The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-12
NOW A BLOOMER CAFE
San Francisco Waiter Girls in the
Costume of the New Woman.
OLD MEN CAN'T KEEP AWAY
The Girls Are Pretty. and Besides
the Boomers Wear Shirt Waists
and Tall Coliars-A Howl
ing Success.

triumph for bloomers. In modest let
tiers the words "Bloomer Cafe" at No.
All California street. in San Francisco.
announce the arrival of the pioneer
eating house where the waiter girls
are garbed as the New Woman. The
innovation is a taking one. and is en-
toying to the full the patronage or
the men about town as well as the
business men
This interesting cafe Is situated in
The heart of the busiest district of the
city. Across the way is the Bank OF
California; alongside is the Merchants
Exchange: around the corner on either
hand are Wholesale houses and brok-
ers' offices. and the crush of the hun
cry at the noon hour is nowhere as
great as In this locality.
The novelty has by no means worn
off, and an eager knot Of men and
boys may be seen all day looking in at
the door to get a glimpse OF the maid
ems who are making history and who
are fully alive to the fact that they
are the first of their sex to work in
mans own garments. IT is the charge
of the biscuit shooter" in earnest.
If you have any doubt as to whether
the attraction is boomers or the bin
of fare Just watch the look OF expect
ancy on the face of the visitor The
smile is all ready as he enters, and
broadens as the bicurcaIted maiden
modestly approaches to take his order.
He is all attention to the beautiful APP
partition. and If he Is a susceptible
young man, he is apt to forget that he
has come there to eat until he Is
prompted by the young woman. As a
rule the bloomered waiter girls are
we'll worth any mans observation.
The girls long ago lost the last vestige
of stage fright attendant on their de-
but in this new role. and now regard
their boomers and leggings solely
from the business standpoint.
The costume worn by the young wo-
men is practically uniform. 1t con-
sists of rather full boomers, plated
from the waistband and falling below
the knee The shirt waists range from
pink to green. with collars of varying
degrees of height and width. A short
| zouave Jacket is worn with the waist.
| The bloomers are drawn up to jus.
below the knee. where they fall
over black leggings. also full. The
material ds blue serge. and the effect Is
| that of the regulation bicycle bloom
ers.
| 1t is with a conscious look that the
bloomered young woman domestic take
| an order. There Is a playful look In
| the corner of her eve and of hard and
fast resolution in the tightly drawn
corner of the mouth. Perhaps this Il
| due to inexperience. for there are very
few waiter girls in San Francisco
| Thar portion of the service so mucf
given to women in the East is here
relocated to the men. So the bloomel
| pioneers are at a disadvantage ait twt
points.
"Do I like tt?' said one of thes
bloomer girls. "Well. yes. on 1.-THE whole
You see there are many advap
tages. OF course there are any mum
Der of men who come in here to gu.
US, but they have not made ii un
pleasant for me vet. The costume !
away ahead of a skirt to work in !
is awfully handy to have no skirts I
catch on the tables or doors or Z
drag about. In that way it beats any
thing ever saw. / never had any ex
perience with the boomers before
came here either. 1 never rode
wheel.
'If the old men and boys would jus
LEI us alone IT would be all right. Tn
men come I'm. SIT down. and while the
look over THE bill of fare they &c
funny and want to know how we Xix
it as far as we have got. Then tn
small boys peep in at the door an
make remarks. But they will learn !
time"
tits the greatest success have eve
seem" sair Manager Delmay. Il hav
had to enlarge my force now by hirin
another girl and two men" The pee
pie come in droves. And the cleanl
ness of the costume at once impresse
itself on the girls themselves.
'I had lots of trouble ITO get them 4
nut on the bloomers at first, becaus
they did not know anything aboJ
them. 1 applied to an employment O
fee for the mattresses. and the fir
lot would not wear boomers for III
lob. 1 don't know why 1T should
so. either. for a woman who rides
wheel in the park on Sunday is mol
in view than a waiter girl. l am no
thinking / will have to look for MOI
new women IL my trade keeps c
growing"
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