Show the gall abbery 1 J fl I 1 s 0 fr I 1 I 1 IEL the comical male customers are given to bantering conversation with the waitress LEAVE IT TO THE SISTERS by GEORGE ADE N FLORIDA what they call a dinner IN de at a night blooming noise factory may biln bring you a check tor for 5 anything around 55 5 Is a bargain price for the hurry up repast served with dancing by the customers and cavorting cuales in a floor conr show shiow two hits bits for the food and for the smote smoke and the elbowing and the alcoholic vapors it may surprise the spenders who frequent these nocturnal resorts to learn that a good dinner or supper Is worth at the market just 33 35 cents that Is the top that is the stabilized price decreed by custom and honored by long practice it Is not preceded pr seceded by cocktails or washed down with that very expensive fluid known as giggle water it Is served by a friendly waitress who expects no tip the women of the small towns have learned the secret of making money by serving food for practically nothing they cannot raise their prices bebau because se the traffic bear the increase oyster suppers used to come its as low as 25 cents a head in tile the good old days but now the patrons patrona demand courses arid and are critical of the till bill of f fare are and take a lot of waiting on all for 35 cents women are the mortgage lifters for churches clubs and all kinds kind of local and helping liand hand organizations they have more enthusiasm than the men and their teamwork team work Is better what Is more they get a lot of fun out of mobilizing in a buzzing flock to assemble their contributions and spread the tables sirs mrs A Is a natural born cake maker so she brings two calies cakes one enriched enri clied with figs and the other stuffed with hickory lIc kory nuts such cakes are practically unobtainable in the city and are priceless samples of home coolen cooing but just the same they go into the 9 35 cen cent jackpot mrs D B Is a sensational biscuit maker with a good degree of local renown her job is to provide the light and flurry fluffy rolls ties sirs C Is the local queen in the domain of trini trimmings such as cottage cheese grape jelly and straw strather her ry preserves she rolls robs lier her own shelves in order to make maize the party a success site she hns has to he be a liberal contributor in order to keep up tip with ith the others and head off any sly suggestion that she has it a strain of stepmother in her sirs mrs D Is the prize coffee maker sirs mrs K E Is tile supreme authority auth arity on chicken and noodles the F girls know how low to get floral decorations for tile t table able mrs G has had long experience in bossing waitresses mrs 11 II Is a demon pie maker the supper represents an assern assembling of units turned out old by exports experts and the finished product lays over what bat you get at filling stations aud and lunch counters it you have haiie a great crowd of people to feed the best thing you can do Is to make a deal with will tile the sisters they will bring an army of waitresses who would cost more if you hired them the total bill turned in by tile lady manager the girls of all ages love the flutter and hopping about and genial hub bub hub bub of an indoor celebration tion and walting waiting on the table when it Is s done as a labor of love becomes tin an venture adventure and a gay experience the comical male customers are given to bantering conversation filth ith the waitress known by her first name and she must talk back and be sure ot of many a hearty guffaw because everything Is at high tension and any kind of wise crack Is a welcome relief and sure surefire fire hit after it Is all over the girls eirls count up what they have taken in and put it in the treasury as velvet its a good tiling thing they dont cha charge r e for their time and the physical toll and the nervous energy out at my place in the country we have han some big parties mostly for city visitors they want fried chicken you cannot provide springers with art an unlimited number of at t 35 cents a plate for the chicken and noodles or roast fowl ford you can work in the venerable liens but you cannot cheat on the fried variety the local sisters whooped the fried chicken rate to fio 50 cents years ago then slid it up to 75 cents and later on finding that the city trade was big bighearted be hearted arted made it a dollar a head bead with a hundred motorists on a reliability run all arriving at one time the sisters began to handle important money on the day of the noonday feed for the GlIdde rl tour outfit the receipts were MO w which III ell represented tile the high mark much of this amount was contributed by the motorists who insisted that the dinner was worth more than a dollar after many years experience with city visitors and nume numerous rou conferences alth tile the women providers I 1 think I 1 have discovered the menu which will always make a lilt with the consumers the grand motif or theme song of 0 the production Is fried chicken taken entirely apart and served hot and moistly tender no armor plate mashed hashed potatoes or new spuds with their jackets on hand in ban hand with oodles and oodles coolies and oodles of giblet gravy small light if ht fluffy rolls no sody body biscuit cu I 1 L for the second vegetable corn on tile the cob or fresh garden peas or tender juvenile string beans depending on the season fresh beets always in demand overlooked by most caterers cateress cater ers fresh fees leaf lettuce wilted with hot bacon juice and a little vinegar those addicted to this old fashioned salad simply rave about it IL for dessert ice fee cream and cake or pie a la a mode cherry pie always makes a ten strike that chator or punkin punk ln with a top story 0 of whipped will aped cream it Is surprising how many people will take hot coffee it if it la Is offered to them please mease take note that the preliminary fruit cocktail Is omitted the visitors want to fly at their fried chicken as soon its as tile the bell rings tills this menu bordered with some jells and preserves may be repeated over and over and always goes big go right hack back to the old surefire sure fire items and stick to th them em they cannot be served as a 35 cent plate luncheon but they are what the visitors take tf if they can get them the sisters know how to fix thern them up when people peoli e come to the country they want home ho me cooking and plenty of it regardless or of hard times and depression the meals may be frugal when company Is absent but the sisters never hold out on a bunch of enthusiastic thusia eaters certain undertakings undertaking 1 such as the feeding of a multitude 1 of cannot annot be stage managed by I 1 the h e m men e n the women tile the ring leaders in putting are over ambitious plans we have h hopped ranny many a social barrier since main street accepted as the real picture was of a country 1 town every village la Is now the suburb of a metropolis and enjoys at all the privileges of big town except except the noise and the dust the radio the moving picture and the high motor powered car have ma made de slain main street tall end of a boulevard the it has chan changed ged a lot since 0 every vill villager a er was r das classed as a sed slave y yoke and his wife ife was a household tills this Is an essay about the town woman small site she downtrodden down trodden home way may have been a old body in if the le good days PU but t now she Is a and a mixer ali r she Is all hooked g gadabout in movements ivernen ts and up with bei beirnes beir ailes ces in going belongs place places to cl clubs abs and things thing she has and heeln seeing opinions believe everything and t she hears radio on the the ancient couplet ran man works irom from but wor woman rians work gun aun to tun nun la III dev never er don it Is my illy candid belief back into after moving a rural are the self starters community that women 0 |