Evening star., 1925-01-30
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Miss Nuna will give you a bright
smile If you come in with your wife,
but nary ghost of smile if you are
by yourself.
Score one for Miss Nuna,
She presides over a lunchroom in
the downtown section. located on as
busy a street as dear old Washington
knows; "a gay and happy street
where life flows along to the accom-
paniment of women's laughter.
This is the street of silks and
satins. of fappers and old ladies, d
street OF absurd contrasts. delicious
incongFu!ties, a thoroughfare dedi-
Gated to happy business and busy
happiness.
The place where Miss Nuna works
is not large. Her precinct occupies
the latter half OF the shop, given
over to small tables and chairs lined
against mirror -paneled walls.
These mirrors have reflected the
youth and beauty of the National
Cap tai, in their time. There is not
a suspicion of a crack in them. either,
SO one may know that the ladies who
frequent this place are not at all
hard to look at.
Nor is this place given over TO
frivolity, as a chance observer might
think, II he went no further than the
Slue"dIk- Usually .nali- -uoZen
much dressed young men are park I'd
out there, as a sort of guard of
honor in their own opinion.
"A nuisance is the des sgnation
given them by the police sergeant on
the block
The so-called sheiks. however, hav-
ing put all their money on their
backs, have none left with which to
enter the sacred precincts where
abides Miss Nuna, witn,h her dark eyes,
and her smile half way between that
OF the Mona Lisa and dream girl.
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Miss Nuna is slender and moves
among her tables with q gliding motion
that reminds one of a swan waving
through the waters of d quiet lake
secure and Carcfreo. sure of its right
to be there, and somehow certain that
no steamer will chug up the limpid
waters
This darkeyed swan Is beloved by
the little mattresses who hail her as
Boss You can sense ii in the very
accents of their speech as they ask her,
Miss Nuna, shall take this ORDER"
Miss Nuna has bobbed hair, there
fore all her satellites have bobbed hair.
She Is demure, quiet, efficient, there
fore all her Mattresses are demure,
quiet and efficient
Only the fact that they wear a sort
OF uniform keeps them from imita ting
their tremendously effective chief in
the matter of dress, For Miss Nuns
displays 'the most impeccabie taste in
her garment. which is always the same,
A dark dress made upon the 'boyish''
last which is particularly becoming to
Miss Nuna
She knows it. of course How could
she help realizing it. with so many mir
rors around? But tie looking glasses
do not distract her from her plain
duty. which is making all the customers
feel at home. and seeing to il that
they are waited upon quickly and prop
erly by the small mattresses.
This duty she performs with just the
right amount. Of attention. It is a
pleasure to watch her Those who
think-and there are such-that no
store in Washington has employees that
care rap about their customers, ought
to come to this place for lunch some
time.
They will be most agreeably surprised,
nay. delighted. and it will be all due
to the chiefs handling. backed up by
the courtesy of the little mattresses.
although the food served is most ex-
cellent and reasonably priced, too.
The way Miss Nuna goes into action
is worth coming miles to see. She does
il with a deftness that is art. giving
the performance an artistic finish that