Show rann dom reads by HOWARD L RANN TABLE nr table chote dinner Is a suc JL method of saving money at the expense of tho the appetite the regulation table chote dinner consists of three courses with one guess the patron la Is allowed to look at a long serpentine bill of fare willell seems ems to present untold possibilities for 50 60 cents but after reading it ill all the way through and deciding to order everything in sight lie he stumbles onto ento a few lines of brusque fine print I 1 which eliminates everything but the roast beet beef and iced tea this c explains x why so many patrons rise up from a table chote dinner wearing a i wan and crestfallen 00 oo the table chote dinner was invented for the benefit of people who art arr never hungry when it Is their turn r I 1 D ONT EE K 0 W TH affa A I 1 F 0 C let y TO zt CE L aa A long bill of fare which seems to present untold possibilities for 50 cents to buy it Is favored by hotels and restaurants resin because it lias has been demonstrated that almost everybody chooses the wrong meat or vegetables and Is stricken with a total paralysis of the appetite it Is estimated that the american hotel makes more money off the table chote victim than it does off the six by nine sample room with a north pole temperature tho the main idea back of the table d inner dinner however Is to drive the P patrons into the open jaws of the a la a carte service this Is a merciless system by which two strips of bacon and a plate of buttered toast are made to cost more than a weeks board at the home of an esteemed relative it requires more fortitude to sit down and look into the threatening countenance of an a la carte menu menn without quailing qu ailing than it does to wear the legless union suit all winter the table chote dirmer dinner Is doubtless all ri right lit for city folk foik but out in the country where people know how to live it will never be adopted as a substitute for food copyright |