The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-01-23
Opinions Of Il Waitress.

(From the New York Sun.)
yes said the waitress in the down
town restaurant, as she smoothed out
her apron with one hand while she
pushed the curls to the top of her fore
head with the other eve have our
troubles just like any one else While
it's outer sight in some respeks, jerk
in hash amt no bed of roses. 1t looks
easy, but it's bad on the nerves. If
there wasn't good money in it, l
wouldn't be in it little while.
I've been at it three or four years
now, and so don't mind lots of little
things that worry some of the girls a
good deal 1t was hard enough,
though, when was breakin in, Dyer
want milk'n sugar? All right! Don't
get excited. The business amt gonter
move. What was I sayin' then? oh,
yes. When I began l had an awful
hard time of it. That's the reason al
ways feel so sorry for new girl. She's
so apt TO make bad breaks.
See that little blonde girl over there?
The one with the plate of graham
bread? Well, all the men saw she was
brand-new the first day she was herein
lley all SQSSQ uei So lllsil size Sol Iel-
tled'n broke lot of dishes. l guess she
cried over it for couple of days. The
boss was goin' to fire her, but some of
us girls that has their regular custom
ers told him to give her shown he did.
She learned all rightn now she does as
well as any of them. Draw one!
"She ulster be a typewriter, but she
couldn't make much at that. There's
too many typewriters nowadays, l
guess. I don't mean first-class ones,
but just the plinkety-plink kind. You
know, the kind that just imagines
they're in a parlor and playin the plan
ner when they're workin' the machine.
They hypnotic themselves so much
like that they don't find out anything
about the business they're workin' in,
and SO when they've been in a place a
little while'n think they just got it all
their own way, they git fired. That's
what was the matter with the blonde.
She had lots Of good jobs, but she
couldn't keep any of them over month.
Dyer want it rarer well done? Right!
That Teller was an awful crank.
He's not here'n hope he won't come
back. AS was sayin', if it wasn't for
the money the blonde wouldn't be here
now. She makes three or times as
much as she would at typewritin'.
She's ashamed to have any of her
; friends know she's workin' here. I
hear she makes a stagger at susciety
when she's away from here. I asked
her several times about that but she
wouldn't say nawthn' about it. l
guess it amt so very we'll at that, don't
yer Williamsburg, l guess.
Williamsburg a funny place, amt
it? Ever been over there? That's
where they blow all their money on
good clothes'n spend all their lives try
in to guess what susciety is. Sure!
! And-that rice is mine, Mamie--when
they die their last words are: L give 1t
upr
Still, I don't blame her for not want
in people to know she works in place
like this, if she makes any kind of
stagger at susciety. You see, a girl
don't git SO much wages here, but she
J makes a good deal in tips. If she only
: jolEes the men little she'll get lots of
tips. You'd be surprised to know how
much some of the girls make. I amt
5 goin' to tell you, because it's none of
your business. And we girls have a
rule among ourselves never to tell any
thin about each other, anyway; so it
wouldn't do you no good to ask me. A
girl gifts so much money here that she
! can afford to dress good and make a
stagger at susciety; but it's susciety
/, that makes it so hard for us.
mamie. over there went to party a
t couple Of weeks ago and was intro
! duced to a splendid young man. Ma
g | ia,c Mt n Nd ha yrO1Y 10 IN
he fetched to the party with him
! couldn't dance much, so the young man
e danced with her a good 'eal. The
s young lady he fetched didn't like 1t
$ very much, although she's one of Ma
e mics best friends. When Mamie and
: the young man and the young woman
: were sittin' together the young man
q yes, sir; right away--said to Mamie he
e thought he'd seen her before some
e where's, the young lady he fetched tc
: the party was awful mean, because she
G said: wouldn't be surprised il you
i had seen her before. She does a turn
: in a beanery downtown every day
n Wasn't that mean of her? Why, this
{ amt no beanery a'tall
: "Thems the things that make it un-
t pleasant for us. 1t amt nice to have tc
7 put up with such things, even in susci-
/ ETY.. You can't answer back and git
personal, because when ladies git per
: sonal they amt ladies. Then when you
u go to the theater yer likely to see SONS
e one that knows you down here. With
e some it's all night, don't yer know
e They'll treat you just the same as il
{ they never saw you here. Why. there
II useter be young man come here-use
: ter set where you are now-that was 8
regular swell. He was sick ant
l. couldn't eat much, and he got hi
J breakfast and lunch here for couple
n of months. He gave me a quarter TO
II myself every time he got anythin' t.
Il eat here. One night I saw him in DO,
u at the theater with a small crowd.
e happened to meet him when l was go
ing out, and he gave me the grand sa
lutte just as if was Mrs. Vanderbilt Of
somebody like-yes, sir; brown on botf
sides?
IF all the men were like that it would
be all right. But there's some, like tina
young Teller over there, that amt go
no sense. They think they're so smart
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