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24 - Wednesday, ‘September 4, 1985 - North Shore News

Who is seating whom

DEAR MISS MANNERS -—.
When I go to a restaurant
with.a gentleman friend and
we are escorted to the table
by a hostess instead of the

maitre d', when she pulls out -

a chair.and stands behind it,
is she seating me or in-
dicating that my friend
should seat me in the op-
posite chair?

GENTLE READER — We ©

are trying very hard to rid
ourselves of --meaningless

gender distinctions in the
working world,

and Miss

" Manners would appreciate it

if you would help.”
It: was once. believed ‘that
formal table service required

“that. men do ‘the job, while

less formal service cou!d be
done’ by women. What that
meant, of course, was that

- women ‘could’ only get the

lower-paying jobs.
~;"*Hostess”’ is a silly job ti-

tle; but’ then’ so is ‘‘maitre-

d’.”" A restaurant captain of

any. kind ‘who pulls “out a
: chair for.you means for you"
it in it :

An alert person | might
wonder why, then, the chair
is pulled out for the lady.

The answer is that in social:

life, the anachronistic but
charming system of ladies
first still prevails.

DEAR MISS MANNERS —
I have a three-year-old
daughter who is solidly
built—in the 75th percentile
for height and 90th for weight.
She likes to eat. My son was
this way and is now quite slim,
so I assume she will slim
down too. Of course we

know I want the teasing to
stop.

GENTLE READER —
“We're delighted she’s so
healthy, but of course there
is always a problem with
people who try to make a
child iike that self-
conscious.’’ Promise that
you will say this with a
smile, indicating that of
course you don’t believe the
people you are addressing
mean to do any such thing.

DEAK MISS MANNERS —

miss manners

by Judith Martin

watch the diet of the entire
family.

My problem is that there
are people who tease her
about. being chubby. I can-
not abide this, as I was teas-
ed for it as a child. (No one
ever teased my son.) ©

As her mother, I'd like to
find a correct way of saying
something that lets folks

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Have you a better way to
handle this wretched situa-
tion?

GENTLE READER — Woe
are you, indeed. However,
you do not have an etiquette
problem. One says nothing
on such occasions, because
there is a sensible social con-
spiracy to deny that anything
happened.

The danger of doing
otherwise is illustrated in a
story about Queen
Elizabeth’s apologizing,
while reviewing troops on
horseback with another chief
of state, for her horse's hav-
ing made such a _ noise.
Allegedly, her host brushed
off; the apelogy, adding
graciously that. had she not
mentioned it, he would have
thought it was the horse.

Miss Manners does not
vouch for the veracity of this
story. (It appears in. ‘‘The
Book of Royal Lists’’. by
Craig Brown and Lesley
Cunliffe.) But she does
vouch for the etiquette point
it makes.

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