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Woodville Examiner, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4627, 7 May 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)

A SLIGHT MISTAKE. An English officer in Canada got a few day?’ leave and went to see as much as ho could of the United States in a short time. The first hotel he stopped at was the scene of a blunder and its correction, 3he officer being seated at the public table was astonished to find the chamberm.vd also there, and spoke of her as a “seiwant.” “Our assistants are called ‘helps’, sir. They are not serfs,” said the landlord. “I shall remember in future,” the officer replied. Next morning all the inmates of the hotel were alarmed by hearing the officer shout; “Help, help! Water, water!” Up rushed everybody with a jug or pail to put out a fire, as- 1 they expected; but, on reaching the officer’s room, they were addressed by that worthy: — “Thanks: but I didn’t want so much ; I only required a little for washing and shaving, and as it is wrong to call the attendants ‘servants,’ I shouted for ‘help’. ” The officer thought it advisable to leave directly after breakfast. There is nothing dearer to a man than a'good wife, and very little that is more expensive.