At the last meeting of the National Association of Outfitters, resolution was passed: by which hotel proprietors are to be asked to suggest a solution to the problem of how guests are to be distinguished from waiters. The chairman of the Association, apparently, recent found himself in the terrible predicament of having mistaken. a guest for a waiter and complained that, whenever there was a change in the fashions of mon's evening dress, the waiters were quick to copy it. Suggestions have been made that waiters should be made to wear some uniform or distinguishing mark, such as brass buttons oF hotels already such clothing. The majority of waiters, however, would strongly object to wearing any such fancy dress and would refuse to follow their profession under such conditions, The general, feeling is that the dangers arising from mistaking guests for waiters, or vice-versa, are sufficiently remote not to be bothered about.
The Meat Grading Schein The experiment of the Ministry of Agriculture in grading and marking beef of British origin in the London area does not seem to have met with great enthusiasm on the part of the butchers, who object to it as involving them in quite unnecessary red-tape. 'The idea wa to stimulate the public to ask for beef of British origin and s0 to help the British farmer, and the nark is put on so that' they can know when they are getting it, The wholesalers are doing their best, bub the butchers, apart from the' Cooperative Society, remain obdurate. They foresee further difficulty in pleasing their clients and claim that it should be enough for them to supply good meat and not care about from where it comes,
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