The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04
GOSSIP IN LONDON

From the London Times.
 The inauguration of the sale of bread on presentation of bread tickets has met with no difficulty whatever, and no in- convenience is experienced. Contrary to other reports, cake and pastry in coffee houses and restaurants may be had in any quantity and without the bread tick cts.
 The Rev. F. H. Dillingham;, the famous Essex county cricketer, who is now a chaplain at the front. writing to his old parish of Holy Trinity, Bordesley Bir- mil gham, says: Shells are constantly falling over the house where am billeted, but never wake. come away from the | trenches with added enthusiasm for the heroism of the British officer and sol- dier"
 | The British hotel and the Restaurant Employees society, 4 Hart street, w. C., London, has received some hundreds of letters asking for their list of names of hotels where only British walters and at | tendants are employed.
 Several of the big restaurants have taken boys, fresh from school, to train as walters Frascati's, for instance, has 35 boys under training. They are paid from | 3 shlllings to seven shilling pence per week and meals are supplied to them. The Incorporated Association of Hotels and Ressau, u,ants has decided to support the County Councils School for Walters by arranging for the attednace of stu dents, who will be paid shillings a week while at school. Boys who graduate l Will be guaranteed employment, and it is stated that the earnings of fully qualified waiter in London are from s2 1 to 25 week, with food
 | One day last week, writes the Paris cor respondent Of the Daily Express, the re- l tired proprietor of boxing booth was ] standing at the door of his butchers shop in which he had invested his saw ings, when a British soldier came along and asked him for match. The French man did not understand. Match, match, D said Tommy, "a box of matches" The word box" struck chord of memory. The butcher rushed into the hous~ and brought out two pairs or boxing gloves. Tommy squared up to the F'renchman and good set-to was only spoiled by the advent of a British officer, by whom matters were explained.
 A speech by Mir. Zangwill called forth an angry protest at a suffraglst meeting neid recently at Kingsway hall, London
 to demand that women should have a share in the settlement of peace.
 MT. ZangwilI moved q resolution de manding that the government take ad- vantage Of the present party truce t. carry into law nonsparty measure for womens enfranchlsement. PicturIng the
 horrors of war. he said that "the era
 which had prated of the superman had produced the super-rabbit," and he after wards referred to membes of Parliament
 who had gone to the front as being Fir
 the rabbit warrens." At the end of his
 speech a man ill the gallery cried out
 that the audience had not gathered tt
 hear the "ribnld jokes of an alien Jew
 CHisses and cries of "shame!') Some
 stewards sought to remove him and amit
 the confusion he shouted; ''Hc compared
 our sons and our brothers to rnbbits.'
 Eventually the man was allowed to re :, will said: IT am a Jew. Of course, and was born in London within the sound 0 ! Bow Bells. l am pure cocknsy." Th
 resolution was carried.