Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 253, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1910 — MIXING ART AND VEGETABLES [ARTICLE]

MIXING ART AND VEGETABLES

Room In Swell London Restaurant Set Apart for Bervlng Vegetarians —Wines on Bill. London.—The modest vegetarian, or the modester still fruitarian, or anybody else who wants art as well as food at dinner time, will rejoice to know that at last a restaurant is to be opened “where every prospect pleases, and only man is vile.” The name of the Criterion has hitherto been associated in the minds of most people with choice grills, dainty hors d’oeuvres, and tender joints. But a sanctuary is being prepared in the west room of the restaurant, and there nothing so coarse as meat will be allowed to penetrate. It is to be a temple of fruit and vegetables. The man who lives on nuts and cabbage Will be able to order a lunch at the Criterion In future without encountering the pitying smile of a gentleman with a large steak in front of him. There will be no juicy chops to make the fruitarian shudder. Instead the vlßltor will revel In cucumbers stuffed with mushrooms, Koptlpa seethed in cream, artichokes pdwdered with rich grated cheese and Mi the other dainties dear to the vegetarian Lucullus. There will be wines. It remains to be seen whether anything so vulgar as beer will be admitted into the temple of artistic dining. But the idea Is to be carried further than this. Not only will every entree be a poem, every savory a symmetrical wonder; every waitress will be a priestess of art. clad in a princess

robe of the most delicate shade of mauve. The black dress and white cuffs, which are Been at places where men go merely to feed, will never mar the artistic harmonies of the new home of lunches de luxe.