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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1925.

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REPLACING

FOREIGNERS.

PROBLEM FOR ENGLISH HOTELS.

THE CHINA MAIL.

VERSATILITY.

Some of the clubs will have no alien, und who can want a butter servitor than the polite, attentive, club waiter, who knows every mem ber's name and anticipates his, wants? And then there is the old-

SEANCE LIBEL SUIT.

MEDIUAT SORS GERMAN

PROFESSOR.

Several of the great London fad nglish butler, still to be large body of educated cultists in A decision of vital interest to the hotels and restaurants in beef, respectful, and quietly efficient one of the Berlin emurls.

found in private familjes, so digui termony was given on July 11, by hard hit by the Hom, Secretary the guide, confidant, and adviser of rigorous action against Continental tir entire household. aliens, writes Arnold Guest in the

new "Orders,

As for the At a requer, assisted at by a num

ber of doctors and other men of Weekly Dispatch. Quite a nom-glish waitress-but as is - ber of them id their stuf's sensibly story for the alien female has acting, the medium. Fun Rudloff, depleted by the

not yet invaded her lomain.

Wife of an offted in the Postal Waiters had to go back to Englishmin may be superior to his tour of her craft, was linked up In ohmmeter and demeanour the Ministry and distinguished the country of origin; and not matter from brod, but he die with the rest of the company by the waiters alone. Highly placed and his deficiencies. There is that matrin contact of lads on a polished important officials, managers, superor of language, already mention table: but when the lights were iftendents, maitres d'hotel, and Hotel keeping is a cosmopolined up again, her arms, previous- others have also been dispensed far hasiness; guests come from withoornment, were encircled with; and the directorates are left: lamenting or trying to fill de posts

to missiya iron rings, which with native-born subsititutes.

the "declared must have been. "deposited in atoms through "spofitaction. All the evants and "sanitary councillors" (presnt at the conjuration seem to have been uite satisfied with the authenticity

It is not an easy task; for the fashionable hotel industry in Eng--| land a particularly in tlie metropolia, has been largely in the hands of foreigners. When you sit down at your table in a Westend stablishment you quite expect your order to be taken by a gentleman who talks flert English with un. accent.

ENGLISHMEN RARELY FOUND.

The Englishman in this capacity is so rare thus you are rather sur- prised when you encounter him. Nine times out of ten the person who minisers to your wants comes from somewhere beyoud the Channel.

It has been 30 in London and

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Consequently they were much in request, and were to be found in all sorts of places, including some where their preserice was not quite easy to explain. It was hinted. even before the autumn of 1914; that they had other interests bet aides those, which were professional: Our Secret Service discovered that

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this materialisation." and it was july rewrdul" and testified in a Pormal protocol.** Plas, document, however, met with an exceedingly confoniptions, reception from Pros fessor Aibet Moll, whose resourches. iqte pathologien) psychology have paled him in demands Forense expert. hi the last of a le Jong series of books on the aberra-. tion of the human mind bo derided the idea that Pruu Rudloff's ☀ rings were the fruit of atomic pro cipitation, and gallantly suggest- ef that she had entered the stance. with them convaled beneath her Telothes. His criticism included such harsh expressions na manipula- tions" and "clumsy, tricks, För tae first time in the history of Ger mau iurisprudence the medium thus alteked has retorted with libel proceedings.

The hearing, which lasted a whojë week, was of a very lively character," us the court was erowded daily by fervent believers in spiritualistic manifestations, who met hostile re- #rtions on their faith with out- lursts of indignationi. An offer by the medium to demonstrate hor. ceruit power before the Bench unme to nothing beengse the defendant place in hrad daylight and that he insisted that 4, saunea shotilil take should be permitted to attend it.. were in communication with the toliques pass carent in the lounge Professor Pan Degner, of Berlin German War Stuff.

Lam restauIZATIA, Tha English University, deposed that at one of - waiter ton olten knows only ling Frau Rudloff's séances a large chop- fish and camust take an order given ping-block; which she certainly The Teutour is less in evidence in French, German, or Colian like Fuld not have hidden in her cloth now than he used to be. His place his versatile rival. The alien, top, ing, sullenly uppeured on the table. has been taken not by Britons for frequently knows more of other Protosser Moll, for his part, wanted the most part, but by Italians,ful and desirable things. If he is to call sleight-of-land experts, who, Begins, French, Swiss, Dutch, she kind of waiter who intends to mid would dercive the judges and diverse others. I live my come in dece que of the uch regularly brought to me at thousand--teur managers, he will one agreeable resort by a very civil have been rather daborately train-unimpeachable bulk sa young Czecho-Slovak; and I have. been served by a Portuguese, Ramauinn, a Norwegian, and a Jngo-Slav

MIXED RIVALRY.

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This as regards the munk-and-file, Managers, hend-waiters, and maitres d'hotel seem to be mostly French, French-Swiss, or Italians, with an onsioral Swede. The Englislaman is scarce.

TRAINING"SCHOLARSHIPS

A most agreeable and accomplish et gentleman is Agate, with the What are the reasons for the ex-enders of a rather unusually clusion of our own countrymen from shed diplomat, who can co- a large, important, and on the verse with ease and elegance in whole fairly lucrative avocation several language is at home Why should we not have British with ambasadora countessen, waiters and British managers? Is American millionaires, and young not the Englishman capable of dis- follows about town charging properly the duties of these functionaries?

by producing, apparently from the r. in rings and other objects of

solidity.

Efe disclaimed any particular animis against the medium, and justified

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There is my friend Monsieur is attack with the argument that shall I call lem Auguste?-who is, the growing strength of occultism unless he Jar een porteil, in Germany had become a serions mitre d'hotel in apertain London | national danger. That he sought to restaurant which all the world engrave that Count von Moltke's ters as one time or another.

Tilenomena had been responsible for preoccupation with piritualistic) Commany's loss of the Battle of the Name. He also declared that the X-Kusser Turing his reign felt under the mafcent influere of oven- tists who prevented lum from fill- ibe the chief posts of the State with men competent to administer them, If we de suma cluas of young that the medium was absolutely

In its indement, the Bench, found at Englishman a the business, and if trustworthy that no deception or}" He can do them very well when he woulksubmit himself to the same frail, had bien proved neainst her, the chance is given him. There training we sind not need fan that he therefore left the court are chophonara and restaurants.Anguste. Seme, think are heat trin on her character mostly in the City, where none it gaining to come into it. The Profes Moll had failed to justify English are employed; and I do CC institited training has atatements, which consequently not think their clients would care classes for waiters, and there, are astituted a calumny. As, how-i to have Fritz or Adolphe or plus waiting for the pupils if they over, in criticism was inspired by Antonio in exchange for William will take ili troubly to qualify zeal for scientific truth, he whe and Richard, always so civil and obliging and kindly, so anxious to

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penalties for libel statements made. and Boury potato for which he

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and was nerordingly nequitted.

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