The Washington herald., 1916-08-15
SEEN AND HEARD
BY GEORGE MINER

lHcn III new orleans is Max Mayer he runs
the cigar stand in Ramos famous laboratory,
where the most artistic drinks arc carefully
compounded. AS everybody who lives in New
Orleans and everybody who visits it goes to
Ramos 10 get of those drinks that lock
like whipped cream ard are not, it naturally
follows that everybody meets Max Mayer.
Max Mayors particular joy in life is collect
ing good stories. Whenever I go to New Or
leans I promptly go to Max and ask for his
newest. He never fails to deliver the goods.
When l was there the other day he told me
about young who wanted raise in
salary
This young fellow, so Maxs story runs, was
employed by Hebrew concern, and after a
lapse of few years thought it was time for
raise in his pay
He approached the boss and stated his case.
Well said the boss, you say you have
worked faithfully and have given lots of time to
the firm Let's see whether you have.
There are 365 days in the year. Now you
sleep eight hours day, which means in a
years time I22 days. That's 243 days left Then
you rest eight hours a day, which means Ia7
more days year off the 243 days-I21 days
left. You get Sundays to yourself and that's
hfty-two more days off, or Sixty y-nne days left
You get two weeks vacation, which means four
teen days off, or hfty-hve days left. We're closed
Saturday Afternoons in years time that's
twenty-six days off-twenty days left You
get an hour for lunch every day, which means
| sixteen days in year or thirteen days left
There are twelve legal holidays in a year, which
leaves one day. This is Hebrew concern.
Every year give you off on Yom Kippur One
from one day leaves nothing. You don't work
at all"
mr. ell, ~ Il
because there certain business firms l know
of that might take advantage of it and refuse to
pay their help anything.
While | am the subject OF Ramos and his
famous bar, l might as we'll shock some people
and quote new sign he has just had placed in
that resort of the thirsty 1t is in very large
black letters and hangs conspicuously. 1t reads:
Please refrain from swearing around
this place Not that we care damn but
it sounds like hell before strangers"
They have discovered a way of cooking
spaghetti down in New Orleans | tried it and
it is delicious Also it is very easy to prepare
The spaghetti is simply cooked-boiled to be ac-
curate-in olive oil in which there is chopped-up
garlic. know it sounds as bad as English cook
ing tastes, but just try it once and am sure
you will be happily surprised
Out at Spanish Fort near the Crescent Citv
'hNS h'S having d gay ana glQQy summer. The
place is thronged every night and it is certainly
beautiful way to get cool to take that shell
road along the canal and drive out there on a
hot night. Then when you do get there you
don't mind the mosquitoes hardly at all because
they put dishes filled with live Goals on which
some kind of stuff is burning which they call
incense and which smells like a rubber factory
on fire Favored with Chicago stockyard This
drives the mosquitoes away. You bet it does
Those Spanish Fort mosquitoes are not fools
or course you apt to put your foot in the
dish of hot Goals, but that only burns your shoe.
1t does not itch like mosquito bite
BY the way, l counted fourteen different
kinds OF games on which you could gamble in
booths all in row.
And in addition to that there are beautiful
starlight and whispering palms and the broiled
Pompano is the finest in the whole wide world
And listen, they don't rob you.