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<\/center><\/p>\nFine living . . . a la carte?
\nCome to the Waldorf-Astoria! <\/p>\n
LISTEN HUNGRY ONES!
\nLook! See what Vanity Fair says about the
\nnew Waldorf-Astoria: <\/p>\n
“All the luxuries of private home. . . .”
\nNow, won’t that be charming when the last flop-house
\nhas turned you down this winter?
\nFurthermore:
\n“It is far beyond anything hitherto attempted in the hotel
\nworld. . . .” It cost twenty-eight million dollars. The fa-
\nmous Oscar Tschirky is in charge of banqueting.
\nAlexandre Gastaud is chef. It will be a distinguished
\nbackground for society.
\nSo when you’ve no place else to go, homeless and hungry
\nones, choose the Waldorf as a background for your rags–
\n(Or do you still consider the subway after midnight good
\nenough?)
\n
\nROOMERS
\nTake a room at the new Waldorf, you down-and-outers–
\nsleepers in charity’s flop-houses where God pulls a
\nlong face, and you have to pray to get a bed.
\nThey serve swell board at the Waldorf-Astoria. Look at the menu, will
\nyou: <\/p>\n
GUMBO CREOLE
\nCRABMEAT IN CASSOLETTE
\nBOILED BRISKET OF BEEF
\nSMALL ONIONS IN CREAM
\nWATERCRESS SALAD
\nPEACH MELBA <\/p>\n
Have luncheon there this afternoon, all you jobless.
\nWhy not?
\nDine with some of the men and women who got rich off of
\nyour labor, who clip coupons with clean white fingers
\nbecause your hands dug coal, drilled stone, sewed gar-
\nments, poured steel to let other people draw dividends
\nand live easy.
\n(Or haven’t you had enough yet of the soup-lines and the bit-
\nter bread of charity?)
\nWalk through Peacock Alley tonight before dinner, and get
\nwarm, anyway. You’ve got nothing else to do.<\/p>\n
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