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LAND & WATER 
August lo, igib 
TOWN AND COUNTRY 
(Continued from page 60) 
in the hands of Germans. Many of these despicable " bullies " 
appear to have been promoted to the highest commands by 
the Kaiser, or, shall we take it, that the behaviour of these 
blackguards to women who found themselves in their power, 
was only typical of the treatment all women must expect, 
when they are at the mercy of German men, no matter 
their rank in life. This is probably nearer the truth. 
KipHng once wrote, apropos of British officers, that 
" God had arranged that a clean-run youth of the British 
middle classes shall in the matter of backbone, brains and 
bowels, surpass all other youths." Tlie truth of it has been 
bravely demonstrated on multitudinous occasions during 
the seven hundred days of bloodshed. If we accept the House 
of Lords as representative of the best blood and oldest 
famihes in the British Islands, which is only partially true, 
the Upper Oasses have suffered as severely; for there is 
not a great house which has not given of its best. 
Over fifty heirs to peerages have fallen in the war ; in 
some instances the succession has been wiped out, in others 
it has been altered more than once by death in action. The 
question has been raised whether a remainder should be 
granted in the female line where the male heirs have 
perished. Every case must be decided on its own merits, 
but so long as hereditary titles and dignities are highly 
esteemed, doubtless none will be permitted to become e.xtinct 
through gallant sacrifice of life. 
It had been hoped that with the Continent practically 
closed against visitors for two years, British spas and watering- 
places would have established themselves securely in the 
affections of the British people. One has to confess with 
sorrow that the opportunity has been thrown away. It is 
true that the administration of many of our spas have dis- 
played the most commendable enterprise, but in the majority 
of instances this has been neutrahsed by the exorbitant 
charges of British hotel-keepers and lodging-house keepers. 
They have gone out and plucked with both hands the last 
feather from the ^oose of the golden eggs. Instead of en- 
■deavouring, as they should have done, to create a new 
connection, they assumed that directly the war was over 
(and most of them thought it would have been over months 
ago), these visitors would desert them, and so they skinned 
them while they had the chance. It is too hopelessly stupid. 
Already they are beginning to feel the effects of this short 
sighted policy, for the business at several British watering 
places shows this year a substantial decrease on last year's 
figures. People are going to the East Coast, preferring to 
face the risk of the high explosives of a German airship than 
the certainty of the high charges of a British innkeeper. 
It is the same with the British waiters (I speak here botn 
of hoteliers and waiters as a class, not as individuals, for I 
am acquainted with admirable exceptions in both cate- 
gories). In places where British waiters reign supreme, it 
is difficult to get a seat or a table unless a head waiter is 
tipped beforehand. Neglect that rite and you are made 
conscious of the neglect in half-a-dozen different ways 
Americans are used to this kind of extortion, but English 
people resent it. They say nothing but do not return. 
Everybody, I suppose, knows Simpson's in the Strand, 
where the joint is wheeled to your table by the carver, whom 
one always tips ; a second helping or " follow " as it is called 
being allowed. I was told by a habitue the other day. 
one of the Knights of the Round Table, it is a recognised 
rule for the same carver never to cut joint and" follow " ; 
but for each helping a separate tip. He said you may see 
old English gentlemen turn purple in the face at being 
expected to fee a second time, though it is only twopence 
and not at all obligatory. But that is the British character. 
I have only mentioned this rule as a mild and harmless 
illustration of a weakness which is frequently carried to 
excess, and which undoubtedly works serious detriment to 
British hotels and restaurants. The average Briton is 
generous to a fault ; in fact, he prides himself on it ; he hates 
to be thought mean as much as it annoys him to be treated 
as a fool. Let him suspect that he is being regarded either 
as one or the other, and he buttons up his pockets, uses bad 
language and takes his custom elsewhere. The foreigner 
thoroughly understands this British idiosyncrasy and plays 
up to it for all it is worth. And it is certainly worth a good 
deal. This is more than half the secret of the foreigner's success 
in this class of business over here. Hermes 
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