Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-07-07
HOTEL TABLES,
In the United States and in the United
 Kingdom.

n Fl the Onlted StateS and 1n the United
 Kingdom.
 The habit of serving seventy-fiye psld things to eat in seyenty-fye sep- dfate canary bird baths regard as a o..aack uiaWDack to our country hotels" said simeon Ford recently, renewing his ulscusslon of the respective peculiari- ues of tavern keeping in this country and Great Britain.
 A In that respest the interior hotels 1n England have the advantage over ours. They run more to simnlicitv They have two or three things they can l give you to eat, and they are good ] things. The American in his country hotel wants a bewildering abundance "a boundless sea of things to eat, reaching to far horizon across the ta- ble and breaking in tumultuous corn I Ied-beef-and cabbage ice cream and beans-mince-pie surf into his plate
 The reason I know this is so is part ly because a country hote1keeper up in New England told me so. It was on a bicycle tour | made down east one time in company with my son. We started out from Boston and took in the country hotels through a wide stretch Of country. We were getting we'll on toward physical collapse for want of nourishment, and I finally thought I l would say word in season to coun- try hotelkeeper that might induce aim I to lead higher life.
 : Why is it. I asked him-stell me as between man and man-why is it l you lavish money in spreading on your table these bounteous repasts of things that are rotten instead of laying out a al small sum in getting one thing, say, that is fit to eat?
 "slye got to do it. he replied.
 The American people demand 1t. Gut off his daily supply of garbage and try to narrow him down to things that a civilized human being ought to eat and the American citizen would revolt.
 He'd tear my house down about my ears. Pm not altogether a coward
 but I'm not taking fool risks either,
 and I know enough not to come be tween an American citizen and his ia
 vorite fodder,
 50 there you are continued MT
 Ford The American citizen at the
 country hotel wants mess of yictuals pays for mess of victuals and gets
 what he. pays for, and the country
 landlord who gives him the messies1 l.
 of insect bathtubs is the man for his
 money
 ..The hotelkeeper in England has one
 great advantage over the American landlord. Matters are simplified fol
 him, because all EnglishmeI
 eat the same thing. Explore the sever
 seas ransack the continents and scooI the atmosphere with drag net fol things to put before an Englishman fol
 breakfast and if he doesn't take nut ton chops he will take bacon and eggs You can't do business on that simple
 basis here at home. You've got to ca ter to the inhabitants of dozens of dis } tinct food zones. You've got to have scrapple for the Philadelphia man you've got to have ham, bacon an6
 spare ribs for the great hog-an,-h hom | inv belt; your breakfast table must bt
 spread with a dozen different kinds o1 . Die for the people of the Massachu .. setts pie region, doughnuts for th'
 Nutmeg state man-and what is break fast for a Chicago man without his bot i tie of beer and dish of strawberry 1ct cream?
 "But there are other advantages
 which the English country hotelkeepel has-and he is generally a woman b. | 9 walters and general hotel help. II England. in the country, this cost i, next to nothing Even in the countr.
 hotels the walters are now nearly al German Or Swiss. They get absolute : lv nothing from the hotel for their ser 7 vices. They depend on tips for al th ! money they get Their main objec Z is to learn the English language. Tn chambermaid. also, gets no pay T 5 speak ,of-maybe pound month She. too. looks to tips for her none. 7 supply. The chambermaids are an in S situation in the English hotels-a sor
 Of combination of chamb erma1d ant i; valet. It is luxury we can't have Il tfhis country. Among other duties the,
 answer bells and that cuts off quite al item of expense in the pay of bell boys !, stNo, I don't think the picturesqu country hotels in England are thin . that would flourish in this country 7 They are very picturesque thougA, i EngIand-so picturesque that we over } look their dirtiness. do not say tha 1 good country hotels in the country, sa, t l a hundred miles around New York ] would not pay. I think they woulo 7 People who would patroniZe them ar r educated up to Knowing the advantag
 of something simple and good in foo
 over something elaborate and bad Tsghere are good country hotels her even now I found one once. It mad
 so deep an impression on me that 7 have never forgotten 1t.
 "But in even in England, with thei :; light running expenses, country hotel ! do not make much money. Most 0 those who run them get bare Twin