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Show The Head 'Walter's Cocktail. In a ewell hotel on Broadway the head waiter is not allowed to indulge in bibulous refreshments during the hours be is on " duty. The other evening he w8 filled -with n irrepressible longing long-ing for & co&ttJJ, He managed to gej it "with such ease that it was evidently a well tried and efficacious trick. His method can be best understood by quoting the waiter : "Sure, we're not charging yes for a ; cocktail," whispered a waiter to a J young gentleman to whom he had just brought a check, "but the head waiter wanted a cocktail and thought yes would be the wan who would moind last having it put it on to yes bill, j You see," whiepered the waiter, confidentially, confi-dentially, "he couldn't put it onto the bill of the gists in the house, they might remark it, so he had to put it onto the bill of somebody who came in from the Etrate. I'll bring yes the twinty cents back and thank yea fur the accommodation." accommo-dation." "The head waiter has either discerned that you are a man with a liberal and sympathetic disposition or one who knows how good a cocktail tastes and hour bad a man wants it when he cannot can-not get it, " remarked the young lady who was dining with the gentleman whom the head waiter rightly singled cut as a possible friend to a fellow man in need of spirituous consolation. New York Herald. |