Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-09-05
GET GOOD MEAL
FOR IA CENTS
American Soldiers and Sailors
Well Cared For by Y. M. C. A.
in London.
BOYS LONG FOR HOME EATS
Eagle Hut Represents Last Word in
Economical Eating in British Capt.
tal-Menu Shows Great Vari.
ETY. of Dishes.

LondOn.-FOurteen cents for sat-
isfying meal. twenty-five cents for a
superlatively filling repast. These
prices reveal that the high cost of eat
ing should have no terrors to the
American soldier or sailor ION his
own" in London. It represents that
last word in economical eating even
for the English capital where prices
are uniformly moderate. Even the big
ger public eating places, where large
turnover allows a low charge, the low
est price charged for a modest meal
is tenpence-20 cents, while the meal
which costs the Yankee fighter a shil-
ling costs the civilian as much as IS
cents.
Moreover, it is American food. Not
every American boy in olive drab or
navy blue who lands in London has
literary tourists ambition to eat at the
Cheshire Cheese or the Blackfriars or
any Of the other quaint inns made ia
nous by Dickens or Thackeray. Many
Of our fighters do not care for the pom
derous dishes Of the tWO-decker nov
els, but yearn for modern home eats.
Where King Ate Pancakes.
And they get it, at IA to IS cents,
at Eagle Hut, the famous Y. M. c. A.
center, where King George and Queen
Mary recently enjoyed pancakes la
American.
The 14-cent rate is cheaper even
than that charged at the national mod
eel kitchen, where q three-cOurse meal
Qf soup, beef and pudding costs Is
cents Mrs. Arthur Coke of London,
who makes out all the Hut menus, not
only meets all government require
ments, but sees to it that there is prop
er and attractive variation in the
dishes from day to day. The food is
plain, to be sure, but it all is of high
quality, and the portions show no
stinting.
Breakfast and supper each cost Il
cents. A breakfast consists of cereal,
sausage Or bacon, bread and tea. A
recent supper consisted of sausage,
well done, thick slices Of bread with
butter, marmalade and tea. The same
food costs from 25 to 30 cents at the
WeSt-end restaurants.
A typical shilling dinner includes
Scotch broth, stewed steak or cold
beef, potatoes, buttered beets, currant
pudding, bread, tea or coffee. The
soups are not the dishWater type,
either, but of good stock. An Eagle
Hut shilling supper provides the
American fighter with meat pie con-
tanning more meat than crust, or saul
sage, potatoes, jelly, bread and butter,
cake and tea or coffee. Commercial
eating places charge two or three
times this amount, often as high as IS
cents, within governmental restric-
tiQns.
Variety to Choose From.
The American soldier or sailor also
can choose from extra dishes at equal
1y low prices, choice Of fish, pie, eggs
prepared in various ways, baked beans,
salads, fried onions, rice-and-marma-
lade, cuStards, jellies and other sweets
which are strangers to camp mess.
~ pllNNo Shul SCu at A1IS 1AdS1C AAoI
are from two to six cents less than
the ordinary restaurant prices. In adj
dition, this is the one place where the
American boys can get that most typ
ical home delicacy, American pancakes
with maple strip, which the king and
queen sampled recently. Twelve
cents buys a brace of cakes with ma
pie strip. and the first half-month's de-
mhnd for this favorite totaled one or
more helpings for 6,124 men.
1t is no wonder then that Eagle Hut
feeds between 1000 and $500 Ameri-
can fighters daily, and that the noon
hour is continuous rush which taxes
to the uttermost the efforts of the
Mattresses, all women who volunteer
their services and minister with smil-
ing patience and friendliness to the
appreciative lads from the United
States.
Eagle Hut dispenses other commodi-
ties, tobacco and candy topping the
list Of favorites. A few Americans,
forgetting the many advantages and
economies found at the Hut, have COM
plSined that their favorite brands of
American tobacco, if at all obtainable,
cost them more than it did at home.
They did not know that there is
high import duty on cigarettes and
prepared tobacco for pipes and "mak-
ings. nor that there is a home tax
which is causing the English tobac
conists to revise their prices often.
Smoking imported tobacco in England
today really is a luxury. The wise
stranger has given it up in favor of
the brands the English use.
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