WOOED FOR PANCAKES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20917, 6 January 1930, Page 13

WOOED FOR PANCAKES.

CAFE COOK’S ROMANCE. When a pretty young cook in a Portsmouth restaurant tossed a pancake for a customer she did nto know that it was going to lead her to the altar as a rich man’s bride. The customer was Air Alfred Dyer, a wealthy Canadian lumber-jack, then on holiday in Portsmouth, revisiting the home of his parents which lie left 25 years ago to seek his fortune. Pancakes to Mr Dyer arc the gift of the gods—the world’s finest dish. And in the pretty young cook he discovered an artist at making them. For 10 days he visited" the restaurant every lunch time, and had his meal of pancakes. One day the cook happened to pass by his table. He congratulated'her on her skill. A week later he proposed marriage.

Miss Gladys Waller, the cook, afterwards told the story of her unusual romance. “Mr Dyer said that he bad never found anyone who could cook a pancake since his mother died,” she said. “ When ho asked me to marry him I asked for time to think it over. Now I have given him m.v naswer. We are going to be married in a month’s time, and then we arc going back to Canada.”