RESTAURANT MANNERS.
The increase of cigarette smoking among English women (according to an English paper) is very marked of recent years, leading to a change of smoking-room regulations in London restaurants. Ten years ago smoking was not allowed in t-lie -dining-room before half-past 8 p.m., but now everybody smokes “all over tho place,” said a fashionable restaurateur. AY-lien cigars are sent up for the men, cigarettes are sent up for tlie women as amatter of course. One only, among cafes, forbids ladies to smoko in the public rooms. Offenders'are very politely given to understand that the other customers object. An exception is made in the case of ladies dining or lunching alone. If a solitary woman “lights up.” a- watchful waiter begs her to desist. But it is exceptional for women to go either singly or in t-wos or threes to smart -restaurants without- a male escort. Ladies unaccompanied by such are often requested to leave. xVll these little awkwardnesses must bo smoothed over as gently as possible, but- the waiter is an expert, and that is whit he is paid for.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2141, 17 March 1908, Page 1
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182RESTAURANT MANNERS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2141, 17 March 1908, Page 1
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