Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1912 — USES CHILDREN AS RUSE TO GET BEST OF MEALS [ARTICLE]

USES CHILDREN AS RUSE TO GET BEST OF MEALS

Clever Paris Woman Has Novel Scheme to Beat Restaurants. PARIS, (Special)—Dressed in the height of fashion, a woman here has been in the habit of eating in the most expensive restaurants. She enters the place accompanied by a little girl. After eating bountifully of the choicest things on the bill of fare, she gets up and tells the" child to wait for her a moment, she is going to buy her some candy. The woman waits to say this until a waiter is near. She Is permitted to go out without question or suspicion. But" when after an hour is gone and the child still waits, the restaurant people grow uneasy. “Isn’t your mamma coming back” the waiter asks cautiously. “Oh, she isn’t my mamma,” the child replies. Questioned, the child has invariably told the same, or rather the children, for .it is a different child every time. She has simply met the woman in the street, never having seen her before. By the promise of bonbons the child is induced, to accompany the woman to the restaurant And there you are.