Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1891 — Pay Before You Eat. [ARTICLE]

Pay Before You Eat.

Youth’s Companion. The proprietor of a French case in Paris, on the Rue de Pontoise, was very much annoyed by poor customers who took advantage of the temporary absence of the waiters to step out without paving their bills. Finally, he put up all around the case, inside largo notices— •‘Pay Before You Eat.” The principal dish was a very thin but palateable soup, served in large, deep bowls. One day a man came in, and sitting down, before a large bowl of soup which had just been poured out, he*began to help himself; ~ " A waiter came up and laid: "Pay before you eat” "I gueßS not. I always eat first." 1 "Not here. Our rule is, as you see, pay first.” "I don't pay first.” said the man,and he continued to lio’p himself to the BOup, when, To his intense astonishment, the waiter utied out of his

pocket an immense wooden syringe, «nd, dipping the nozzle of it into the soup bowl, drew the soup all out of the bowl intoJhfi. i syringe. •'Will you pay now?” said the waiter, holding the syringesuspended over the edge of the empty bowl. The man concluded he would obey the rules, as the waiter had him at his The proprietor of that case must have had a little Yankee blood in his veins. He would make his fortune in America.