The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-09-03

| ] watchful eye.
 The dinner menu is. of course, most | varied, but previously cooked and served from the steam tables, and the
 orders are quickly obtained: breakfast orders are cooked as you call for them, only you keep, as you fill coffee cups and cream pitchers, an observant eye on your particular order of meat or 1 eggs lest some one else take it. Lunch con or supper are the least Iaborious meals of the day. These are the hours tnd routine Of day:
 One rising bell was rung at six o'clock,
 haIf-past six on Sunday. Breakfast was served to us at seven. Water bot ties were to be filled, butter iced. and all in readiness for serving of breakfast
 form half-past seven to nine, and ten fon Sunday. At this and all other meals our tables were to be set, and we stand ing behind them at least five minutes
 before the opening of the dining room. When one has several guests to serve at
 once, almost no individual attention
 can be given, excepting placing of or tders.
 As soon as the last guest has left the
 room comes the busiest scene of the
 day, the gashing of glass and silver,
 and resetting of tables with clean linen,
 all accompanied by the laughing and
 chatting of fifty young people.
 While eating during meal hours was finable, yet the rule was that anything could be eaten that was left on the ! trays" and in some cases it proved a very elastic rule.
 Then the dining room was swept and l dusted, napkins folded, silver polished and our head waiter made a tri-daily
 inspection of tables and sideboard, and
 no deviation in arrangement was made. We were expected to provide wild flow
 CTS for the tables, for they grew in l great profusion in this rocky peninsula. One young medical student was noted for the exactness and taste with which
 he did his work. Half past ten found l the dining room deserted, and we were 1 free till twelve, the hour for our dinner Dinner was served from half-past l twelve to two. No one had the slight est inclination to loiter over the clear 1 ing up, and three o'clock found the last
 work finished. Our supper was served at half-past five, though oftener we re- which lasted from six to half-past sev- en. At ten all lights were to be out. l The work while on duty was hard and
 exacting, but you must be good-natured,
 nimble- footed and be able to ignore the days petty annoyances. Off duty we had very pleasant times, and toward
 the end of the season the casino was al-
 lowed us for dance and entertainment. We" were ten college men, including the bellboys and the head waiter and
 his assistant, four teachers, young wo- men students from Radcliffe and from Boston university, two normal school girls, three seamstresses, a party from 1 New Hampshire, and the rest profess sional waitresses from Boston and from | college boarding houses. e,. l The cilambermaids and waitresses oc- cupied two-story wooden building at 1 the rear of the hotel. It was partitioned l by wooden walls into small and fairly comfortable rooms. It went by the name Of the "coop," and its rear pre- scented most grotesque appearance, as we strung lines on which to dry our 1 towels and bathing suits there Washing and ironing of white clothes took many spare hours, but we took many long and pleasant rambles along 1 the rocky shore. A moment brought us
 to the beach, and one could see a never ending procession of fishing schooners
 and yachts going in and out of the har- Dor. Two water color artists invited me into their studio olle afternoon, and | later that winter recognized one of Etheir pictures at the Art club. " = +g i But I never O mitted my afternoon rest, which was oftener a good nap, and 1 that always kept me free from more 1 than mere daily fatigue. Tips deserve paragraph by them- selves. have already spoken of our wages, which alone would not have ] been a fair compensation for our work, entailing at all times correct and neat attire.
 Transient guests do not tip as do the corresponding class in city restaurants.
 It Is more profitable from the waitresses' standpoint to wait upon individual guests than upon a family Many fam l flies gave from twenty-five cents to a
 dollar week during the season; others
 a larger and varying sum on their de- parture Five dollars was no exception at that time. One waitress made fifty dollars, and the head waiter far more, and felt satisfied to average over two | dollars @ week extra.
 July changed to August, and it's shortening days and earlier sunsets bade me often think of my September duties, and seemed even a surer sign. It had proved, too, profitable vaca- tion. had spent practically nothing and had over sixty dollars to add to my saved hoard.
 And so returned, not tired out" but mentally refreshed, and pleased with
 my view of what our English cousins l call life below stairs" which, by the way, is not disagreeable when ,~ou are a participant in it and not the looker-on. Boston Herald.
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