Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1901 — Why He Was Wanted. [ARTICLE]

Why He Was Wanted.

A Philadelphian tells the story of a waiter at a restaurant in the Quaker City, who has lately announced that he has begun to study French. “Do you find It necessary here?” asked the customer. “Not here, sir,” said the waiter, "but I’ve been offered a steady Job in Paris at one of the hotels If I can learn French.” “But Paris Is full of French waiters,” said the gentleman. “I’m afraid you’re being deceived.” “Oh, no, sir!” said the man, with much earnestness and absolute simplicity. “It’s a perfectly straight thing. The proprietor of the hotel says the waiters he has can’t understand French as we Philadelphians speak It, and that’s what he wants me for, you see.”

Rage it essentially vulgar, and never more vulgar than when it proceeds from mortified pride, disappointed ambition ■mi thwarted willfulnesa. —Coleridge.