Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-11

upon it was as large as that Of the menu of
one Of the best New York restaurants, the
price of each dish being marked in plain
figures. At the top was a charge of 2 cents
for the napkin and of 2 cents for bread,
and below this the soups. I ordered boul-
lon with bread in 1t for cents and followed
with some sole deliciousy cooked. After
that had 14-cent steak with fried pota-
toes, which would have cost me co cents at
the restaurant l usually patronize in New
York, and 1 ended up with a dessert of
Strawberries, frontage de la Suisse and
cup of black coffee. 1 had bottle of white
Bordeaux at a cost of II cents and also left
cents on the table for the waitress. The
whole meal cost less than GO cents includ-
ing the fee, and 1t was as good as any meal
you can get in the United States for 81.
| The waitress was well satisfied with my
gift. the usual fee being about a sou to the
franc she depends entirely upon her fees
for her wages, as is customary in many of
the restaurants of Paris
A Slot Restaurant.
How would you like to lunch at a rastau-
rant where you can put a penny in the slot
! and pull out anything you want? 1 have
found such restaurant here in the heart
of Paris. 1t is on the Boulevard des Ital-
lens. just above the Credit Lyonnaise and
within a stones throw of the Opera House
The room is walled with mirrors, tioored
with tiles and fitted up like a parlor.
Around the walls are slot machines made of
olHeIeHt-Coioreu marbles, decorated with
silver and with porcelain figures and fin
ished somewhat like the finest of our soda
water fountains.
Every slot will furnish you something
to tempt your palate, and the different
things you can buy is surprising. l had
just had dinner before 1 entered the place
last night, and began my experiment with
cup Of black coffee There was a sign
Cafe noir for 10 centmes," over a silver
plated slot, and an after-dinner coffee cup
standing under a silver spigot below. put
a 2-sou piece in the Slot and within five
seconds stream of rich. steaming black
coffee poured forth into the cup. 1t con-
tinued to pour until 1t just filled the cup
and then stopped short. 1 added some su-
gar from pile of white Jumps lying on a
shelf below, and as 1 drank 1 stood in front
Of one of the mirrors beside a pretty
French girl who finishing a cup of
cacao she had taken from the neighboring
slot. The next machine supplied hot choco-
late at cents cup, and further on were
others which gave out different kinds of
liquors. chartreuse, benedictine and cognac
for 3 or 4 cents pony. / noticed a slot
over one spigot which bore the words
american grog," and tested it. The re-
suit was a red liquor with a sweetish taste
that would think kill at forty rods.
While waiting l watched customers COM
ing in for their various drinks. One young
man took a glass from the milk slot. two
Germans patronZed the beer slot, each get
ting a glass of beer twice as large as that
commonly sold in the United States. and
young dandy and his sweetheart, for two
10-cent pieces dropped into the slot of
bottle-like machine in the middle of the
wall drew out two glasses of sparkling
champagne. There We're also soda-wa ter
slot machines and which furnished
consomme hot beef tea at cents per
drink.
Slots Which Give Sandwiches and Ices
There was an ice-cream slot, the cream
being kept in little round dishes under