The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-13

1 ship under such magical sixill. Snnit- ty has a knack of getting children who detest milk to drink it with rel- ish. Others eat all the vegetables that at first were not wanted by the juvenile members of the visiting delegations but ordered by the pa- ternal faction.
 All walters u a lot of pencils. They seem to be in need Of them frequently due to the fact that many guests will sign a check with the pencil preferred by the waiter and then put the pencil in their pocket instead fo returning 1t. A good waiter, especially in places like this where guests are inclined to tip literally, will not ask for the re- turn of his pencil under those cir- cumstances. Tn Smitty's case, rec peat customers reverse the tables and bring ip extra pencils to work little gags on him. On more than one occasion he has been the butt of jokes where jumbo pencils about an inch thick and foot long were used to sign the check and then turned over to him in place Of the one he offered.
 Some guests smuggle in three foot long red, white and blue pen- cils to be used in the same way. He accepts all these gags in fun. Ills good nature makes him popular with the other walters who get pen- cil replenishments from him as the result of the generosity of restau- rant patrons.
 In bantering conversational way, Smitty finds out if a birthday an anniversary or other celebration is underway at the tables he serves and by intuition confidentially gets to one of the party for additional information which suddenly b!os- soms out by a public announcement naming the person being honored and the event-the speaker being MT. Lopez in person who leads his orchestra with appropriate music.
 Somehow Smitty finds opportuni- ty to get autographs to gratify some wish expressed at his table?
 He seem to have remarkable reservoir of vitality that makes 1t possible for him to take time to picturesquely describe delicacies on the menu. Occasionally someone vii lgive him repartee on foods Tn equally breezy fashion. One such guest was John Williams who is en- ployed by Conestoga Transportation Company in Lancaster, Pennsylvan- ia. He was describing schn!tz, souses, cup cheese, shoo fly pie, schmiercase and numerous other food treats with an ease that made them sound like easy-to-get victuals.
 Apparently they are in Lancaster, where I am told, bearded men in low-crowned black hats andblack coats fastened with hooks and eyes women inbonnets and long, plain but brightly colored dresses covered by shawls, and children in clothes of exact replica, mingle with others in the height of fashion on the streets and in the stores.
 There was quite a large and well- behaved party of high school stu dents with MT. Williams. The breezy services of "Smitty" were being thoroughly enjoyed. Some ci the young folks expressed a great admiration for the bigneSs adn lav- ish scale of New York. It is quite contrast to their countryside where horses and buggies are in greater number than automobiles, kerosen' used as generously as electricity fo' lighting and where almost every thing retains the style if not thu primitiveness of three centuries ago
 Frequent guests at the Taft car broke a laugh anytime at the wait. er's expense. Sniitty met a strange woman, gave her ride and sht walked away with his pants. He haS been trying to get them back ever since. It happened in Long Island where his wife and family are grad ually improving chicken farm that