CAFETERIAS ARE
NOW PROVIDED
AT FACTORIES
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 27 (by Associ
ated Press).—The dinner pail is pass
ing from the mills and factories of
the Pittsburgh district. Restaurants
and cafeterias are taking its place in
the more important plants because ex
ecutives are beginning to realize that
a hot, palatable meal makes the work
man more contented and more valu
able than the cold, indigestible food
packed away in a tin bucket.
In the Homestead mills of the Car
negie Steel Company, in Munhall, a
few miles from Pittsburgh, more than
eleven thousand men are fed in the
cafeterias every day, and the number
is constantly growing. At the plant
of the Westinghouse Electric and
Manufacturing Company, in East Pitts
burgh, also a suburb, 1,200 employes
get their food in the company restau
rant, and a new dining hall and mod
ern kitchen is being erected. When
it is completed the company will be
able to feet 3,000 of its workers at one
time.
The American Sheet and Tin Plate
Company has twenty-two cafeterias in
daily operation in its different plants.
Tt was one of the pioneers in the
movement.
In the Munhall works cooked meats
and vegetables are kept hot on steam
tables and served as the men desire,
or as the various shifts reach their
lunch or dinner hour. Pies, cakes and
coffee, in fact many desserts of which
the workmen seem very fond, are also
available at all hours, as Avell as tea
and milk. The men can thus buy a
hot meal for 25 to 35 cents.
“Our employes are delighted Avith
the meals served in the plant.” said a
woman representative of the Westing
house company who is in close contact
with the work. “They get better food
for less money than they get at home,
and they get it Avhen they need it. We
lose money by the arrangement, be
cause we provide food at actual cost
and giA'e aAvay the coffee, tea and milk.
But it pays in the long run, for it
satisfies everybody.”
These Avorkers’ dining rooms, it
was explained by one company super
intendent, must not be confused Avith
the dining rooms A\-hich have long
been in service for office forces and
officials of manufacturing concerns.
“Providing warm food for the ‘Avhite
collar* men was a luxury the shop
men never expected to attain,” he
said. “But now we are giving all our
men who wrant it Avarm meals, and Ave
are glad to do it. This plant will
never go back to the dinner bucket
system.”
GENERAL MOVEMENT
TO DISPLACE JAZZ
STEP AT ALL DANCES
NEW YORK, Jan. 27 (by Associated
Press).—Old-fashioned, keep-your-dis
tance dances are to displace the mod
ern jazz steps, if the nation-wide re
form movement undertaken by the
American National Association of Mas
ters of Dancing proves successful.
The dancing masters, it is announced
here, count'upon the support of moth
ers, fathers, daughters, sons, dance
jhall proprietors, dancing teachers and
hostesses—and if necessary the police
department—to exterminate the “half
Nelson,” “body hold,” “shimmy lock”
and other imported ball room grips
which are practiced by some dancers.
Cheap and vulgar music is also to
'come under the ban and, according to
•a circular just issued by the associa
tion, those in charge of community or
public dances are urged to show their
opposition to undesirable dances by
distributing “You will please leave the
hall” cards to those who persist in
offending.
WALLA WALLA WANTS
VARSITY BASKETBALL
TEAM TO PLAY THERE
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WALLA WALLA, Wash., Jan. 27 (by
Associated Press).—Whitman’s bas
ketball team has asked the University
of California team to stop here while
en route to Spokane this spring and
play one or two games.
The Californians are to meet Wash
ington'State College at Spokane.
Delicious mince pie at the City
Bakery. *3*tf
Forest pilot^"n^'fcajr,ckm i) ThtTlIiTl
in tlie darkness. Near its foot stood
the old Dingly mansion, to which the
family returned each summer, sojourn
ing there until fall.
