Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1877-12-04
One Cent a Plate.

"The cheapest dining-rO i'm the city, is
the claim placarded on a house in Grand
street, close to Clinton. The restaurant is a
plain room OF moderate size, furnished with
common tables and large sidebOard. 1--WE
put cloths on the tables when We opened, a
week ago. said the elderly woman who aided
by her son, conducts the establishment but
there was such rush of boys, who were nei-
Their mannerly nor near. that We had to take
them on: We are fitting up another room
around the corner especially for the boys and
when that is open We shall reserve this place
for adults"
Printed bills of fare were scattered about,
giving the following prices small cup of
tea or coffee, with sugar and milk, one cent: a
cup OF the ordinary size, two cents bread and
butter, one cent; soup, one cent: a slice of
corned beef, one cent; baked or boiled pO-
tatO. one cent: cabbage, one cent: baked
beans, one cent: boiled or fried mush, one
cent: oatmeal, one cent boiled rice. one cent :
quarter of pie, three cents: The quality of
all these things are excellent but the one cent
portions are small, yet a fair appetite could be
appeaSed for five cents, and a ravenOuS one
for TO-. Everything is clean, and the cooking
is good good: .,,n,o., ,,,,
the woman yesterday.
'Charity!'' she exclaimed; '.why. sir, this
isn't charitable institution; it is a business
enterprise, and guess ii is going to pay. The
margin for profit is small, as you may ina
CINE, but it will be enough to live on if the
crowds come as they have been coming. We
have to buy close, and waste nothing, but by
y
cents worth We SELL
The newsbOys entered nOisily, seated them
selves at table, as party of demOnstrative
but unaccustOmed fellows might i'm DelimOn-
icO's, and perused the bill Of fare. One or
dered cOrned beef, beans, a cup of coffee, and
cruller, at total cost OF four cents. One had
large cup oil coffee and a quarter of a pie at
the same cost. The third more recklesSly or
dered a cup OF coffee, bread and butter. beans.
corned beef, cruller, fried hOminy, a po-
tatO. and a dOughnut, at an expenditure of
a m a hafn tl,a
food was all eaten, and, in spite of hard gulp-
ing, half of the dOughnuts and third OF the
potato were left.
Boys are our principal customers" said the
woman, and we have rush Of them about 5
or o clock; but at breakfast and lunch times
we have good many working men and wO-
men. Why, sir, at the rate we are starting out
don know but We occupy whole building
in few mOnths.n-[N. Y. Sun.
THE GENEVA CONGRESS AGAINST PROsTI
TUITION is described i'm an encouraging way by
Julia Ward Howe, who was member OF il, in
a long letter to the W0mdns Journal This
Congress to which the regular press dispatches
gave no attention, was presided over by
James Stanfield, a noted woman suffrage adj
yOcate i'm the house of commons, and attended
by delegates from France, Spain, Italy, Ger
many, Switzerland and America, besides Eng
land, where the movement for the congress
originated In an association springing from
of houses of prostitution. Gorilla, the exied
Spanish prime minister, Rev. Mr.. Pressense
and Leon Richer, Prof. COllOnna of SalernO
Gustave MOnOd, Court Preacher Bauer of Ber-
lin, Pro- Stuart of Trinity college, Cambridge
Miss Estlin, Miss Lucas "a sister of the
Brights), Amelia BOlte, Nine. Jessie White
Mario, Aron Powell are some of the names
mentioned by Mrs. Howe. There were sec
tons Of moral, hygiene, social economy, bene
ficence and legislation, each holding separate
sessions, with interspersed meetings of the
whole congress to compare results. The pro-
ceedings were carried on mostly i'm French
with occasional English TRANSACTIONS and Mrs.
Howe admired the courage of some of the
English speakers who had their essays done
into French for them, and then read them
aloud, though without any acquaintance with
accent or pronunciation. Mrs. Howe con-
Steers that much good work was done toward
The end of creating a law for morals in both
man and woman. The purity and propriety
of the intention which drew the congress to-.
gether were never for moment violated in
my hearing" she says; "yet there were no
Sinking any item of The terrible subject under
lis consideration" Mrs. Howe was struck by
the fact that the discussions compelled wide
study of the condition of wOmen's labor and
education. She finds the special and prOmis-
ing feature of the congress that "it showed
the new spectacle of manhood, confessing its
own sins, cOnspiring with wOmanhOOd to
make good its deadly deficit. "-[&prinlfeltl
Republican.