Milford News | 1928-05-25 | Page 8 | Girl Didn't Quite Get Witty Waiter's Point

Girl Didn't Quite Get Witty Waiter's Point William Lehman, secretary of the Waiters' and Waitresses' union, recently re-cently declared before the state Industrial Indus-trial commission of New York that his organization hated the tipping system but must put up with It till a living wage for waiters and waitresses was obtained.. - - Afterward, in an interview, Mr. Leh-man Leh-man told a story. "The way girls dress nowadays," he said, "you can hardly tell them from boys. This holds good in the mountains moun-tains especially, where broad-shouldered, hollow-chested girls climb about In knickerbockers and smoke and drink, and even swear. "Well, in a mountain hotel during the summer a girl went to the" manager man-ager and said : " 'I want to make a complaint about one of your waiters. He has been blank impudent.' " 'I'm very sorry,' said the manager. 'What did he do?' " 'When 1 tipped him for getting me a box of cigarettes,' said the girl, 'he had the blankety-blank impudence to say: "'Thank you, lady; you're a gentleman.' gen-tleman.' "