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Show BACKS TELL CHARACTER. Temperament of Men at Lunch Counter Coun-ter Told in Their Attitudes. You can tell them by their backs the men who have no happy homes, or have left them to eat in chophouses. There are all kinds of backs In a row at a lunch counter when the rush In on and .they show all kinds of character and temperament and all stages of tlie lunch counter habit. The man whose back Is ti round hump Is un old stager In the place. He drops into a seat without looking around and without any attempt to preserve the human form divine In any of its proper dignity. Naturally, his head drops down near the counter. Just over the place where his plate will be. He gives his ordcr without any more than a glance -at-the list of delicacies hung on the wall. Ten to one he has a favorite dish nnd the waiter doesn't need more than a murmur from him to know what he wants. ; This man never seems to be In a hurry. hur-ry. He may not have much time to spare, but he knows that he cannot save time by sitting bolt upright In the chair and looking nervously at the waiters after the manner of the man who only occasionally takes his meals in a chophouse. The man whose back is Just as straight in the chophouse chair as It Is on, the street is either bubbling over with energy, or, less often. Is built that way. He is generally not a fat man nor inclined to be at all stout, and It Is easy lo guess why. Next to backs, the most interesting thing in the ordinary chophouse Is the names tho waiters have for the different differ-ent dishes. They aro far and away a greater mystery than the tales the backs tell. Among them Is, "Side o' horse, to come a-running." It la believed be-lieved to have some connection with a roast beef sandwich, with horseradish, but no one has yet volunteered a convincing con-vincing explanation. Chicago Tribune. |