realism, S
he gave them some that he was not usin