London, Oct. 8.
The commonest of our, trite exclamations, I suppose, is, "How time Ries!" It'is hard to believe that Prince Edward will be three tonivtrow, when his father and mother femme back from Balmoral to help him celebrate and to present him with his Arst motor-car, a small-scale mode: et the real thing, in which he Will be able to drive himself about the garden. of Coppins, the Duke's country home in" Buckinghamshire, But is it really four years since the world stood still to watch the marriage of the Duke of Kent and Princess Marina? What an amazing reclama (vulgarly, boom) that marriage had, 'And apropos, in spite of poets the young man's fancy seems to tum even more towards thoughts of love fu autumn than in spring. A perfect deluge of engagements is announced in Society, over 70 this week, and in most of them the marriage' is to be before Christmas, ieniete ce ate see hee aero' air cal Sie one amic joree ato Seric, haaurs i tan [es 2 sheer ces et earn Lee ace ete fee Re Mee Women as Hotel Guests The annual conference at Southport. of the Hotels and Restaurants Asso ation deserves at least as much. aspect as those of the learned world, mich receive so much awed atten-ton, Among the speakers is a Miss Barbara Courts, still in the early twenties, who runs a country hotel in Worcestershire. She has been lolling her colleagues what women really want in a hotel, not elaborate meals but daintiness and absolute spollessness, and some flowers on the table, but they must be fresh. She! also said that most women' were more worried over a piece of ult a bedroom than a burglar. Yet, or all Miss Coutts's insistance on women's wants, it is always for men that manageresses do their best work. I should not like to stay in a hotel exclusively run for women, judging by the average woman's club. It 18. extraordinary how sloppy they ar and the servants so casual and off-
Replying {0 Miss Courts one of the men offered a number of "Don'ts" for women in restaurants—don't think your Fido so lovely that everyone will like to have him in the restaur-fant, dogs should be left outside; }don't take up one extra chair for your fur wrap and another for your bag; don't expect always to be served by your favourite waiter. He said that the secret of feeding women was. to fuss over them; that was why'
art were so much more successful foreign walters who understood the than English. Shall we plead guilty? It must be confessed that many men seem to leave all their manners (if not their Fidos) outside the restaurant, Last came M, Andre Simon, president of the Wine and Food Society, who deplored the declining habit of drinking wine, without which, he said, civilization was unthinkable: One answer is the expensiveness of all wines now; another, that wine-drinking is the recreation of a leisured age, and we live in such an eternal rush from one thing to another (for what reason oF result Heaven knows) that we have no time for the mediative arts, But this ig a matter mainly for men. Women do not really care much. [sbout wine, No one ever heard of '2 woman wine connoisseur. I won der how Miss Barbara Courts manages about the wine list in her hotel. But perhaps among all the Worcesters hire orchards, they only drink elder and perry.
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