Women in Restaurants.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 245, 10 March 1888, Page 5

Women in Restaurants.

Women are nob epicures, and no amount of opportunity civilises the palates of most of them. They like good things, but they never, ai a rule, get over a boarding-school girl fondness for fearful compounds. But I am going to stick it in simply because it is the Lord's truth they never are so bad as men when men are cannibals There isn't a woman in Red Dog, Aiirona, that would go to a restaurant and deliberately chooses to breakfa&b off mince-pie anil ice- water, which is the never-to-be-forgotten deed I once saw a man do. Women are womanish about ordering. That ought to be added to those lists that are always being published of the things they can't do because " they are not built that way." Yesterday I li&tened to this typical conversation : " 4t Now, what shall we have V " 0, I don't care ; you outer.' " Yes ; but I don't know what you like." " I like anything you like." "Well, you'll tell me the real tmly truth when I ask yon, won't you V" " 0, yes, indeed ; but you'll order what) you like and not think about me, won't you, darling?" " W— , ye—: I suppose we might find something we both like." "That's just the idea."' (Chorus.) " Something we both like." " Well, now, what shall it be?'' " You say first." " No, you ; it's your lunch." " Yes, but you are a guest." " So I am ; well "—then an awful pause, in which she gathers hertelt together for the plunge—" well, let's have— oysters !" Of course this was the beginning, but 1 spare you the discussion on the way they were to be cooked. Then came the awful problem of something else. Bound and round the question they went, until one of them happened as she moved her tireless little forefinger up and down the bill of fare to discover the quail here was only 50 cents. "Why, it's' sixty at So-and-So's, isn't it?" "Yes, indeed," said the other. " We ought to have some while we are here, oughtn't we?" " Yes, indeed ; we don't know when we'll be here again." As though they had previously been discussing sweets as a conclusion to their spread they laboriously stuffed themselves with quail because ifc was 10 cents cheaper there than somewhere else. Who says that women are not. economical ?