The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-08
Rah Rah Boys
Make Love While
Singing Dishes

Singing Dishes
College Chaps as Walters Have
High Old Times While the
Girls Last-FalI Into 70
Wealth But Gain Loads of
Experience
Along toward the end of August the
number of college students who are
earning their bread and butter by imi-
tating walters at summer resorts
gradually begins to grow less, for even
student walters require vacations
when only a month remains before
they have to be back on the campus
hard at work bluff1ng their professors
and swapping stories about the sum-
mers experiences. The majority OF
them spend the last few weeks at
home, partly for the reason that they
will not have to spend what money
they were able to save from their tips
and wages Of SIS month and board"
The financial returns are not particu-
larly large unless the tips happen to
exceed 10 per cent. basis, but the
work is exceedingly rich in experien-
ces. The pamphlet issued by the col
lege Young Mems Christian Assocfa-
tons and student employment bu-
reaus never relate any Of this form OF
popular summer fiction, which should
not be classed as fiction since the
narrators give it as the gospel truth
with only few frills to show Them
selves Off to better advantage.
AS for real experiences, three coll
lege men got together Thursday night
of this week in an Italian table d'hote
restaurant near Washington Square.
They were all from the same town in
New Jersey and had come to Manhat-
tan SO that they could feel free in
holding their "spielfest' in a foreign
country Should you wish to know
where to find their names. look in the
following university catalogues under
the year Of their class as given:
Princeton, 1912; Cornell, 1912 and Yale,
1913.
Since the Cornell man was the slow
spaghetti, it was decided that he had
to lead off over the coffee and cigar
cites. Just as soon as examinations
had ended last June he made his way
to the Great Lakes with suit case
of socks and neckties. The end Of
two weeks found him a waiter aboard
a steamship running between Sarnia
and Duluth among the bunch of am
ateurs on board to sling dishes were
four men from the universities of
Michigan and Chicago and a couple
of Canucks from McGill University.
The Michiganders and the Chicago
chaps couldn't get together on the
than two porcupines and two rabbits
could enjoy life in the same hole
in the ground, but they did agree on
the matter of reciprocity. We from
this side of the Great Lakes took. spe-s
cial pleasure in talking about the an
the Canadians passed within hearing
distance. AS result the reciprocity
cause has lost some votes at the Sep
TENDER election, and We Yankees, as
the Canucks took pleasure in calling
us, were lined up solid against the
Dominion bunch, the professional wai-
tiers joining sides also. Party lines
were forgotten; it was each man Tor
his own country.
''Now, a.aCanuck has no more sense
of humor than an EngliShman, and
before long we found that the Cana
dams were appropriating one table II,
the messroom for their own use. Two
ciprocity and annexation at short
range but we migrated when we found
a. chalk line between the two tables,
one of which was marked Dominion
of Canada and the other u. S. NEAR
ing you the Yanks.' War was wag-
ed internationally with rolls and cakes.
The only time that it ever reached
blows was when little United States
flag that decorated our table was torn
up by one of the McGill fellows fol-
lowing a eulogy of Laurier and his re-
ciprocity policy by the two Chicago
men spouting in question and answer
form. It was a little Irishman who
started in to do up the McG1ll ca,
muck for the insult, and free-for all
fight was only prevented by the az
rival of the first officer.
ION the last trip I made, from Du-
luth to Sarnia, a climax was reach
ed One of the professionally on our
side. who we thought didn't have any
more patriotism than a cat bought
big American flag in Duluth. We made
use of the flag as he suggested. At
ter lunch the second day out from Du- |
luth we waited till the Canucks were |
all at their table. Then we marched
into the messroom in single file with
the big flag extended on one side. The
greetings we received from the Ca |
madam table consisted of boots and
pieces of bread. Not word did we
say until all the missiles ceased, then
in chorus came our battle cry, Down |
with the insuiterS of the Stars and |
Spill their b1ood!' At the word |
blood eight right hands holding un-
corked catsup bottles were raised in
the air. With wide sweeps of our |
arms the blood flowed from the bot |
ties and when the chief steward ar
rived on the scene the catsup on the
white coats of the Canucks made them
appear as if they were bleeding their
last The stewards rage saved US
from something worse at the hands or
the Canucks. And say, we were short
ON catsup that trip and the demand
for it was enormous when the story
got around among the passengers.
''But speaking of passengers. let me
say that 1 have a list Of seventy-two
all fair ones-in my pocket One OF
the Michigan students had a bet of
five plunks up with me that he could
get more picture postcards from the
girls whom we scraped up an acquain-
lance with on board the boat. He
won with seventy-seven names and los
cards, but ] had the consolation of
pleasant evenings spent up on deck
talking about all sorts of foolish
things from waiting on tables for
college education to marrying for love
rather than money.
Nothing seemed to please them more
than talking about love and my ex-
periences as a waiter. They were de-
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