Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-28

ter when ne demanded his check The ire
sponsibility OF extreme youth is pathetic.
Separate tables for ladies are set aside
In the rear rooms of most of the quick
lunches. Seats at these tables are occupied
during the noon hour, mostly by young
women, whose fingers still betray the inki-
ness of typewriter ribbons 1t must be
presumed that their incomes are quite
large. for their average orders are much
more abundant than those of most Of the
men. An obtuse man inexperienced in
matters apportaining to young ladies' re-
quirements in the way of nourishment was
seen to grow somewhat round-eyed the
other day.
The Girl Who Knows Impressions.
THAT girl there" he said by way of ex-
PLANTATION, nodding in the direction of a
frail. spirftuelle young woman with
Burne-Jones frame and a Rossetti coun-
tenance, has eaten. before my very eyes,
two corned beef sandwiches, three char
lottes russo, big chunk of watermelon, a
dish of lemon ice, and drank a glass of
iced coffee. Now, ] saw her at the Glen
Echo restaurant the other evening with
her bright, particular youth Her b. p.
youth was frankly hungry, and ate a big
CiEner. She toyed with a wing of chicken,
slipped thimbleful of cafe noir, and SEEM
ed to have pretty thoroughly impressed the
young man with her with the idea that she
regarded persons possessed of an appetite
with unspeakable pity. Am l not justi-
fled In presuming now that she hit up the
refrigerator for cold victuals when she
went home that night?'
The young women who patronize the
quick lunches in pairs trios do not
az pear yet to have mastered the beauties
OF the Dutch treat system. When they
have finished eating there is generally a
silence and lull for space, and then
the pair or trio of them all call for the
check-"one ck"-simultaneously. The
waiter, knowing his gait, does not hand it
to any especial one of them. but puts it
On the table, face downward, and fees.
Ihen there ensues tremendously busy
fumbling in purses; but the money of each
OF the girls seems somehow to be very
nrmly wedged within the purses. When
the girl with the least endurance and nerve
finally extracts a coin or a bill and lays
1t on the check. the money of the other
girls appears like magic, and they all in
slst upon paying for the whole business out
OF hand. But 1t has been noted that the
girl who produces first is the victim in
nine cases out of ten. And yet the time
has been long gore that a half dozen men
could not sit down together at a restaurant
table and, at the conclusion of their meal.
demand individual checks.
Grieved n Waitress.
In the vicinage Of several of the depart
ments are quick lunches, wherein the table
attendants are very neatly gotten-up
young women. They are popular, these
ticipate the wishes of their especial table
patrons. This is at times embarrassing.
"One Of the girls has had ready for me
on my table, for more than year. a glass
OF milk and some crackers-had it waiting
Tor me before l came in at noon,' said one
OF these patrons the other day. Zone noon
last week / came in in state of starva-
ton, and wanted a regular out-and-out
feed. l found the crackers and milk on
my table, and when l told my waitress to
n iva L.
stantial to eat she looked so grieved over
my revolutionary conduct that I felt
ashamed OF myself. wouldn't dare do it
again.
Like the End Seat Hog.
The Washington dairy lunches have re-
Gently erected very commendable COM
bination against the inquisitive person
~hom the proprietors terms the Man With
the Hands. The Man With the Hands is
the chap who likes to feel Of a piece of ME
lying on the tray to ascertain If it is good
and OF legal weight. He has been known
TO thus heft and test about all of the ME
and other eatables in an establishment be-
rore nnahy deciding upon safe invest
ment for his dime or fifteen cents For
many years the Man With the Hands has
peen as adamant to the scowls of the
aproned attendants behind the counters.
and has gone right on indenting his finger
marks on the smooth surfaces of meringlles
and custards with never a caIl-down. But
his day is over. He no sooner picks IN for
critical survey piece of pie, under this
recent combination against him of the
dairy lunch men, than the proprietor
gently beckons to him to retire for mo-
ment to the kitchen. The Man With the
Hands follows the proprietor, wondering
heap. The proprietor carries with him to
the Kitchen the piece Of pie that the Man
With the Hands has critically SURVEYED.
and dumps it into the slop barrel out Of
hand.
You won't be required to pay for that
piece OF pie, of course, old man." says the
proprietor to the Man With the Hands.
but, you see. I'm following a new fad
bacteria. microbes. transmission of dis
eases by means of finger nails and all that
sort OF thing. and, of course, as an old
in this little hobby"
1t is said that all of the confirmed food
pawers upon whom this has been sprung
have taken the hint.