Surprising stories are som: told about the earnings of waiters and other attendants at busy Parisian restaurants" and cafes. Everyone has hoard of the who, in about ten years, enough money from "his buy out his employer but, Jast moment, decided to Job, because it was much so:
ied no responsibilities. It is quite a common thing for a waiter to make Frs, 80 a day in 'On the other hand, there are deductions, for breakages' and other expense: and, though the work does not require much skill, it is fatiguing and extends over long hours. Most of the hall-porters at big hotels Wave incomes which an ambassador might envy, but we must remember that they are experts in their particular line, full of information and tact and possibly more useful to humanity than the typical am-Dassador "'above-mentioned. The head messenger at one of the leading hotels in the centre of tHe city is the owner of five luxurious motor-ears, worth about Frs, 50,000 each, which he lets out on hire, chiefly to American and British visitors staying at the hotel with which he is connected. He. began, his career as a small boy in buttons at the same hotel in 1913, Evidently the knack of always being on the spot when one is wanted has a gistinet commercial value, producing much greater and, quicker returns titan the struggles of most members of the learned professions.
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