Resthrant

"'Twud be a return to Jacksonyan simplicity, an' 'twud be a gr-reat thing f'r th' resthrant business." ❋ Finley Peter Dunne (1901)

They'd been there befure an 'dhriven th' Demon Rum fr'm th 'resthrant into a lair in th' comity room. ❋ Finley Peter Dunne (1901)

Is th 'Constitution anny safer to-night because ye have to have ye'er leg amputated to get ye'er boot off, or because Joyce has made ye'er face look like th' back dure-step iv a German resthrant? ❋ Finley Peter Dunne (1901)

A corryspondint iv th '_Daily Saky_, who wurruks in an old porcylain facthry in Maine, writes that this famous subjick iv th' Mickydoo, whose name has escaped him but who had a good job in a livery stable in Tokyo befure he was sint on a mission to th 'American people to see what he cud get, wint into an all night resthrant an' demanded his threaty rights, which ar-re that th 'waiter was to tuck his napkin into his collar an' th 'bartinder must play "Nippon th' gloryous "on a mouth organ. ❋ Finley Peter Dunne (1901)

a resthrant or theaytre or dhrygoods store'd put in an adver-tisemint f'r fear th 'subscribers'd see it an' come ar-round. ❋ Finley Peter Dunne (1901)