LUNCH ETIQUETTE

Hokitika Guardian, 19 July 1929, Page 6

LUNCH ETIQUETTE

AIR COOK IN SHIRT SLEEVES. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, July 18. Sitting in his shirt sleeves, in his office in Russell Square, after lunch Mr A. J. Cook, the Miners’ Secretary, told the world why he had gone without lunch. Being a hot day, he had left his jacket in the office and walked in his shirt sleeves. In a Southampton Row restaurant, a waitress took his order, namely a cup of tea, eggs and potatoes, and presently up came the manageress saying he could not he served in his shift sleeves. He said: “It is very strange that ladies are allowed to eat with hare arms.” 'ihe manageress replied: ‘ 1 My instructions are not to serve a man in his shirt sleeves.” He said: “ If I cannot have lunch in niv shirt sleeves 1 shan’t have any at all.” “Accordingly,” said Air Cook, “I got up and walked out.” lie considers it silly and absurd in this hot weather that a man cannot sit in a restaurant in his shirt sleeves: He had eaten in shirt sieves in a big hotel on the Continent, and also at Liverpool and Glasgow. “ One night we dined with the Alayor of Blackpool in our shirt sleeves.” He is dispensing with lunch because lie is so disguested. \