WAITRESSES IN BERLIN.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXXI, 10 June 1916, Page 5

WAITRESSES IN BERLIN.

The Berliner Tageblatt discourses lialf-mournfully, half-jocularly, at the changes which the war is effecting in the capital, and especially in the cafes and eating-houses. The first significant change was the bread card instead of bread ad lib. Then the table d'hote was suppressed, then.the limitation of hours, the "verbot" about schnapps after 9 p.m., the fleshless days, the fatless days, the shrinkage of beer, the shrinkage of potatoes, the diminution of the sugar supply, and, finally, the disappearance of the waiter.

Instead of "Idops" and "braten" the waiter is now handing bombs in the trenches; instead of offering profound remarks on various comestibles he is discus-sing machine guns at the front. And in his place is the waitress. Waitresses have been long known in Berlin, but they were mainly confined to establishments which sorted a red or a blue light over their door, establishments which were not visited by ladies. In more reputable places the waitress did not make her appearance, for the simple reason that the average Berliner never knew how to conduct himself towards a respectable girl.