The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-28

NEW YORK, Feb. 28.-The trans gressor's way is hard Such has often been preached and generally is cred ited There are stumbling blocks also in the path of the non-transgressor.
 The dizzy district, or "Roarin' Fort ies',' offer many places to eat. The question is how to eat without drink ing. Some New York restaurateurs will not concede that a patron may be hungry and not thirsty. Two newspapermen meet to eat They could not possibly be mistaken for affluent visitors looking for hilar' ity, or tired business men, or-heaven forbid-Broadwayites.
 'T want a steak with peppers" one announces
 q know the best place in town to get it." says the other. That is, this place was highly recommended to me by somebody or other, I forget who. Just leave it to the head waiter, he said"
 It's around the corner of Broadway and Thirty-some-od. The place is at tractive. The table is quiet. The head waiter is summoned and is told that friend said that the steak and peppers there were the best in the city.
 The head waiter smiles and in quires: "Who recommended us please?"
 "Thompson of the World" is as easy an answer as any.
 In a moment the proprietor saun- ters up. The pre-meal talk is halted when he asks: "What sort of looking fellow is this Thompson?"
 "What Thompson"
 "Thompson of the World, who sent you here"
 "Oh Thompson! Well, sort of med ium height, medium build, with kind of brown hair and medium eyes," is the answer, designed to avoid any con. troversy over an entirely fictitious character.
 The proprietor turns to the head waiter
 "These boys are all right" is his yer dict. In this tacit language he makes clear what had not been thought of be fore, so help me, that with the food may be ordered anything from old style lager to the newest mode in gin Again. after a table d'hote, it is suggested that the waiter bring coffee in tall glasses, as at an adjoining table.
 "You have eaten here before?" ht prompts, with uplifting eyebrows.
 "No," is the frank answer.
 'I will tell the proprietor that vol have dined here with friends and tha you got it then" is his diplomatic idea And who would stay him? Or wht would suspect that cognac went witt the coffee? Who, indeed?
 Of course when an inquiry is di rected for worthwhile place to eat somewhere downtown, the New York CT may be pardoned for believing tha the questioner is looking for "infor mation.' So he brings out a card ant with it gives the instructions: eff yo, have any trouble at this place jus mention my name. The food isn't st good, but you can get anything yo, want there, Scotch or anything" Whether or not cafe owners be lleve it, the question of thirst is not always paramount. As in the old fable, "You've got to eat sometime!' But toward the purely hungry these cafe men seem to have adopted a skeptical attitude. They say, without putting it in words: "Why didn't you stay at the boarding house, or go to the Automat?"
 We offer this suggestion to Izzy Einstein, the versatile dry agent, who now bobs up as an itinerant musician, now as a snow shoveler, now as a peddler, but always as dry agent, that if he wants a disguise that will open all cafe cellars to him, just let him go out looking hungry.
 But if you've seen lazy, or his pie tures-and who hasn't-youIl know Not by fifty pounds.