The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-12

| Provender Ordered by Pantomime.
Some ingenious and very considerable res
taurant man in Chicago has inYented a
mystical sign manual Tor the use or walters
| in cheap restaurants, in order to obviate
their sonorous shouts that resound through
the ears and betray the eccentric tastes or
pecuniary embarrassments of the customers
when they give their orders.
Instead of yelling "three OFF the griddle'
in tone that would startle the seven sleep
ers Of Judea, the waiter will hereafter SIM
| ply clap his hands like congressman out
of postage stamps, and make few myste~
| rious passes at the c.ok secreted in some
Invisible nook and you get your fapjscks
the same day. No noise, no confusion, no
hurry; all dead smooth" with maple
| syrup on them and few stray ants for
very trlfing price of admission.
Still the scheme has its drawbacks like
most other new devices and many old ones.
1t doesn't accurately define the peculiar
style Of cooking that the guest prefers.
| Whether likes his eggs boiled two minutes
or four weeks Ia not indicated in this culinary
pantomime. Likewise with other edibles.
Another serious objection might be
urged. Naturally enough the more observ-
ant guests will eventually fall into the same
signal method of conveying their orders to
the walters. Silence would thus be intro
duced and piled up so thick that the fall Of
a soda cracker would startle the whole
house into perfect panic. Such practices
! grow upon people. Habit is very strong.
Soon these gestures would completely sup
plant restaurant jargon.
Inadvertently an habitue of such res
taurant might some time wander into some
other feed foundry where they use voices
| and silently begin to braDdish his fists at
the waiter. Then would untoward conse-
queaccs ensue. If the servitor didn't sud-
| denly swat the customer over the head with
q tray of dishes or bowl of retired soup
for beligerent demonstrations he would be
apt to les of wild yell and plunge out
uto the street to seek a policeman to take
in" dangerously silent lunatic.
Or in a moment Of abstraction the sign
boarder, SO to speak, might practice his
| little pantomime on barber. Then there
would be just the iveliest sort OF razor
sociable.
Therefore it seems to be more safe and
generally satisfactory to speak your mind
when you are hungry even though you may
not order quail on trust.
Another sharp scheme has broken out on
the Pacific coast. Some time ago woman
giving the name Of Mrs. G.. Watson visit ID
a number of California towns and canvassed
among the fair seq in behalf of an alleged
dress and cloakmaking firm styled Jerome
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business at 1l2 and ia Fifth avenue and
Eighteenth street, New York CITY, Her
J scheme was to sell at 81 each member
ships" which would entitle the buyer to a
book of instructions and catalogue of dress
making, also her right TO have garments
made by the firm at little more than cost.
About fifty ladies of Napa swallowed
the tempting bait, putting up
their dollar and getting printed re-
cepts for the same. After waiting a
month or So and not receiving catalogues
and instructions that were to be forwarded
! from New York, some Of them began to
grow suspicious. They wrote back co the
' firm" and got no answer. Then they
wrote again, and still no answers came
They have now naturally made up their
! minus tlhG InTs. W dtSOu Is u SRlQQleT, ana
the firm Of Werth & Co. a myth. About
sixty Grass Valley ladies were swindled by
the same scheme. 1t was also successfully
worked at Truckee and various other towns.
By this time the Grass Valley as well as the
Truckee ladies are probably Thoroughly
disguised with cheap fashionable gowns
that do not materialize. Should the enter
prising evangelist Of style appear in this
vicinity and attempt to insinuate her re-
ceipts into the feminine pocket-books the
ladies Of Georgia are advised 70 hold fast to
their dollars.
When Citizen George Francis Train re.
Gently met reporter he assumed his high
sea Omaha voice and told about the scufiie
he had with "a mob in New York theater
a few nights since. Owing to the large
number who differed with the itinerant
citizen they were abou. TO subjugate bis
doctrines with clubs. But be says that he hap
pened TO have bis psyche with him and he
slugged one marauder with that and threw
him out Of a window. Such argument as
that ought 70 e0aYinee the belligerent indi-
} yidual that there was no room for hi IA Ia
the debate. When the citizen gets bis old
reliable psychic 70 working bis ensniss have
" turn corners quick.