Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-01-30
MONDAY.

MONDAY.
The Hooper children took their places
at the breakfast table on board the Pull
man, on which they had travelled since
midnight 1t promised to he the stran-
gest and most exciting meal they had
ever eaten in their lives. Going TO bed
on the train had been an adventure in
itself and Helen had slept little after
she had crept into the berth with her
mother and Betty. It had been a trif1e
crowded, but Mrs. Hooper had managed
without any great discomfort by tuck
Ing Betty into the foot Of the berth, while
Helen curled up next to the window and
she herself slept on the outside. She
did not feel any too certain, however.
that sudden whirl Of the train around
curve might not spill her out through
the curtains into the aisle, and Helen
was wide awake for hours. Roger had the
upper berth all TO himself, and he felt
as if his wonderful excursion into a new ,
life had actually begun, when he climbed
up the small ladder, held in place for
him by the negro porter, and crawled into
the little enclosure up under the roof of
the train where he was TO spend the first
night OF his travels.
The small dressing-room was crowded
when Mrs. Hooper entered 1t to dress,
after having left Helen and Betty 10 put
their clothes on in the berth. The women
cOmbing their hair and brushing their
teeth greeted her cordially as they made
room for her soap dish and travelling
case on the window SILL bat Mrs. Hooper
felt horribly hOmesick and wished with
all her heart that the journey was at an
end instead Of just beginning.
It seemed before they were already for
breakfast, Betty having created much ex-
element by losing her small shoe some
where in her bed and the porter and TO
be sunmonded ans the berth made up
before It was found. And now seated at
the carefully laid table with a white
coated colored waiter standing over her
to take her order. Mrs. Hooper felt as if
she had been suddenly transported to a
foreign land instead OF being only about .
three hundred miles from home She had
done very little travelling in her life and
had never been on train over night any
more than the children had. But she was
showing neither pleasure nor excitement
in the adventure. She could only wish it
to be over as quickly as possible
They were all very hungry, but when
Mrs. Hooper saw the price marked
against each article on the menu, hei
horror and establishment took away her
appetite. But not so with Roger and
Helen and Betty. They clamored for the
same amount of food TO which they were
accustomed at their own substantial
breakfast table. They didn't want any
thing unusual or fancy, but when they
had been provided with cereal, orange
juice. eggs and mullins and Mrs Hooper
had coffee and toast the bill together with
the tip which went TO the waiter was
three dollars and ten cents. Although tbs.
children were keen for another excursion
into the dining room when the porter
came through calling luncheon is served
Mrs. Hooper insisted that they have a
modest repaSt out Of the lunch box she
had brought from home Dinner in the
dining car in the evening for the four
of them with food that didn't begin TO
compare with her home table in quality
cost her four dollars and twenty-five
cents. Mrs. Hooper went TO bed wonder
ing II food was really so much more
expensive than she had dreamed H.
could be or if she just didn't know how
TO order
on THE TRAIN.
BREAKFAST
Cereal Orange Juice
Eggs Toast
LUNCH drought from home)
Grape Juice
Cold Sliced Meat
Bread and Butter
FRYE Cakes Chocolate Bars
DINNER Dining Carl
Roast Beet Mashed Potatoes
Dreamed Carrots
Ice Cream
(four pOrtions)