Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-01-05
Restaurant Dangers
Depend On GIRL Assert
Nezg York Mattresses

@EWritten by Margaret Rex for the
international News sergicc.)
New York. Jan. 4.-Does :he
pyaitress walk in the wo:2 Of temp
cation?
According to Mrs Frances Demo
Uan, prominent Chicago social
worker, II is the most Dangerous
-7ccupation woman can enter.
Aceordirs to five repre- tentative
mattresses interviewed by The
sgriter suon sweeping statements
cannot be made truthfuiIy, and the
--temptatioa all depends on the
eDne who yaits" herself
DO not raise your daughter TO
BE a waitress" warns Mrs. Dom
e3van, who mas come to her start
ing conclusions after an investiga-
zion of conditions that covers nine
months. In order to inform her
self accurately concerning this
ssubject Mrs. Donovan says she has
s0orked in restaurants, both cheap
sznd expensive, in hotels and grill
rooms, In tea shops and In exclus-
i've clubs. All of these eating pla-
Ases, she says, offer a menace to
the girl who works in them.
In the cheaper restaurants, she
says, the patrons expect little visits
with the girl who serves them
Rood-the men who come in at
other times than the rush hour.
Mrs. Donovan Experience
Mrs. Donovan tells of her first
nip received in an exclusive tea
room.
" "There's twenty cents on your
sable, dearie,' one of the waitress
ssa told me. / hastened back TO
nick 1t UP, because ] thought
had earned 1t. Under the dimes
was the business card OF my late
customer, with his name, address
and telephone number | wonder
srd why. but | soon learned the
meaning of this card left for the
waitress.
~'The result is," concludess Mrs.
TJonoyan, that almost every wait
Pesss has two or three husbands
during her lie; that 4S per cent
ssf them are Divorces; that so per
-nnt of them are married tempo
rarily and that the remaining ~
Tyer cent are single"
Judging from Mrs Donovan's'
prsHnclusions the waiting" business
would seem to offer unparalleled
sDpportunities to enter matrimony'
Esut not to be secure in wedlock.
As against such reflections upo1
E,ess In medium priced restaur-
.sIssfually wait on table for their
IGvellhoods, the following opinions
were garnered.
What Mattresses Say
s'Everything depends on the
Hzfrl herself" said one trim wait
sssEs in medium priced restour-
s1nt. II think It is very wrong to
say such things tbout any one class
al working people.
"As far as temptation goes there
As certainly as much in a factory;
nIhat is, as many opportunities FOR
men to approach girls and annoy
flbem Oh in n department store
"a man can pretend to be buying
something and stop to talk to a
ssfrl II she catches his eye, | don't
Believe what that social worker
ssMys about Mattresses"
In an uptown tea room a sweet
faced, serious-looking girl satd;
-'That IL foolish. No man, even
SbF the worst kind will bother a
Ssfrl If she shows him by her ac-
eions that she is not the sort he
I'm booking for. Men respect a girl
<Eho behaves herself and will not
stnnoy her more than once"
Charges---and denialsl
An Investigator of social condi-
TIons, Miss stella Minor, prominent
IN the New York Probation and
Protective Association. was then
asked to give her opinion on the
subject.
Miss Minors Opinion.
1T is difficult to get data on
such matter" began Miss Minor
eft seems a hard thing to say, but
Fes'aureh'S' as ruiz "ie 'o'
%ooa places Tor Founs e',i9' -.
rev oi 'he E'.,s WIZ ,',',.
SViilV u""7r '"' ''''S
mattresses, though. Yet we have
saeeasiohal 'ohnp'aih's'
huV' hl"0'" some s"'s ~
nurses hoInes' Nv noSpl'''S 'l',' y"
the ho'uer c'aSs on YEA roo''ls Wi''' !,
Ahey VIII DE IN niEll-ol'sS su''ou"'
hnks' Know th'' slrIS say INV,
tneh IN 'ne ohe"per p'"eeS eNP'''
them TO be irleMily'
IN one case a glfl to'o me I'M
Nheo she ASK" TOT .he Jo' lu'
VnanaSer sNd III rep'y 20 her C@oll @
ptalnt that the pay was 100 niue
that she would nave ilhe oppu'-