The Washington herald., 1919-11-02
BY
MONTAGUE GLASS

society for the Prevention on
Cruelty to CrEtomers and have
agents stationed in high-class hotels
and restaurants. fashionable gents
furnishing stores, theayter ticket
ofices and Fifth Avenue cloak and
millinery departmenrsr' Abe Potash
remarked to his partner, Morris
Perlmutter. TT worked so well with
horses, dogs and little children that
maybe something could be done for
the protection of business men who.
once in a while want to eat or sleep
in a good hotel. buy neckties or go
with his wife when she Is getting
new dress or hat"
Must you 60 with your wife to
help her pick out a hat??' Morris in
quired.
who says I go to help herr Abe
retorted. II go with her simply be-
cause my being on the spot Is going
to remind her a whole lot better
than tying a knot in her handker-
chief that she amt married to
Charles NJ. SClwab exactly: but that
amt here nor there, Mawruss. What
I am driving into is: why should
man get the same treatment from
the head waiter In a hotel roof
garden as he would from the magis-
trate in a trafflc court which last
week when me ana my Rosie ap-
peared before the head waiter in
the entrance of one OF them roof
restaurants an. pleaded guilty of
attempting to yet in the nrst degree.
the way that Kosher sentenced us
TO D little tsble right underneath
the bass fiddle player of the orches-
ira made IL impossible for US to do
anything else but submit to his
Judgment on account of being afraid
we would be otherwise committed
for contempt of court or something"
= well, what else could you eX-
pect?" Morris asked, You ought to
know by this time, Abe. that high
grade hotels and restaurants must
got to give their customers rough
treatment otherwise how would the
customers know that It was high
grade restaurant or hotel? You see.
Abe. the theory Is that the proprrs-
tor Of a high-grade restaurant or
hotel has reached the point where
IT'S mir nix dir nix with him whether
be has any customers or not. Such
. place is supposed TO be absolutely
peerless and IL the head walters was
to be polite to the customers II
would be practically eonceding that
there were other restaurants where
the cooking was just as good and
that 1t was therefore necessary to
be courteous in order to hold trade.
So therefore. Abe. the next time you
go to one OF them high-grade res
taurants and you feel sore at a
waiter because he acts fresh, yum
derstand. remember that the poor
feIler has probably got a wife and
children depending on him and that
the chances IS he Res been fired
from several good jobs as a waiter
In frst-class restaurants for being
In a moment of forgetfulness polite
to the customers"
But instead of being compelled
by the management OBJ bully the Gus
TONERS, most of them head walters
acts like they enjoyed 1t. Mawruss.
Abe said. In fact, Mawruss, it al
ways seemed to me that II the head
walters in them high-grade hotels
sround Forty-second street had their
way. all the tables in the restau-
rant would either BE- next to the
swinging doors leading into the
Kitchen or directly underneath the
bass fiddle player in the orchestra
because-even when 1 get to one of
them restaurants so early that prac-
ticalIy every able is vacant, 1t
ion't make no difference. Seemingly
I look like a man that has either
A mania for watching walters burst
in and out of swinging doors or
could die listening to a bass fddle.
understand"
More likely you look like a man
hat never tipped a head waiter In
mis- life. Abe" Morris said.
And in that particular case. Maw-
russ. looks don't deceive" ABB
agreed heartily. II not only never
tipped a head waiter in my life but
so far. never had an experience
with a head waiter that made me
regret such economy"
ALSO. Abe" Morris added. you
probably amt got the right method
In dealing with head walters. You
should ought to learn how to i'm
press such people"
Maybe I ought-but how Abe
.aid. which to my mind. Nav
russ, the knack OF impressing head
walters or anybody else IL like
high tenor voice or red hair. II
you've got it, you've got it. but il
YOU amt got il. then It couldn't be
learned Furthermore. Mawruss.
what people who hgve the price of
rood food should ought to do is to
not to learn how to make head
walters polite in places where they
ain't. but to learn to go to places
where the head walters is polite
ready-made."
why don't you bring the whole
problem before this here Industrial
Conference which Is being pulled
of at Washington, Abe?" Morris
suggested. There has been lots of
conferences between labor and cap
Ital before in all lines of industry
where question has been settled to
the satisfaction for the time being
Of one side or the other. but this Is
the first time that the Public has
been represented in such a con-