The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-02-03
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the budding enterprise received a slap In
the face and was almost ruined. man
opened a cafe underneath it and the girls
fled Women could not so in and out and
up and down over saloon. and that end
ed it, The proprietress picked up her be-
longingS, soup pot, gridiron and coffee
urn, and set them down in a new place.
For the third time there was the miser-
able getting used to new surroundings.
The unique undertaking again flourished
after time however, and its success dis
proves several moIdy and disintegratinS
libels. The first is that women will not
patronize and support their own sex: the
second is that they prefer the company
OF men to that of one another. Girls come
to the restaurant each noontide by the
hundred stenographers. telegraphers.
book-keepers. cashiers. clerks and law
yers. girls dark and fair, plump and viii
lowy, with their natty. new-fashionad
short skirts and tasteful INFUSED up
business hats. They are refined and in
telIigent-looking young business women
They do not lunch on chocolate creams
and ffim-fam. Not they. Old-ttme poets
and roma~cers bestow on their heroines
the appetite of canary. and have ply
sicians prescribe goats whey and gentle
exercise for lovelorn maidens- The food
is as substantial as at any mans restau-
rant-much the same, in fact Some diff
ference indeed. there is. No beer is served
and there are four kinds OF dessert.
Yet third moIdy libel on the feminine
sex receives q blow in this iunchroom- 1t
is that women chatter like magpies when
they are together and unrestrained by tho
Overwhelming presence of man. American
women do not. at any rate These girls
of business are surprisingly quiet. They
enter and take their places al table with
a preoccupied look. as though they have
brought their work with them 4 their
minds and cannot Immediately slip 1t OF
and put 1t down like peddler's pack.
The girls talk of clothes. of beaux and OF
woes. These not exclusively, but among
other matters. Women pour their griev-
auces and sorrows into the sympa,hetie
ears of sister women. II Is way the sex
has If an unreasonable or ill-tempered
employer could hear the verdict pro-
nounced on him in this women's lunch
room he would never scold the girls again.
From one table floats talk on fashions. II
you listen to words not at all intended
for your ear you will find that one OF
these businessIike young women IS ac-
tuaIIy betting another that she can de-
tect every girl in that room who wears
one of the new skirt pads the minute she
sees her walk
THE pads always wabble." she says.
IT bet you can't do it," answers the
other. THE wabbIy ones are made OF
wire springs II you make EN- OF bird
seed
Now. look out. or you'll get me angry
saws another business woman pretty
girl. whose chums are suying her.
II don't believe we could. replies hee
friend. you are so sood-tempered-
Its true. never lose my temper e1-
cspt at home, replies the pretty slfi.
That's the worst possible place 70 1859
it," remarks a womaa attorney. speaking
! as one having authority. 1T always raises
| the biggest row. makes divorce cases and
work without end for the lawyers
..But you can't keep youi temper at
The woman lawyer thinks you can II
! you try. decidedly
| their profession that they talk shop q lit
| tIe even at the table They are tnser-
esfed In cases in which members or the
/ har of ir own sex are acting as assor-5
news newspaper women are perhaps
wore silent than the rest Mayhap they
M. n1,1sins on whether tL sill pay BETTER
tn strive for higher reward in the 1ournat-
fs,ic profession or TO strive TO set OUT OK
| il altogether. Maybe IL IS q toss-1p.