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                        THE EXPERT WAITRESS

                         _A MANUAL FOR THE
                 PANTRY, KITCHEN, AND DINING-ROOM_

                                 BY
                      ANNE FRANCES SPRINGSTEED

                           [Illustration]

                              NEW YORK
                    HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS




               Copyright, 1894, by HARPER & BROTHERS.

                       _All rights reserved._




                                 TO

                         THE COLUMBIA CLUB

                                 OF

                           WORKING GIRLS

                          THIS LITTLE BOOK

                          Is Dedicated by

                             THE AUTHOR




                              PREFACE


The papers entitled “The Expert Waitress” are intended rather as a
working model than as a set of rules from which there is no appeal. It
is recognized that tastes and opinions vary as much as do the various
dining-rooms in which they are expressed. In writing these papers, one
idea has been kept in mind: No rule has been laid down that has not a
good reason for its existence.

Some things, desirable in themselves, have been omitted because they
are not possible to one pair of hands and feet, even when guided by a
well-regulated brain.




                              CONTENTS


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          BREAKFAST                                       1

          LUNCHE