People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1894 — NICE DISCRIMINATION. [ARTICLE]

NICE DISCRIMINATION.

How George Moat Admirably Vindicates the Boarding House. “George” is a handsome bearded colored man, not black, but of a Spanish complexion, who is managing man—buyer, butler and general {cictotum—for a Boston lady who keeT>s an expen • sive boarding house “on the Hill.” The manners of George, who was bred in the south, are perfect—at one® self-re-spectful, easy and flattering to each boarder’s feeling of personal cons**’ quence. He is one of the rare men who are always deferential and never servile. Though but a head-waiter, he might well be called a gentleman. That be has a very nice discrimination iD language this true anecdote will shove. The point on which George is touchy is the reputation of the boarding hous% in which he is so trusted, so liked and so much the managing man. He is assiduous in maintaining the table on a liberal scale, and seeing that no boarder lacks anything or waits unduly for any attention by reason of the neglect of the minor servants, who are all women. If they are all busy, George “fills the gaps.” Thus it chanced one day, not long ago, that he leaned deferentially over the shoulder of a new boarder and said: “Apple-pie and ice-cream, sah.” The new boarder is somewhat deaf, and long accustomed to less liberal boarding houses. Not sure that he had heard George aright, he looked around and said: “What? Apple-pie or ice-cream?” “No, sah, not here, sah! Apple-pie and ice-cream, sah,” said George, with admirable suavity and perfect vindication of his boarding house from possible suspicion of being one of those places where they offer the guests nothing more than a choice between dishes of dessert.—Youth’s Companion.