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Boston's Working Girls' Club

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
November
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

The snccess in Boston of the Longfellow Noonday Rest, established last Jannary, is of a nature to encourage its duplication in other places. The Rest is in the busy part of the city and was opened for the exclusive use of women employed in its vicinity. There is a suuny, cheerful loungiug room, with easy chairs and comfortable sofas, and workbaskets and magazines strewed on tables invite a member to the stitch iu time or the peep into literatnre in the leisure ruoments of her noon hour. The payment of 10 cents a week entitles one to the privileges of the Rest, not the least of which is the opportunity to enjoy at moderate price the excellent food served, froin the well ordered kitchen, which is a chief feature of the Rest. Great.care is taken to serve the food in tempting fashion. A specimen bill of fare, with prices, includes lamb broth, 8 cents; tomato soup, 6; pickled lamb's tongue and lettnce, 10; beef hash, 10; mashed potatoes, 5; scalloped tomatoes, 8; health bread, 8; white bread, 3; graham bread, 3; floating island, 8; orange cake, 5; apple pie, 5; baked apples, 8; cocoa, o; milk, 3; coffee, 4; tea, 3. Variety Í6 given to the bill of fare from day to day. Those who wish it may order a regular course dinner, for which they are charged 25 cents. -

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News