Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1913 — Notes and Comment [ARTICLE]

Notes and Comment

Of Interest to Women Readers

. BOSTON WOMEN WELL FED. Variety In Little Restaurants at the Hub not Matched In Gotham. .Bpstoiu seems to appreciate the needs of a woman’s stomach better than other cities. There a woman may eat better for less money, than In any other big city in the country, and she doesn’t have to go to a foreign restaurant to do it. While the same woman may sustain life decently in New York or Chicago if she doesn’t require continued variety, Boston gives more,. than that It Is a mistaken idea to assume that Boston breakfasts, lunches and dines on the bean. There are several dozen interesting places in the business district especially intended to attract a woman, and she may have a wide choice, although the dishes each day are not numerous. Seldom are two days duplicated in a month’s menus. The monotony of New York’s inexpensive restaurants is avoided, and as each of these little Boston restaurants seems to strive continually to make an Individuality of its own in the list of dishes, unless a woman really pines for sameness in her diet she isn’t compelled to submit to it So thoroughly is the attractiveness of some of these places understood that in a number of them are displayed signs, “These tables especially reserved for men,” and this too not in the shopping or stenographer district, but unclassified all day patronage. So many women decline to eat meat in these days or cut their allowance down that these places pay attention to the preparation of vegetables and made dishes, especially those including fish. While such women have to eat health food compositions in’New York or rarely get anything but white bread, wheat or a corn muffin more than half wheat flour, the Boston places pay special attention to variety in breads, and rye, whole wheat, graham, oatmeal and Indian corn muffins, gems, Sally Lunn and such things are npt only ordinary orders but are made so attractive one really wants to repeat them. Most of these lunch and tea rooms are inspired by American women who have had some scientific training and are blessed with enough business sense to make money out of it The places are necessarily tucked away up one or two flights, but the Boston patron of such a place seems to be assured that the more one labors in reaching it the more desirable it is likely to be. The Boston woman who doesn’t propose to spend much money on her food has become «o well trained that she can’t be fooled very long. When she goes to New York she is soon disenchanted, for even if dishes called by the same names are to be found in New York they are 5 or 10 cents higher a portion. Boston is developing in such eating an inexpensive, nutritious and attractive crulsine that is really American and not quite like anything else in the land.