MR. COOK IN SHIRT SLEEVES

Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1929, Page 13

MR. COOK IN SHIRT SLEEVES

REFUSED MEAL IN RESTAURANTS _______ 1 ■ •. ■'*’ GIVES UP LUNCH IN DISGUST. ' ’’ _• r. ' -■ . J • * By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. i London, July 18. Sitting in his shirt sleeves in hie offica in Russell Square after the lunch hour, Mr. A J. Cook, the miners’ secretary.told the world why he had gone without lunch. Being a hot (lay he had left his jacket in the office and walked in his shirt- , sleeves to a Southampton Row restaur- ' ant. A waitress took his order; namely "* a cup’ of tea, eggs and potatoes, and ; presently up came the manageress saying he could not be served in his shirtsleeves. Ho said: “It is very strange that ladies are allowed to eat with bare arms.” The manageress replied: “Aly ■instructions are not to serve a man in ; his shirt-sleeves.” 7 . . : lie said: “If I can’t have’lunch in my : shirt-sleeves, I shan't have any at all/’ “Accordingly,” said Air. 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-sieves., H® . had eaten in his shirt-sleeves in a big : hotel on the continent, also in Liverpool and Glasgow. “One night we dined with , (lie Mayor of Blackpool,” he added, “ia our shirt-sleeves." , ' • I He is dispensing with lunch, because . i he is so disgusted.