No Butter Served

Qnestioned about the nse of bread and butter platos, Sherry raised his luwd in significant protest. "Absolutely never! I do not own a butter píate. I never - this is irrevocable - serve butter at any diuner or supper which I stand sponsor for. Why shoold I? Everything is accompanied by its own sauce or relish, always sufficiently rich, and butter is as unnecessary as the traditional fifth cartwheel. It is never used at the private tables of those New York familie who live correctly. Occasionally I have a protest. I did not long ago, after a dinner on which I pride myself each year. One of the guests, a man, carne to me to give an order, saying at the same time that he had recently dined hero and was mnch disappointed. Of oourse I urged an explicit statement, and he finally told me that first there was no butter, to which I pleaded guilty, but explained that my rule in that