Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1899 — The Waitress Was a Ringer. [ARTICLE]

The Waitress Was a Ringer.

When Mrs. Smith decided to give a tea party she made up her mind that it should be the event of the season. With that in view she started elaborate preparations, promising Mary, her cook, an extra week’s wages if she would do her best to make the party a success. Finding that she would need a girl to help serve the tea, she asked Mary if she knew of any one that she could get “Sure, mum,” answered Mary. “There’s me sister, what’s used to waitin’ an’ who’ll be glad to get the chance, for she’s a poor gurl just out of a job.” As Mary herself was a jewel, Mrs. Smith did not question her further, and Mary received orders to have her sister on hand. Mary’s sister reported for duty and Mrs. Smith gave her minute instructions how she should act wishing to give the guests the impression that she was a regular member of the household. Things went on swimmingly until Mary’s sister, seeing that one of the guests was out of tea, came up and wanted to know if the lady would have “anlther.” The guest smilingly answered that she would, whereupon Mary’s sister, snatching up the cup, bawled across the room in the most approved cheap restaurant code, “Draw one!”—Detroit Free Press.