Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-12-18

size of marrow bone if the person on ones left is
the owner of yacht and cottage at Newport?
Inus, while the household consumer is actually
struggling with the high cost of living the diner
out is struggling with the cost of high living which
grows more expensive with each week of the war.
This is not true of all diners-out, of course.
Usually healthy appetite will seek its own level,
and wherever there is a demand for well-cooked,
nourlshlng food at moderate prices establish
nent answering these requirements grows up.
rake New York, for example. Nowhere may the
d1ner-out be found in such copious numbers, and
conspicuous
There are many cafes in New York, notably the
french and Italian table dhotes that serve excel
tent meals at amazingly low prices. This is doubt
less because most of their patrons foreigners,
and foreigners more apt to pay for what they
get, not for what they look Then these cafes are
out of the fashionable district Far from the raz-
Me-dazzle of Broadway, they disdained by most
New Workers. who not to be satisfied with n
mere billof-fare. Ask New Yorker what he
Knows about any of the foreign cafes of the table
dhote variety and he will most likely tell YOU.
never been there"
Cheapness is the one crime that cannot be for
given by the New Yorker. A dinner NAV be well
planned and we'll cooked the service excflnt the
music far above the average, and yet if the New
Yorker does not go away with the pleasant feeling
that he has been robbed he is always suspicious of
that cafe. This fall Italian restaurant near the
Greenwich village section was offering dinner for
seventy cents. 1t was served in huge, well-ven-
uiated. room furnished very simply in sturdy oak
it is true minus the gilded grandeur OF the cafes
farther uptown, and the music consisted of
strlnged orchestra and tenor instead of jass band
The dinner included a RELISH large dish of
soup-and real soup of the thick, old-fashioned
variety; meat or fish, with a vegetable and
plenty of rolls and butter; a bowl of saIad des-
sert consisting of ice fruit, and choice
of cream or ROqu5fort cheese. Coffee and a pint
bottle of claret or beer served with the din
ner. The guests served promptly and courte-
ously-a rare occurrence in New York. d. The din
ing-room crowded but not beyond its capacity
a large number of Italians artists and theatrical
people being present.
At the same time much-advertised roof gar
den somewhere in the upper fortes was serving
dinner that cost between three and four dollars
This was not table dehote dinner, but that was
the least which, after careful selection from the
menu, dinner could be bought for. One dinner
for instance, consisting of clover-cIub cocktail
small piece of veal and two little bullet potatoes
a pale tomato salad and minute French pastry,
cost three dollars and fifty cents. Each course
was brought at intervals of one hour; the waiter
had to be asked three times to bring butter and
although asked at least dozen times he never did
bring any water.
But, of course, the place was picturesque. The
ceiling studded with vari-colored lights a
fountain with water lilies sent gentle spray up to
the ceiling in the middle of the room and occa-
sionally out of all the din and cater of travelling
china and hundreds of voices the faint strains of
jass band could be discerned. Here the New
Yorker was in his element. There was in his own
vernacular, 'some class" to a place like this As,
one lady so aptly expressed it, "A1l the swagger
people come here"
The same lady also told with some chagrin that
she had been in the Automat for the first time the
day before having been dragged there by her little
nephew who caught sight of something he wanted.
''I chose the most inconspicuous corner" she said
shivering prettlv, "and kept veil down so that
no one would recognize When YOU do thing
like that, you know, you must travel incog."
Thus, you really cannot blame the fashionable
cafes for making out of their patriotic duty
in conserving food The people would be disap-
pointed if they didn't. For. after all. it depends
wholly them. Whatever they demand they get.