Cold veal (8 slices, charged at dinner.) Fried liver (10 cents.) Beefsteak (i pound flank, 13 cents.) Codfish in cream {5 cents.) Potatoes baked (3 cents.) Smearkase (No. 388— of 2 qts, milk, 8 cents.) French rolls (4^, 20 cents.) Cake (12 cents.) Butter (i lb. creamery, 25 cents.) Milk and cream, (22 cents.) Coffee, sugar, etc. do cents.) $1 30; 22 persons, 6 cents a plate. "Alter the Fourth," says the rcbuft proprietor, "we niust begin and get ready for the rush." "Will there be a rush?'-* "Oh, the people have to come some- time—they always do." "There has nobody come yet— seems to be getting late." "No, this isn't late, it is early. I never looked for anybody to come until after the Fourth." "No?" "They cannot; the schools don't close till now, the weather is cool at their homes all through June; the Govern- ment employes do not take their vaca- tion till now and so many people will not leave their homes for fear they may be burned up on ^the Fourth, or be en- tered by roughs." "And yet Black's Hotel over here, has had, so they say, ninety boarders for a week or two past." "Oh, well, the people he gets would not come here, anyway, and they that vviil come here would not go there. He lets them fiddle and dance all night if they wish to, and drink beer, and row boats and sail and fish on Sundays." "They would not stay here a minute" "I suppose not." "And still they pay Black about nine hundred dollars a week "Well, I don't expect this thing to make any money, but if it pays its own expenses and keeps me and my family pleasiantly I shall be satisfied." "I'm afraid your profits will never compare with Black's profits," "Well, well; we will be virtuous and we shall be happy." 529— Shall We "havT a Bill-of-Fare? The answer that was reached when this question vyas discussed at this place was, that a^ bill-of-fare is a luxury that shonld be indulged in if possible and that in this case it could be adopted for dinner and was necessary, but was not needed for breaskfast or supper to an ex- tent commensurate with the trouble of preparing it At the Pansyblossom House where I put in one summer they had never be- fore run a biil-of-fare but were quite de- lighted with the apparent ease, the neat- ness and economy of the bill-of-fare plan. I heard somebody saying, when the busy season was over, that the pro- prietor intended to run a bill all through the rest of the year after that "for then instead of setting out a lot of dishes to each person he would only have to give them what they called for. ' The sequel to that story I never knew, but feel sure the bill-of-fare was not kept up. It is harder for the cook and requires knowl- edge of tne names of dishes that poor Mary jane does not possess. Here at Uintah Lake it was allowed that it would be the stylish thing to have one. "But I don't see how we can" says the landlady. "Didn't you have a bill-of-fare last year?" "Why, no, of course not. The girls just called off what we had."

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Cold veal (8 slices, charged at dinner.) Fried liver (10 cents.) Beefsteak (i pound flank, 13 cents.) Codfish in cream {5 cents.) Potatoes baked (3 cents.) Smearkase (No. 388— of 2 qts, milk, 8 cents.) French rolls (4^, 20 cents.) Cake (12 cents.) Butter (i lb. creamery, 25 cents.) Milk and cream, (22 cents.) Coffee, sugar, etc. do cents.) $1 30; 22 persons, 6 cents a plate. "Alter the Fourth," says the robust proprietor, "we niust begin and get ready for the rush." "Will there be a rush?'-* "Oh, the people have to come sometime—they always do." "There has nobody come yet— seems to be getting late." "No, this isn't late, it is early. I never looked for anybody to come until after the Fourth." "No?" "They cannot; the schools don't close till now, the weather is cool at their homes all through June; the Government employes do not take their vacation till now and so many people will not leave their homes for fear they may be burned up on ^the Fourth, or be entered by roughs." "And yet Black's Hotel over here, has had, so they say, ninety boarders for a week or two past." "Oh, well, the people he gets would not come here, anyway, and they that vviil come here would not go there. He lets them fiddle and dance all night if they wish to, and drink beer, and row boats and sail and fish on Sundays." "They would not stay here a minute" "I suppose not." "And still they pay Black about nine hundred dollars a week "Well, I don't expect this thing to make any money, but if it pays its own expenses and keeps me and my family pleasiantly I shall be satisfied." "I'm afraid your profits will never compare with Black's profits," "Well, well; we will be virtuous and we shall be happy." 529— Shall We Have a Bill-of-Fare? The answer that was reached when this question vyas discussed at this place was, that a^ bill-of-fare is a luxury that should be indulged in if possible and that in this case it could be adopted for dinner and was necessary, but was not needed for breakfast or supper to an extent commensurate with the trouble of preparing it At the Pansyblossom House where I put in one summer they had never before run a biil-of-fare but were quite delighted with the apparent ease, the neatness and economy of the bill-of-fare plan. I heard somebody saying, when the busy season was over, that the proprietor intended to run a bill all through the rest of the year after that "for then instead of setting out a lot of dishes to each person he would only have to give them what they called for. ' The sequel to that story I never knew, but feel sure the bill-of-fare was not kept up. It is harder for the cook and requires knowledge of tne names of dishes that poor Mary jane does not possess. Here at Uintah Lake it was allowed that it would be the stylish thing to have one. "But I don't see how we can" says the landlady. "Didn't you have a bill-of-fare last year?" "Why, no, of course not. The girls just called off what we had."

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