Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-09-11
A BABYL0NIAN TEA.
NOVEL METHOD OF SPENDING A
SUMNER EVENING IN TOWN.

SUMNER EVENING IN TOWN.
Interesting Story Told by Youthful Limb
of Fashion-How a Philadelphia Hostess
Filled Her Guests with Amazement and
Delight.
A suave youth, of small fortune, but large
social pretensons, who is kept in town by his
duties as a bank clerk-$15a a week-was
trihe mystified few days ago by the receipt
from a fashionable married woman of
visiting card, on which was written, Friday |
evening, to 10, Tea Babylonian."
Tea Babylonianl Tea Babylonianl" he |
read again and again What new wrinkle |
may that be, | wonder"
1t required about four seconds for him to |
see that his engagement book was virgin |
He made up his mind to go in space of time
so small that be had no method of calculat-
ing. For, remember you, diversions that
promise anything worth speaking of to a
city bound swell do not come every day in
August.
The next morning, warm as it was, the
youthful limb of fashion was swinging down
Chestnut street to his desk in the banking
house as clipper boy with a new watch.
well" said |, why so bhthesome this
morning."
at was the tea, the Babylonian tea said
he. Il tell you it was stunner.n
'And what is a Babylonian tear
He was so full of it that he must have re-
garded the opportunity to talk as favor.
This is the story he told:
.sUboy I rocoivad tho bid ba axrloipoa
81 had no more notion than the dead what
Babylonian tea might be- However, as you
see, went The house-a charming one in
| a fashionable streets the scene of many a
| pleasant dinner and dance in the winter, at
| which one is sure to meet a lot of agreeable
| people. | had read in the sassiety' column
of a newspaper that the host and hostess
were in town for few days on their way
from some Virginia springs to Bar Harbor
Il was not at all surprised, therefore, to
| find the front stoop swept and trim as be-
| came the habitation of a Christian even in
midsummer, nor was amazed to observe the
door standing Hospitality open. There was
| something not quite ineligible, however, in
the circumstance that the only light to be
observed was furnished by single gas jet in
| the hallway. A man servant, however,
standing near the doorway mechanically
drawled ont. sGentlemen's dressing room
third story back; ladies' front parlor-' As
| stumbled mn the stairs tbrourh semi dark
ness | saw that the door In the drawing
room was omen and planriny in Observed
what anneared to he women,s wraps ON the
chairs and sofas which however were coy-
erred with white linen as when the bouse was
first put in summer order.
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tbis is the Rabvloni.n tea 7 chant want
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called babyionlan, OF course, for a reaso
that is clear to you with your recollection {
the celebrated hanging gardens. The roc
nm which We stood was that of the hac
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poi,sh4 s than tho 80 M =. I've I'VE
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Sods' ooraerea Id lohs s.alIo" BOXES, heaoi
concealed by the green. The palms and ferr
and other exoties were of course in tubs, a
from the stock of a florist. A servant ha
strung I'D the lamps, and a carpenter, witt
out much ado had mt nm tho balpstraf
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AGAINST tiie posslolhty oi ahypouys steppil
or the roof and tuihoiing INTO tine back var
las our hostess finished her little story SO