‘Express diet dilemma
before lunch, not after

DEAR MIss MANNERS —

pleaed io be’ able (0 com
tizue - Bim - soctally

after our” “professional
associa!

tion ended: I was so
delighted that he
remembered my special day
He mucha oughfal way.

loss, I will undoubtedly encounter
this situstiog sonia. Should [ bave

the gentleman ‘for the cost of my
meal? Would it be wise to simply
refese a fnture invitation if it in-

sible world, a gentleman would not
have noticed how much you ate,
because he would have been so ab-
sorbed in your company. Howev-
er, we live in a society that has
gone bonkers on the subject of

manners
_ Judith Martin

ron

ye’ ‘food.

An invitation to a touted restau-

His. ‘Yant must-therefore be treated as a

request.to participate in somecne’s
chobby.Had you been a non-skier
_invited to a ski weekend, you could

@ : have replied: “Actually, I'd love to
a ‘come for the- company, if you

that Iwas dieting. eda fice time.
and ‘sent 2 x him and -

‘don’t. mind my.curling up with a
book while the rest of you are out
-on, the.’ slopes. Or pérhaps we
“should get together on a different
-kind of occasion.” -- -
* ‘In the food-as-sport version, you

. could say, ‘‘I’d fove to try this, but

you. know.I eat very little,”” so that
- YOUr: ‘host could split a: special dish
ith ‘you, or.ask to. kave you given
‘taste of . something he thought
“you should try
None- of - this. should, be. inter-

2 preted to mean that he was right to

‘be miffed, or that politeness re-

- _ eS “you, toeat_more.than you

for. the rest ‘of. ray. life in order to

“eehnbeve and ‘maintain my weight

*'ghould have. It is just a precaution

. against making well-meaning peo-

. ple watch good food, which they

ordered for your pleasure, being
- thrown away. -

DEAR MISS MANNERS — I
am the most junicr professional,

and the only woman, in a small
goverment office. I have a close

“bat formal ‘working © ‘etationship
_ with, my immediate superior, a

- high-level government official. .
When I was ont of the office for

a mont’ with a new baby, my bess
very kindly brought bis ¢caughter
to vit me at bome. When the
baby cried to .be fed, however, I
faced the dilemma of whether to
breast-feed with my guests in at-
tendance, or leave them sitting
alone wkile.I retired to another
room. (My ‘husband was not at
home.)

I chose the former option, which
I attempted to execute discreetly.
My bess didn’t bat an eyelash and
his daughter hardly appeared
traumatized, but It was awkward

See Sreast-feeding
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