{"id":1652,"date":"2014-11-06T10:16:12","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T16:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historyapolis.com\/?p=1652"},"modified":"2024-01-10T13:43:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T19:43:34","slug":"electoral-politics-dog-la-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/2014\/11\/06\/electoral-politics-dog-la-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s activism and “dog a la mode”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Published November 6, 2014 by Kirsten Delegard<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Electoral politics can be frustrating. But every campaign season also provides a reminder of how voting is a sacred trust, secured through long struggle and great sacrifice. In Minneapolis, the women who were part of the 72-year struggle for female suffrage clearly gave up some of the critical comforts of life for the cause, as this hand-written menu shows.<\/p>\n

Should a suffragette find herself downtown in 1911 and in need of nourishment after a morning of committee meetings, she could dine at the Suffragette Lunch Room, which was likely located in suffrage headquarters in the Essex Building. At a time when respectable women had few places they could lunch without a male escort, the Suffragette Lunch Room made it possible for middle-class women to remain downtown for a full day of activism. Without keeling over from hunger. And without being condemned as jezebels (or at least not for their lunch choices).<\/p>\n

This menu makes it clear that these committed women did not take time away from their activism for the preparation of food. The fare at this pop-up restaurant was spartan. Diners could feast on potato salad and “dog- a la mode” (which I take to mean sausage instead of canine). They could dress their “dog” with beans, chili sauce, ketch-up and pickles. Buns and “sinkers” were listed separately. To wash it down, the women could choose either ice water (listed twice) or a demi-tasse of tea.<\/p>\n

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Lunchroom habitues were admonished with two other reminders:<\/p>\n

“No intoxicated persons admitted.”<\/p>\n

And, finally: “Watch your hat and coat.”<\/p>\n

This menu is from the collection of the Hennepin History Museum. My thanks to Susan Larson-Fleming for drawing it to my attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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