The homeless man is as casual in his eating as he is in his work. He usually gives all the restaurants a trial. If he has any money when meal time comes he generally does a little “window shopping.” He meanders up and down the street reading the bills of fare in the windows. The Hobohemian restaurants know this and accordingly use window displays to attract the roaming patron. Food is placed in the windows, cooking is done within sight of the street, but the chief means of attraction are the menus chalked on the windows. The whole window is sometimes lettered up with special entrées of the day. Some of these bills of fare are interesting. Gus’s place on South Halsted Street near the Academy Theater, July 28, 1922, displayed the following: Pig’s Snouts and Cabbage or Kraut 15c Corn Beef Hash 10c Hamburger Roast 10c Liver and Onions 15c Hungarian Goulash 20c Pig’s Shank and Cabbage 15c Spare Ribs and Cabbage 20c Pig’s Feet and Potato Salad 15c Beef Stew and Kraut 15c Sausage and Mashed Potatoes 15c Roast Beef 20c Roast Pork 25c T-Bone Steak 30c The same day the James Restaurant on Madison Street near Desplaines advertised the following under the caption, “A Full Meal for Ten Cents”: Veal Loaf 10c Sardines and Potato Salad 10c Hamburger and One Egg 10c Baked Beans 10c Liver and Onions 10c Corn Beef Plain 10c Macaroni Italian 10c Three Eggs any Style 15c Kidney Stew 10c Sausage and Mashed Potatoes 10c Brown Hash and One Egg 10c Liver and Brown Gravy 10c Salt Pork Plain 10c Salmon and Potato Salad 10c Corn Flakes and Milk 5c Four Eggs any Style 20c One eating-house on West Madison Street is “The Home Restaurant, Meals Fifteen Cents and Up.” This is a popular appeal. Restaurants frequently advertise “Home Cooking,” “Home Made Bread,” “Home Made Coffee,” “Doughnuts Like Mother Used to Make.” [Illustration: A DINING-ROOM ON THE “MAIN STEM”] [Illustration: EMPLOYMENT BUREAUS OFFER OPPORTUNITY FOR TRAVEL]