AS AUTOMATIC CAFE.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 180, 23 October 1903, Page 7

AS AUTOMATIC CAFE.

A Coin Dropped in tfae Slot Immediately Produces What One Degdvea to Bat aa4 Drink. An instantaneous and automatic cafe, in which speed and silence will be the chief features, is about to be opened in Philadelphia, eeys.the North. American. Anything from a sandwich to an oyster stew may be obtained by dropnins: the necessary com in a slot. Drinks and desserts will be produced in the same plan. The food will be displayed in tang 1 a;lass compartments. You sea what you want, and by dropping 1 a coin intO^ the aperture beside the desired dishand pulling 1 a lever the mechanism starts to work, and lets down a sandwich, a piece of pie, or whatever the order may call for. Ft- will be impossible- to cheat the machine; if the coin is not of the proper denomination, or false, it comes back to the customer th-rough, an. aperture below. * Under the coffee, tea, andchoeolato slots the same rule applies. The coin strikes a disc, which releases just enough liquid to fill a cup. The cupa are lined up on shelves, and eaoh customer helps himself. , There will be circular tables, with condiments, and brass chairs, for comfort. Of course, there will be many who will wish frizzled beef, fricassee chicken, baked beans, etc. and these instructions are posted for their benefit: On inserting 1 the coin and drawing the ring, a receiptdisc is delivered andf the order electrically communicated to the kitchen. The food is at once> freshly prepared, and will be delivered! on the insertion of the disc in the adjoining apparatus. Special attention will be paid to the ;-ilence feature. It may be that th<? fir>. prmcers, and plates will be fitted up with pneumatic tires to. prevent the continuous clatter. Customers will not be obliged V> gather up the dishes. There will bs men on hand for that purpose. Kis Mcriher Cut HJ« H-air. I knew a small boy in. a Ma rylaadl village, near the city, who belong* to a noting- mother. She kept him 1 in picture clothes till his spirit was broken, v.r.r] she made him wear long curls unrii he was asJmmed to be seen. Ev.&n when the boy's, father announced that the curls had to go, th-e tearful mo-tier couldn't bear to have a brutal barber '.Mich him. She cut his hair herself. The haivcut completed the work of wrecking the boy's manhood. When he slunk into Sunday school a. few weeks ago it happened that the }e»~rm. was about Samson. The teacher road the story of the treacherous woroa.n who cut the hair of the mightly iran. and how, when his enemies camo to take him he was- as gentle as a lannb in their hands. Young Robert Graham Ell more So-an-So listened attentively. "Now," said the teacher, 'Jpau any of you tell me why Samson did not try to <*et away from his enemies?" There w?s. a dead silence tijl the loTicr-nent-up bitterness of young "Robert Graham Ellmore So-and-So found exirprMon in E-p-ee-ch. ".f Vrnovr," he paid, "c was 'sharped to K?'r??ri because » woman cut hi'-^fir 'sfe-ad of a barber. . Ma out mine."' — Washington Post. . Proof en Tap. Clara-r-Was it a case 'of lbve on her part-, do you think? Maude-— lt certainly waa. Why. she cave up a position paying a s'lary of $15 a weeK to marry him ana-Tie is only geWing $10;--Chjcogro Dc£j Xews,