The Dingly name was one known in
financial circles. Jim Forest was not
surprised that the financier himself
found pleasure in the relaxation of
country hills. Forest counted upon the
light from the windows of the man
sion to show him liis way. He was
driving, at this late hour, to the iso
lated home of a client who felt called
upon hurriedly to make his will. But
as Forest slowly approached, the
great house lay in darkness, the fam
ily evidently having departed for the
city earlier than usual. Well, there
was nothing for it but to try the turn
to the right, with headlights on, which
the lawyer proceeded to do. No sooner
had the brilliancy streamed out before
him than he drew back astonished.
At the entrance to the mansion, in
the silence of this midnight hour,
alone and waving toward him desper
ately, stood a slight girlish figure. He
noted her broad black hat, and soft
black fur which seemed to frame her
face and bring out its wistful beauty.
“Will you please,” she called, ‘‘give
me a lift?”
Forest stopped the car. The girl im
mediately sprang into it, hugging in
her arms a small bag.
"You do not ask my destination,” he
said. “I am traveling down an unfre
quented way.
The girl nodded.
‘‘But you will have to go back to the
city,” she said.
"I may be detained,” he warned her.
His passenger settled hack with a
sigh.
“Then I’ll just have to wait for you,”
she said. “It’s my only hope of get
ting to the city tonight.”
“And it is necessary that you re
turn?”
She motioned toward the desolate
house.
“One couldn’t stay there,” she re
sponded.
Forest bent toward her, earnestly
searching the sweet, upraised face.
“One might* wonder at your being
there alone at this hour,” he sug
gested.”
“And one might expli.ln,” the girl re
plied, “that coming from the city un
expectedly on the trolley, one was dls
ajfpointed in finding the family away
from home. One's only hope of return
ing to shelter being dependent upon
some generous driver.”
“You might.” Forest said, “he some
witch of the night, bringing me under
your spell.”
“And you might,” she retorted, “be
a daring highwayman, intent upon
stealing my purse.”
He wrapped the rug about the girl
when he went into the home of his
client, and it was with strange reluc
tance that he left hex*. His errand oc
cupying more than an hour he
hastened, after its accomplishment,
back to his waiting car.
The girl had completely disap
peared. A thorough search failed to
reveal her presence anywhere. Slow
ly, ever hopelessly searching, Forest
drove his way cityward. But when he
reached his apartment sleep was im
possible.
Anxiously, eagerly, thought of the
witching girl possessed him. Why had
she come to him? Where had she
gone?
Weary-eyed, he opened next morn
ing his paper, breakfast untasted be
fore him. In glaring headlines a sen
tence caught his eye:
“KniPl-fl Id npplrlapo ctnlan #i»a»vx
Dingly country residence while family
spend evening in city.”
Jim Forest turned cold. So he had
been the dupe to assist in the get
away. Not for a moment, remember
ing that appealing face, did he blame
the girl. She must in some way have
been imposed upon by the real culprit.
Perhaps she had tried, in invading his
car, to elude her persecutors., only to
be discovered' during his absence in his
client’s home.
Tlie heretofore calm heart of James
Forest contracted' painfully. Upper
most in his conflicting emotions was a
determination to protect this little un
known girl. ITe reached for the tele
phone and' called the house of Dingly.
“As to the necklace? Oh, yes! They
were sorry that they bad been so hasty
in notifying the poi'iee. Isobel, their
only daughter, being in the city upon
a visit, had decided’ to hurry out to
her home to procure the necklace to
wear at an evening affair. She had her
own key a^d was surprised at the ab
sence of her family. Awaiting their
return until late in the evening, she
had at last despaired of It. and sought
assistance from a passing autoist, who
drove her to a certain house where he
was detained. A second chance driver
took her in his ear, carrying her back
' to the city. From her friend's home
she called her mother on the phone,
telling of her hapless evening’s errand,
this information coming too late to
prevent the papers’ startling publica
tion.”
“Where,” interrupted Forest, eager
ly, “may I find Miss Dingly?”
So it happened, in the morning sun
shine, that two drove together down a
hilly road.
“You were not a highwayman,” Miss
Dingly conceded, “or you would have
captured the necklace in my bag.”
“You were a witch-girl,” Forest in
sisted. He smiled with'serious eyes.
“For vou have me—under your spell.”
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