Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-02-11 | Page 15 | Teach Cockneys to Serve as Waiters

TEACH US TO SERVEJSWAITERS Propose to Open School for' Instruction of Dining-Room Dining-Room Help. LONDON, Feb. 10. "Britons will never bo slaves," runs a line in tho British national anthem, aud in tho sentiment which this lino teaches may bo found the reason why tho English havo always al-ways been absolutely useless as waiters. Very fow-English adopt tho trade, and those who do always manage to convey to their victims their feeling that they (tho waiters) are tho masters, and their customers' only duty Is to give tips appreciative of tho honor of being: waited on by a gentleman. (No ono who has ever crossed the Atlantic At-lantic on board an English boat will feel Inclined to deny this. In London nearly all waiters aro foreigners, but the London county council has decided that In tho future it is to bo different, for a municipal school for tho training of English youlha to become waiters Is now lo be founded, and the foreign waiter wait-er is to be, driven out of employment. At the school the young men are to receive thrco hours' weekly instruction in English, a language very different from their native cockney; three hours a wcok are to be devoted to arithmetic, seventeen hours a week to waiting and pantry work, and seven hours to the study of French. One shuddors lo think of Iho dreadful dread-ful effect It will havo on a Frenchmun, visiting London, when ho hears his na-tlvo na-tlvo tongue distorted by an English waiter. Considering the fiery temperament tempera-ment !' "iioa amis oU allies" from tho o.her side the channel, tho rates of accident ac-cident Insurance on English waiters working in restaurants patronized by French visitors aro sure to bo very hlsh.