The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-08-07
ARusE % lie STOMACH.
Restaurant Observer Makes Some Pass
Ing Notes.

Ing Notes.
/ was trying to dispose of a straw
berry breakfast and my morning pa
per aNthe same time-about II o'clock.
IT was a public restaurant in Herald
square, and the late breakfasters be-
Gan to become adulterated with early
lunchers. The world never stands still
in Herald square. The kitchen here
shifts COOKS, a new set of walters go
on at given hours, change of faces
in the cashiers window-that's all. But
men and women come and so at the
little, clean bare tables all day, while
new forms and faces are reflected from
the 1nirrored walls at night. There
are men Just finishing their sSppors be-
fore going to bed when the early work
ers begin to pour in for their break
fa.sts. There are breakfasts being or
dered as the midday business lunch is
being bolted by hurried hundreds. In
short, there are breakfasts, lunches,
dinners and suppers being served dur
ing every hour of the day and night
and no questions are asked and no
troublesome explanations required as
To the conner being too late Tor the one
or 100 carly for the other.
Only in such resort can one get Il
realistic glimpse of the great city. /
was thinking of this when young man
CARRYING Il dress suit came in ard took
4 seat opposite to me, ordering a straw
berry shortcal1e and a glass of iced
tea. This served as an appetizer, APP.
,arently, as he Immediately followed il
with q beefsteak, fried potatoes and
coffee. Al of this vanished before /
had finished my strawberries, and the
Young mans place was taken by sleek
looking gentleman, who got single
egg with brown bread and a glass of
water, upon the destruction Of which he
drew from his rear cont tail pocket
small parcel, took therefrom a glass
aiout as big as u thiTnble, and poured
some sort of medicine into it, which he
tossed off with an air of patient res .gna-
ton. a woman with a face that would
split wood sat just beyond, reading o
newspaper through q pair OF gold
glasses between desultory nibbles OF
dry toast and furtive assaults on little
metal teapot on her right. The tea
and the toast cost five cents each, but
she rot five dollars worth out of them.
She looked daggers at a young gourmet
across The way, who began breakfast
with an omclet, called for q clean plate
and got away with huge veal outlet
and fried potatoes and two glasses Of
milk, closing things with two big sec
tions of fruit cake as an evidence OF
good faith.
Such terrible abuses of the human
stomach as can be witnessed IN these
places would brighten savage. Dur
ing business hours an amount Of food
IS lolted within few minutcs-or, at
least, but half masticated--that ought
10 have claimed half or threc-quarters
OF an hour. The women, as a rule, eat
Women in restaurants la
carte are more economical than men,
The Price is n leading consideration
They look over the bill of fare for the |
bargain counter. Next to the surpris- |
mp number of women who live in res
taurants is the surprising cheapness |
with which they live. They can get al!
that is necessary, and get it good, for
about three dollars weekly. Y. Cor.
Pittsburgh Dispatch.