COATLESS MR. COOK

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 253, 22 July 1929, Page 6

COATLESS MR. COOK

ASKED TO LEAVE RESTAURANT Australian Press Assn.—United Service. London, July 18. . Sitting in his shirt-sleeves in his office In Russell Square after the lunch hour, Mr. A. J. Cook, the miners’ secretary, told the world why he had gone InnchAs it was a hot day;' Mr. Coojc said he left bls jacket in the office and walked in his shirt-sleeves into the Southampton Restaurant The waitress took his order, namely, a cup of tea and eggs and potatoes. Presently up came the manageress, saying that he could not be served in shirt-sleeves. He said: “That is very strange when ladies are allowed td eatjn bare arms.’’ The manageress replied, “My instructions are not to serve a man in shirt sleeves.” . ‘ ’ He said: “If I can’t lunch in shirt sleeves I shan’t have any at all.” “Accordingly,” said Mr. 1 Cook, “I got up and walked out” He considers it silly arid absurd in this hot weather that a onan cannot sit in a restaurant in shirt-sleeves. : He had eaten in shirt-sleeves in a big hotel on the Continent, and also at Liverpool and Glasgow. “One night” he said, “we dined with the Mayor of Blackpool in shirt-sleeves.” Mr. Cook is dispensing with lunch, because he so disgusted. • • •

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