The Archive · 1939

Ready To Start Again

Having lunched for beauty, delicately, the renourished woman is ready once more for her onslaught on Fifth Avenue, to peer, somewhat enviously, at the furniture and furnishings; the beautiful silver on an antique refectory table, the pair of outsize green grasshoppers which adorn a breakfast table set with cream linen printed with large yellow flowers, and service plates to match.

If looking at dining-rooms and breakfast-rooms makes you hungry, there are scores of cafes to tempt you through the revolving doors or under the striped awnings. Some of the cafes are in the' open air behind shrubbery growing in painted tubs; coffee in the "sunshine while you watch the world go by, or coffee in the dusky twilight while the setting sun throws into bold relief the Man-hatton skyline; either tastes twice as good "because it is being taken on Fifth Avenue.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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