Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-11-03
WHAT TO PUT IN LUNCH BOX
THAT BEATS THE II. C.. L

| Some time ago the fad for carry
ling ones lunch began. 1t began in
| a small way, quietly, as many big
things begin. But before very long it
had really reached such large pro-
portions that it was something to be
reckoned with seriously by restaurant
brought the high prices for food in
the restaurants down or whether
| they came down because the psyche
logical moment for their falling had
arrived, one doesn't know.
Now that carrying ones own lunch
has become a fad. 1t is really causing
much fun to those who do it. There
are lunch clubs in many big Offices
where a good many young women are
lemployed. The members gather to-
gether in a pleasant and quiet room,
and together they eat their lunch
Sometimes they have electric plates or
alcohol stoves. whereon they can pre-
pare tea and coffee or hot chocolate
or even heat soup. And they make
merry over a meal that used to be
spent in crowded. overheated, some
times not too clean and attractive
lunchroom.
And well-to-do business men carry
their lunch, some of them. Others,
having had their attention called to
their increasing weight by the prices
on the menu caIoS, nave ioIaCu
lunchless clubs. and at the time when
they customarily met to eat Literally
and spend their money freely. they
now meet to take hike of mile or
two: and, of course. they feel better
doing it. And not long ago man
hampers and baskets of food taken to
his compartment on the train SO that
he could eat what he wished with
out going to the dining car.
Now, of course. for the woman VINO
works a lunch carried from home
hour earlier in the morning to pre-
pare it herself. And that may not be
worth while. That's the whole point.
When it is worth the money saved to
carry the lunch. well and good. It's
a sensible scheme. But if carrying
lunch from home means that one me, must asa
give up sleep to prepare 1t or that one
will have no appetite for 1t, then
economies in some other line are far
more sensible.
There is no effort now on the part
of lunch carriers to hide or camou-
flage their burdens. They carry lunch
baskets or boxes quite openly, and at
night carry them home again. And
many Of the shops make speciality
of showing Individual lunch boxes.
Two girls who work in the same ONCE
but who live in different parts OF
town decided TO guy LUNCH UoA tot
two-and did buy it. 1t contained a
pint vacuum bottle and sandwich
box big enough to hold provisions for
two, with another small enameled
compartment. Every other day each
Of the girls brings the lunch for both
Of them, 30 every other day the lunch
is a surprise for one Of them, and
each of them has to bother with 1t
only three times a week-two and
half, to be exact. for they lunch at
home on Saturday. But they keep
track of their turns, and one mis- the
box twice one week and three times
the next, and vice versa.
Here were their menus for week
In the vacuum bottle they could put
a LIQUID, hot or cold. as the weather
indicated. In the sandwich box was
room for sandwiches and cake. AND
in the little enamelware box was
room for a salad or some other 1000
that needed special packing.
Monday-Potato salad. corned peer
Sandwiches with mustard. hot choco.
! late. sponge cake and apples bouent
| It the corner fruit stand.
| Tuesday-Hot pea soup. Saltines'
Jelly sandwiches and stunned tomato
salad. $4,000. .,a