Word: diner
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...menu card; (2) a small book of tickets be issued and charged to each member; (3) the price in tickets of the meat, fish and eggs ordered be given to the waiter with the verbal order. Menu cards would be furnished at breakfast and lunch as well as at diner...
...dinner-tables here in Cambridge are not mirrors of etiquette, - perhaps it's a pity they are not. We do not eat our meals with that "repose of manner" which characterizes a diner-out and benefits one's digestion, nor is our after-dinner conversation of that prudish kind which is heard in some circles of society. Still there are some suggestions, even in a book on the ceremonies of polite life, that are worth following, and one of these is the banishment of "shop" from table conversation...