Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 266, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1912 — Angry Cook Creates Havoc With Soup Dishes [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Angry Cook Creates Havoc With Soup Dishes

CHICAGO. —Unfortunately for the customers and waiters in B. Clay* ton’s restaurant, 446 North Clark street, the cook was not feeling well that night. The cook was Miss Emma Johnson and the night Monday. Something, as yet unrevealed, but hinted at as indigestion, had spoiled Miss Johnson’s temper in the afternoon, and by evening she was In such a rage that the waiters, accustomed to take a customer’s order with that superior air many waiters have, were subdued a,nd almost subservient in their attitude, even toward those who ordered “ham and.” Thing's went along smoothly for a time, considering Miss Johnson’s state of mind, because of the conciliatory attitude of the waiters toward her, until one disingenuously ventured to return to her a steak which had been criticised by a diner as ’’overdone.” Almost simultaneously dishes began to fly in the kitchen in such profusion that some hurtled through the door into the dining room. They were fol- - lowed by Miss Johnson, who, with an ■armful and selecting customers and praitera indiscriminately as targets, let

fly in every direction, and with vigor. Imagination, cannot picture the ensuing scene —overturned soup tureens, diners covered with gravy, others making for the door with spinach in their hair, others strangling on hot coffee suddenly swallowed as they received an unexpected blow on the chin from one of the pieces of Miss Johnson’s artillery—but why prolong the agony? That fellas Johnspn was fined ten dollars and costs by Municipal Judge Maxwell because of het temper may be some consolation „to the waiters, but it is understood that customers who since its display ’"have invested generously in digestion tablets continue unappeased. MUb Johnson'ls thirty-five years old