The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06

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Peggy and I (said Peggy this time
being the perfectly good cartoonist of
this perfectly good paper lunched most
comfortably and economically yester-
lday at a place maybe you'd like to
know about
1t was in the very attractively APP
lpointed cafe of the Young Women's
lchristian association.
To begin with, we came away after
Satisfying appetites keen from morn
Iings hard work. and a delicious walk
in the fresh, cold, dry air of an early
February Ash Wednesday--our, purses
Tighter by only 10 cents
II you've begun to save up for Easter,
Your lunch money" is an item, but you
wouldn't feel the economy after you'd
taken meal at the place we went.
The perfectly good eartoonist said as
we entered the door, while he took out
his pencil and pad to make a sketch,
that the Young women's Christian as
sociation cafe really looked like a
Rathskellar, except that it wasn't quite
so much So
For instance, there are no leering
Monk Plaques as mural decorations
with a frings of beer stems underneath,
and there are no white-aproned bar
keeps running hither and thither
In fact there's no hurrying around
at all.
Exactly.
You Just feel a sweet sort of repose
la.
portals of this building, and there's a
wholesomeness about the atmosphere
that is invigorating. while at the same
time It is absolutely restful.
You follow the crowd and choose
Iyour own little table--and I'm told
there's always big crowd every day
in the week.
! There's a neat little typewriter menu
placed before you TO tell you that a
special lunch may be had for the tre-
mendously low sum of Is cents-so that
you don't have to wait and haggle and
order, but the entire lunch is brought
to you almost the moment you order it
lserved daintily and nicely all on one
plate, so that If you are In hurry you
can "eat and rum" or take your time
and F'letcherize to your hearts content
The cartoonist's eye ran down the
menu card, because, If you please.
there's more ON it than just the "spe-
cial lunch.
PIE. cents" he read. 'I'd take some
of that, if i We're YOU" he reminded and
then smiled at my hungry, Cassius-like
/ look.
Just then the neatly dressed waiter
brought us two steaming plates OF the
I"bestest things to eat and for the
moment the 'ple for cents was for
gotten.
As we began our luncheon we also be-
gan TO figure out other things on the
menu.
''You could lunch here for less than IS
cents even,' / suggested, as I summed UP
any number of drinkables at cents each
beside pie.
''Or even for cents" said the cartoon
ist, with an eye strictly to business.
! We got busy and for q while everything
! was lost to us except the delicious cut of
beef with tomato sauce. and a heaping
| helping" of candied sweet potatoes, and
the most appetizing of old fashioned
| ''turnips and green's and the loveliast
| tray of hot rolls and another of corn
bread baked into the brownest of sticks,
crisp and deliciously hot.
|
didn't even leave anything for manners .
and after we'd finished each of us said
] that it tasted like more
| But then We have rather large appe-
| ties. we newspaper people, for certainly
anybody who could have eaten any more
than was served at this special lunch
would have been dubbed pig
Glancing around, we were very much
| IMPRESSED with the very nice looking lot
of women and girls who go to the Y W.
c. A. for their luncheon.
We enjoyed watching the crowd i'm
mensely.
Such a different sort of Srowd
There was lot of fun and human in
terest in it all. too, TO stand by and watch
these neatly dressed we'll hammered young
women want what they want, when
they want it," and get it,
We talked ii all over with the ladies in
charge, Mrs Maybelle Sloss Cecil, whose
beautiful work at the Young Women's
II Christian association has been the theme
of writer's and the admiration of this en-
tire community for many years, also
Mrs. Katie Lindley. whose efficient man.
agement of the cafe has been little short
of wonderful to those who know.
The lunch scheme at the Young Won
ems Christian association. we Were told
went into effect on January 16 and has
proven a very popular idea.
As yet it is merely an infant in arms.
1t used to be a popular feature of the
Young Women's Christian association, il
the old days. when this organization oc
cupied rooms in the Watts building, ans
it has only been deferred matter as tc
the ultimate establishment in the new
/, quarters
The Young Women's Christian associa
ton popular priced lunch makes it possi