REFUSED LUNCH

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 19 July 1929, Page 5

REFUSED LUNCH

iri HIS SHIRT SLEEVES BRITISH MINI-US' SECRETARY. RESTAURANT ETIQUETTE (9tklla4 Praia AasouiaUon--By Elootrio Teiegrapfc-Oopyrisat) (Australian Press Association) (Recoived 19th July, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON 18th July. _ Sittin'g in his shirt sleeves in his office in Russel Square after lunch, Mr Cook, the miners secretary, told tho world why he had gone without lunch. Being a hot day he had left his jacket in his office and walked in his shirt sleeves to a Southampton Row restaurant. A waitress took his order, namely, a cup of tea, eggs, and potatoes, and presently up came the manageress saying that he could not be served in his shirt sleeves. He said: "It is very strange that ladies are allowed to cat with bare arms." The manageress replied: "My instructions are not to serve a man in shirt sleeves." Mr Cook said : "If I can't have lunch in my shirt sleeves I shan't have any at all." Accordingly said, Mr Cook, "I got up and walked out." He 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 his shirt sleeves in a big; hotel on the Continent, and also in Liverpool and Glasgow. "One night w e dined with the Mayor of Blackpool in our shirt sleeves." He is dispensing with lunch because he is so disgusted.