Show 0 I 1 davi VI m an autocrat of the breakfast lunch and dinner table 0 OUT UT of vancouver 7 p in reaching Kama Karna loops junction by dawn and onward into the canadian one of the grandest I 1 mountain ranges on oil the north american continent it behooves the traveler to break breakfast fast early lest lie he miss the splendor of the newborn new born day midst snow capped pinnacles on this trip my traveling companion whom I 1 met for the first time at a table spread with a light repast of orange juice british columbia cantaloupe coffee and toast proved to be a psychologist of the first class and also an industrialist familiar with all phases of employment his company carried a pay roll of 1800 men twenty six of whom were experts and craftsmen it is with engaging these specialists cia lists that most of my time is occupied said he and it may amuse you to learn that it is my practice when investigating the fitness of a candidate to invite him for breakfast luncheon or dinner as the case may be before actual business negotiations are entered into As it is easier to listen than to ask questions I 1 allowed the iks job adjuster to have the floor confident that he wanted it and had something entertaining to offer breakfast as a job test now for example I 1 he continued declining cream for his cof fes fee if the applicant is a young man I 1 invite him to breakfast at my club or a first class hotel eight sharp if lie he hesitates or suggests a later hour I 1 instantly approve and defer to his every whim when he arrives but nine times out of ten regardless of whatever indorsements endorsements indor he may have from others the barometer so far as he is concerned has begun perceptibly to fall any young man looking for a job who ready for food at eight belongs to the tha class that retires too late the night before however I 1 do not take as an indication di of unfitness any mans disinclination to break his fast if he consumes a good breakfast as young men should it is a mitigating circumstance in his favor but if lie he has no appetite no capacity tor for starting the day with proper nourishment ish ment he pegged with me for a job on his first performance if the applicant is an elderly man I 1 let him set the time refraining on my own part from any adverse conclusions when a man passes forty he has acquired habits and inclinations that are no other mans business thinking with their teeth luncheon well an entirely different proposition in this age when metabolism diemand diet die tand and the quest of proper calories are having a widespread fling only I 1 am of the opinion that consumers of heavy food at the noon hour ba have bae e a tendency to dullness for a longer period in the afternoon than is consistent with a high percentage of mental mantal activity I 1 want a man who does not lack capacity to think for himself otherwise how can I 1 expect him to think for me no intelligent person eats himself out of a job it has probably occurred to you that I 1 am dictatorial on the contrary I 1 have never at any preliminary conference with a possible employee discussed the subject of food or restrained the gentleman in prancing through the entire bill of fare from aperitifs to coffee codee I 1 do however exercise rny my observational powers when negotiating with one whom I 1 have every hope will measure up to the position that it is my earnest desire to bestow I 1 am not looking for misfits or men who think with their teeth I 1 am in search of brains dinner Is supreme trial now in the matter of dinner or supper whichever you prefer to call the third phase I 1 have become somewhat elastic clastic in my analysis of character as it develops at the dinner table here one must take stock of ceremony we should come to it with high hope that a limited indulgence is essential to enjoyment I 1 dont care to dine with a man who evades the opportunity for enjoyment that is or should be a prime factor at the dinner table whether i it t be set for two or twenty always it should be an intellectual integ physical and spiritual ceremony free from discords something designed to elate and not to exhaust here geniality expanding in proper ratio with the understanding of those present should reach it its maximum there is no better place to appraise a strangers capabilities than at the dinner table no richer atmosphere in which to let him in inhale the breath of life indeed the final test of the three culinary experiments peri ments that it pleases me to make is at dinner to which on occasions I 1 have asked outsiders the better to observe the effect that strangers have upon the man with whom I 1 expect to have daily association cia tion 0 |