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...From the menus of some railroad dining cars and many a restaurant, beef several months ago made a silent but definite exit. From the tables of the poor, pork ("the poor man's food") has likewise long been absent. Reason for both these facts is, as every housewife knows, the current high price of meat. Last week choice steers were selling for $19.50 a cwt. in Chicago, highest price in 18 years, and angry housewives had to pay 47½?; a Ib. for sirloin which they could buy two years ago for 36? and which cost...
...want to go to commencements, to catch snakes, to make fireworks, to play with Erector Sets, to write plays, to do ballet dancing all over the house, to print menus in the living room, fine and dandy. Any of these things is much better than working. But before giving full sanction to this joyous, carefree mode of life, we must observe that it all rests on the money the Grandpa made before that one morning when he decided in the elevator going up to his office that he didn't want to may any more money, and turned around...
More serious matters were broached on the convention floor. Menus, it was declared, are becoming larger, less cluttered with items, often illustrated, because "what the eye sees the mind may want." Deploring "leakage at the bar," Restaurant Accountant James E. McNamara observed that '"in the first place it is easier to waste a liquid than a solid; in the second place there is much more temptation to employes in a bottle than in a box. . . ." Sales Manager A. A. Schipke of International Silver Co. besought the stewards to screen their garbage cans and buy genuine silver. "In Massachusetts," said...
...luncheon my official host took me to the house dining room. There were small tables and waitresses and not very good food. The houses all had the same menus on the same days and any member of a house could eat in any other house on signing an "interhouse" chit. In fact the whole system resembled an amalgamation of clubs rather than the strictly individualistic Cambridge colleges, which it might superficially seem to imitate. Indeed it was several times emphasized by Harvard dons in speeches during the celebrations that adaptation to modern ideas rather than imitation of the mediaevalism...
Lowell House waitresses were forced to over work yesterday noon, and the whole affair was due to the laxity of the proof-reader who goes over the daily House menus...