The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-03-02
TEMPERANCE LUNCH ROOMS.
HOW THEY MANAGE THEM IN MILWAUKEE
AN ANTIDOTE FOR sAIOONs

AN fOR SALOONS.
The Milwaukee News gives the following
description of temperance restaurant in
that city: The ladies of the temperance
Dand assured reporter for the News who
called on them yesterday afternoon that
their project of temperance restaurant
and lunch house was even more success
full than they had expected or even dared to
hope. The rooms of the band are at So Ma
son street, and more pleasant and cheerful
resort could not be wished for. The dining
room is @well lighted, comfortable apart
meut, in which everything IS most scrupu-
lousy clean and neat. The sitting
room is handsomely furnished; the
walls are decorated with pictures:
the tables are literally supplied with papers,
and capacious book case Is filled with in
teresting books. A piano stands in one cor
ner, at which the young ladies in attend
ance occasionally preside, while flowers and
hot house plants add an air OF homelike
comfort and good cheer that pervades the
entire suit of rooms. Mrs. SOuthwell has
ment at the rooms, and Miss Hood is
cashier. These two ladies devote their co.
tire time to the enterprise and are the re-
cipients of small salaries. All the rest of
the work is gratuitous, the ladies of the
band taking turns in visiting the institution.
One of the officers or executive committee is
in attendance daily. The tables in the din
the Young Women's Temperance League,
who relieve each other daily.
THE BILL OF FARE.
The object ofthe band in founding this in
stitution is to supply the public with place
where good meal can be had at a moderate
price; where it can be partsken OF without
the temptation to indulge in Hot
Societies." '1om and Jerries," and other
equally pleasant appetizers, and where
foaming mugs of lager will not
be required to wash down the
more solid parts of the feast. It was
hoped that the presence of the intelligent
and refined ladies in attendance would
prove an attraction TO many young men
who were fast contracting the habit of
spending their evenings in saloons, and that
| tins pleasant parlors, reading and music
would be the means of effecting more real,
than any Of the various other
devices with which ''lovely wo-
man. seeks to dethrone king alcohol
| The News is gratified in being able to state
that the disinterested labors of these noble
women are meeting with success. The fol-
lowing is the bill of fare, with the prices of
each article attached: Oysters, Is cents; ham,
bread, butter and pick ies. Is; cold turkey,
bread, butter and pickles, Is; tea. s.; coffee.
5; milk, 5; pie and cheese, 10; dough-
nuts, 5; sandwich, 8; pork and beans,
| 10. 1t will be seen that hearty lunch may be
had at rates which seem frightfully low.
The rooms are open from in the morn
| ing until 10 o'clock al night, during
which time the band will extend hearty
welcome to all who may favor
them with their patronage. The
parlors being convenient to end of the track
OF the Eastside street railroad, parties wait
| ing for the cars will fud them an exceed
| ingly desirable place in which TO sit. The
temperance band is composed of some of
Milwaukee's most estimable ladies. They
have for some time been engaged
in maturing their plans for an
organized effort against the
influence exerted, particularly upon young
men, by the saloons. At first it was pro-
posed 70 hold street and saloon prayer meet
| ipgs. This course in other cities, however,
having proven such failure, the idea was
Immediately abandoned and the present
plan adopted. The institution is modelled
after a similar one in Cleveland. Ohio, which
has proven eminently successful In every
particular.