The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-04-29

eating demand which Is still far.
thest from being met Is a combination OF
!, solid food and home cooking with daintiness,
which only women among restaurapcurs
have yet re cognized, and some parts l"hlch
they only know how to supply. rms de-
mand is from women both IN business ana
busy downtown and from mem who have the
same standards of food. price, and servlce.
The difficulty OF narrowing down this sit
uaton to certain and detindt want, Ito :
meet the want through the clever choice OF
a location, and to be sure that there are
no hidden mines OF failure already laid un-
der it. looks big even to the man OF restau- I
rant experience-and formidable to the Won-
an without it, and perhaps without any j
money. either. a. iA
Widow Attempts Business Venture.
Three years ago there sat down at one OF the
tables In n popular lunch room pretty
looking white haired. dark eyed woman
wearing q widows veil She looked GO, OF
55 counting in trouble. She had distinction
and that look Of quiet elegance which there
is no word for II you bar " genteel. She
also looked absolutely the gentle home,
woman, and gave only the faintest subtle.
= suggestion Of the business womanin tho way
she ordered her lunch. Ia
On the strength of this, sitting opposite her
I began conversation. and by the time we
were through the gentle wldow-we VIII call
her Mrs. Marion Crittenden, although she
had even II better sounding name-had hand
ed over her card and told what she WAS doing
With the look of having no place In life ex-
cept as the petted mistress OF well to do
home, but having really only the tiniest md
most precarious income, she had started out
on the small SIX Of forming company to
start her and back her In running lunch
room. Besides this her home had been In the
east and she was comparatively stranger
In q strange land.
Assets We're Her Old Friends.
Her experience had been limited to two or
three years working as assistant to the wom-
an who, had started the place we were IN, and
her idea was to start one on the same scale IN
different locality Her assets were the fact
that she was known to a few men who had
been nccuaintances of her husband, who had
faith In her personally. II they could only be
made to believe In the practical side OF her
scheme and In her nbltyto carry It through,
This was the rub and she admitted that It
seemed an lnsurmountable difficulty. But
will succeed" she said, (" know will, be-
cause there is the e-mand for Just such a
place over there, and-well, I must" She
conldcd all her hopes and fears, and It was
such gentle story, told SO utterly without
business mannerisms or secretiveness, that
the hearer trembled for the success Of Mrs.
Marion Crittenden, 1t was case OF waver-
Ing between doubts OF her gentle look Of un-
fitness for business and faith In the force OF
. her quiet ~ know will succeed. for must"
Lunch Company Success from First.
Ono day about Il year aftcrward there came
letter with circulars about a new lunch
room started over at No. 10 West street.
No. 10 West street was near a great mail
order house.
~ want to see YOU" said the letter,
" and ! want to ask you as favor to come
over here soon to lunch. You see, | have
r realized my expectations of starting in busl-
+, ness" 1t was signed Marion Crttenden,"
/. and the circulars bore the name OF the
Marion Crttendcn Lunch company"
= They set forth attractive viands, good
. qualities. dalntiness quick service, in short
n all the hest features OF the other place with
II few clever additions which constituted a
e difference. In the difference and In tho
y fact of the location near the great mail
| order house fun of women and low salnr!ed
Y men. and the fact that there wasn't anything
y OF the kind near lay the hope OF the success
y of Mrs. Marion Crl,tenden,
y Never getting TO 10 West street 10 share
{. In the Joy OF her achievement resulted, two
: years later. in doubtful turning over the
0 leaves OF the telephone book one day to see
d II her success was permanent. There 1t was
O and Is In the latest book, /" Marion Crttenden
d Lunch company, 10 West street" Inquiry
Las substhn,iatyd tho fact that the Marion