The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-04-02
Special 'Eatings'
Prepared for Men
At Central Hiesr

Perhaps man teachers have rnbr,
peculiar eating habits than mon NJ
other professions. At hest, they ara
peculiar. and at any rate, thcy must
be humorcd.
Such IL tho conclusion OF tho in.
nOCent bystaudcr after having stood
around awhile IN tho high school
cafeteria during lunch hour. over in
one corner OF tho huge room was
little three-sidcds counter fenced
In about n pillar that bore r1ste-
board platefuls Of buns, pickles and
--wienors. a tiny pot Of mustard
went with each collation.. This.
Miss Clara Kimbar. head OF the
home economies department Of tho
city schools said is for the benefit
OF the men teachers.
ut isn't" she said. "elthcr Miss
picrcc's or my idea. 10 is Just 20
give the men what they want.
Wicnersl Not anything oven Aio
artstoCratic az hamburNers"
The rest OF the school -- pupils
and women teachers -- skirted tho
| little private wiener booth and nat.
ronized the steam counters. There
were two OF these counters-Eroai.
| long affairs, each OF them stretch.
| ing across n side OF the immense
room. A constant stream of youth
filed by them, filling their trays
with the generous enthusiasm that
IL youths. There were tall boys and
short boys, spectacled boys and rat
! boys nnd slim boys, bobbed haired
girls and smooth-halrod girls and
pretty girls and plain girls -- hun
dreds and hundreds OF them, armed
to tho teeth with sandwiches and
soup and milk and ice cream and
| chocolate bars with peanuts IN them.
| There was one short counter piled
! high with sandwiches-three or four
| kinds. two for a nickel Everybody
who ate sandwiches took two. n lot
took three or four. Perhaps they
supplemented their sandwiches with
milk or salad, perhaps they dog,
| Those who had trays spent on hh
average OF 20 cents-milk. salmon
and rice, soup and a dessert. was n
/ fair sample OF what the trays held.
Everything is n nickel.
Above all was the cheerful and
constant chatter OF many feminine
and masculine voices, the sound OF
1 laughter and the clatter OF dishes
n joyful bedlam. Behind the coun-
| ters. servers worked steadily. The
women are employed by the school,
the girls and boys are students who
earn their lunches by such service.
/ There are 80 OF them who help every
noon. and they make each week "a
| little over the price OF their lunches
They are paid in money, and then
| buy their own lunches, instead or
being paid merely in lunches.
An average OF 1900 people nre
| fed every noon in Central high
/ school cafeteria, which is run under
the direct supervision II Miss Helen
| Pierce. The lunch hour is divided
into three periods and in this way
all the students and teachers can be
cared for. AS Miss Kimball said, all
OF the students couldn't sit down at
once. II they wanted TO. 80 It may
be Just as well that n lot OF the
sandwich eaters prefer 10 take their
refreshment into the hall and stand
there in gay groups while they eat.
The teachers generally have n table
or so that is by taclt consent re-
served for their own use.
The cafeteria makes II possible for
some OF the teachers who have an
ambition TO keep their expenses
down TO n dollar a day 10 do so.
| This Is made possible by reason or
the fact that breakfast IS served
there. Behind one OF the counters
Is huge chest with glass doors; IN
| this ARE kept the breakfast things.
/ Approximately forty OF the teachers
eat breakfast at the school. One OF
| them. discussing what might be
called her food budget" said that
she generally spent 10 cents for
breakfast, 20 cents or sometimes "a
cents for lunch, which left her the
| so cents that dinner at her board
ing house cost her. with a little over.
Were II not for the cafeteria, dol
lar a day for food expenditure
would, she felt. be an impossibility.
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