The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-12

| full of almonds at noon. In another build
| ing the stenographers and clerks are con-
WINGED that diet Of fruit will do wonders
| for the complexion and instead of going
| to a restaurant at noon, they eat three
or four oranges and take brisk walk up
| the avenue.
| What pie Is to a man, ices are to a
woman. Where the latter has to econ omize
on her luncheon she not infrequently goes
| to modest restaurant for her coffee and
sandwiches and then visits one of the
more expensive tearooms foc an ice, which
she eats leisurely and with enjoyment.
But she always takes the coffee and sand
witches first.
! There is one thing that women resent
and refuse to understand. and that is the
| line that runs across the menus at several
| tearOOms, Extra service, Is cents" They
| regard this charge as a personal affrOnt,
and question the right of the proprietor to
increase the expense if two Of them are
willing to share an order of salad. Nine
times out Of ten they never see the line
until the order of salad is eaten and the
! check returned. Then there are explana-
tons and expostulations and general re-
greet. eve might Just as well have or
dered something else," they murmur as
| they leave the cashiers desk. eve might
as we'll pay for something to eat as for a
plate and knife and fork"
! There is only one lunchroom in the city
which caters exclusively to women, and
that is at the Young Women's Christian
Association. The menu served Is whole
some and glance at the amount Of food
necessary to fill the orders for one day
will show that the sweets are hopelessly
in the minority. About $50 women and
girls are served every day, and to provide
luncheon for them it takes bushel Of
| potatoes eight quarts Of tomatoes, sixteen
| r,tc of tho
peas, four gallons Of rice, eight to ten
gallons OF soup, twelve pounds Of meat,
four gallons of baked beans, gallon of
| oysters, twenty dozen rolls, fifteen loaves
| Of bread, two gallons of sauce, only TWEEN
ty pies, ten quarts of pudding, fifteen gal
Ions of coffee and five gallons Of chocolate.
| When fresh peas are served two bushels
| are required and five dozen lunches of as
| paragus All of these are not served every
! day, but these portions are cooked when
| they are served. The menu each noon in
! cludes soup, meat stew or hash, potatoes,
| two other vegetables, one of which is al
ways tomatoes, rolls, bread, sauce, pie or
pudding, coffee and chocolate. In the
summer salads and ices are served. The
Y. w. c. A. beef hash on Saturdays is IA
nous and many women go specially on
Saturday to order 1T. The same is true of
| rice and cream on Fridays.
Most Of the women who take their
luncheons at the association only buy
something to supplement what they have
| brought from home-a hot dish or coffee
or sauce. Many come to the rooms only
to secure quiet place In which to eat
their sandwiches, and this fact accounts
for the quantities Of food used in room
where $50 people take their luncheons.
The proportion of pies and buildings is a
good index of what women eat. for the
supplements must, from the quantities
served, more often be q soup, a cup OF
coffee OF a dish of sauce than piece of pie
or a service OF pudding.