The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-23
A LYING BASED ON WAFRLES
STORY or A RESTAI RANT OWNED
n 4 SOUTHERN WOMAN.
u Began In n Tea Room where she Oct -
Week Economy saved Capital
Needed Chances for the woman
NhO Makes One Dish Extra well.

NNguEu OAuEN8 IOE inc woman
Who Makes One Dish Extra well.
1T in more than FIVE ,Nears since began
TO earn my living by making Maryland
waffies.- said a southern woman who In
settled in New York i came here with
my husbands mother and my two chill
dren soon after the death of my husband.
because there seemed nothing else to- do
We had less than SIOO when We landed In
New York. NV first idea was 10 get in n
store. Mother was 70 STAY at home and
COX after the children while ! brought
the money. But the highest wages
offered me was o. a week
Talking 10 "A friend who was making
SIS "A week as "A stenographer she said 10
was "A pity ! couldn't get something To-
do that would leave me time to study
shorthand or bookkeeping Sire said she
remembered what delicious wafties I
made Then she added
Il tell YOU what you do Go 10 some
nice little restaurant or tea room and
oifcr to make waff'es on trial. say for "a
few hours in the morning or afternoon
II IN" venture IL a success. and believe
It will he. they will pay you al least sI5
q week and besides YOU will have plenty
u time tn study shorthand or whatever
YOU decide ON
she offered to take me the next day
20 a tea room and introduce me 60 the
proprietress. whom she knew slightly
Well. the next day at her lunch hour We
called at the tea room. The propristrer-
didn't have much faith in the venture
few II any Of her customers wer,, south
arners but consented 20 let me nv for a
/ sUtthn,te 4 laI
the second week would be paid 81. with
hours from tos.
-for the first three days I had no orders
for wafie- except from my friend and
tho-- Sh" brought along with her. On
Wednesday rhe suggested that | make "A
few wafI'es and have them served free to
persons taking tea. Following THE sug-
ge-tion. | served TAI each person ordering
pot Of tea one waftllc. with butter and
strip In nearly every Ios'anCe a call
came back for "A fun order 81 va files and
strip The next day many of those same
people came back. aud 10y saturday night
even the -Cspttcal prophet re-s had Ia adj
init that Northern-rs liked waites
The following Monday began regular
work AZ e. a wcek BY the end az that first
month III. demand for waff'es had become /
~ brisk that she was forced Ia give me an /
assistant Another month and She asked /
me To make wsffies for lunch well as
for tea and my pay was raised Ia ti5.
Thai light when I went To see NV
friend and tod her about INV raise she
cooked a. me pretty serio"sly for n while,
then said Il | took her advice ! would
give up studvIng short hand and stick .
TO cooking waflrs she said =he had ~
work four years l..iOre she reached SIS
a week for 'wIC" as much time ~ wa
giving II listened to her ! would stick
10 Maryland Wafiles. save my money and
set un restaurant of my own
THAI " exactly what have done !
worked IN that tea room for four year.,
Will. mother saved every dollar sh" p0s-
slhlv could. last fell. iIsf o." year ago
] opened a restaurant e my own iu which
| serve MARYLAND Nlf'ie- hot and with
butter and siuIp all day long and for
supper ~ late ~ - q clock NJ wight
-FeO'le have asEe'l frr how ! managed
10 saye ont - GA inc,,u" Of SIS q wees
] want 90 say ~" l,-i - cents y week
whsG ] Wa only earning s. "" lived IN
on" small ToUm On the top ioUr ot a fur
uI-hpsi room horse which gave ~ the
usC of the laundry aud Kitchen. We paid
e. week for the room ana u"Caii-e u .
was near enough 20 th" tea room TO per-
init Of nv walking hack aId 'prih there
was nothing for "Irfare tn" a. 81 won;
for food and fu~' soap and starch mother
and doing all the work.
When | had ia" rats" 80 81 W. took
iprI- room ha' Du be f0i hD"r Cd; 70 nos
tenement nous" aud mother vcn' upm.
and Ra'h"Ts-l th" furniture -" hal left
beh md with tTleu i anu nal % r'IIpeu
NJ From m" aav ~" novel ,pIo that
iat until We moved cut she never L.; our
weekly expense ~ above - IN" rent
wa 81 AZ tN.rv week she would take Ou'
the - AMI s"Jpsit g. m bank
out Il mn, s. ." -hc gave me 81 cents
week for oa-iirr. We didn't buy mach
IN the wav ~: lJ'n"s cNcCV' shoes The
~rCu.' 4 her economy was IA inioili gent
hIvtne ard COOLING
We continued 20 liv" ~ oar -four room
aai and 80 danrSu 81 q Nack ~ the savings
Nov we live m 'he hpusP with the rest au-
raIt and my family - Cpurvs AXE their
meal. here Both - my BOYS were err
tered tn IN" rlhiic ~ohpui- a. soon a.
= hoy reached IN" school aGe and expect
to keep them thor" until they have finished
the high school Ao'her does most
Of INC buying frr IN" rest lurant
This year afrer 'ayirg for my fuT
ni'ura aud III" eN;' ~ starting the
bIsincss ! cleared In rho neighborhood
81 81 80 This il above al cNponS"s
ana goca 80 take ~" pln~e ~ tho s.
week which We 'I-r - dcf0Tit IN nc snv-
ing hank
i uov have Two Southern women
besi,,cs myself IN no kitchen ~ my TcS' Az
rant Tho El-aCiaFy u one - Chkes and
brrai. ~ the Uth"r Ias' ~ ! cont inuc
TO make the waffio- and have succeeded
in gc,'ing mo-' ~ my Gust TONERS " the
tea room - follow me. II n woman
c=an wake ar" cgf.ncial dish cNtra well
! believe therr - rlvays n good opening