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Show Restaurant Piccolo. Writing from Dresden, an American says: "There is at least one thing ln a German restaurant for which one would look In vain ln our country. That Is the piccolo. You may think that I mean a musical instrument and that any orchestra ln any country might have one of these, but you are wrong. My piccolo, the one at the restaurant, is a human being. He is a boy twelve to fifteen years old, who assists the regular waiters. He wears the regulation waiters' costume and looks too funny in his spiketail coat He is as solemn as a funeral, knows how to extract a tip, and for the high privilege of retaining his place and taking his first degree as a waitei must endure much abuse at the hands of the head waiter and his underlings He is a funny little fellow, this piccolo, pic-colo, who, because of his appearance, could never prosper in our country." |