DON'T BE LATE.
Hospitality, it is said, is the virtue of savage gations, and unpunctuality is certainly one the vices of civilised countries. The quarter of an hour, nearly always a dreary time, is made often a mauvais demiheure by some unpunctual one, who makes his fellow-guests wretched, his hostess miserable, irritates the cook, and spoils tho dinner. Politeness seals the lips of the hostess, and the unpunctual one, sinning thus with impunity, is still later at his next engagement. A remedy has, however, been discovered, and gentle pressure is put on in his "Don't be Late" note paper and envelopes/'brought out by Mr Sulman, of 63 and 64 Milton street, London. The arms, to speak heraldically, are the old willow-pattern plate, the supporters a knife and fork, and the legend the warning note, " Don't be Late." Such a hint is impossible to mistake, for it shows unmistukeably that the dinner, like the express train, is, in American parlance, "On time."
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2954, 3 August 1878, Page 4
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161DON'T BE LATE. Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2954, 3 August 1878, Page 4
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