The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-01-11
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modated.
At one place luncheon is served
every day from I till 3, when engage
ments are arranged for that time. In
the spread are soda, ginger or lemon
biscuits, olives, cut cake, claret, sherry,
tea and coffee. The tea IS served in
the Russian style, but the fair creatures
prefer wine, because-to use their own
excuse-it is so much neater and so
much more convenient than coffee or
tea.
As for the hair dressers, manicures
and kindred beautifiers, who do a score
of things for physical culture, each and
every one has her closet or cooler where
a mug of ale or glass of wine may be
had for the asking.
The next best place for drink is at
the bath. For seyenty-hve cents one
can get boiled, steamed, stewed, baked
simmered to a state of delicious dizzi
ness. The fashionable hour for a steam
ing is noon. To get the full benefit of
the operation it is taken after two
meal fast, and through the skin the i'm
purlties Of the system are distracted.
The washing done with, the belle and
her matronesS are laid out side by side
in the toilet bureau and covered with a
satin comfortable, but before going to
sleep the mulatto girl, who wears roth
ing but couple of shell hairpins and a
white pinafore, brings in a caraffe claret
or Burgundy, a muffin and breast of
Bob White, after the consumption of
which the l. 2ooth of McAllister's set
pulls the swan's-down over her shoulder
and goes to sleep. AT 4 O'Clock Susan
comes in with their clothes and wraps
from the office vault to- waken them.
The Every best people in society" go
through this programme at least once
every week, and the wine is served just
as 1t would be in a cafe or Paris or
Marseilles.
Now for drawing room tipping, for
there are precious few salons along the
Hudson where wine is dispensed with.
Jennie June's Sunday evening, where
one is sure to meet a handful of lions
or lionesses, have lost none of their
popularity, and the wine is as sparkling
as it was twenty-five years ago. With
each new arrival a whlte-capped maid
enters the drawing room with tray of
tiny wine goblets filled to the brim, and
after her comes double bearing dish
OF cut cake, while brimming bowl of
punch is as much part of the recep-
tion-room furniture as the hydrangia
blossoms that decorate the fender.
Mrs. Frank Leslie's Thursday even
ings are famous, and so is her rum
punch, kept at high tide in suberb
bowl of carved silver.
| Mrs. Hicks-Lord has made areputa-
ton on her punch. She got the recipe
from some Russian prince Or court
part full in The 10. i to herself Xa1chsafing
rharf and thew ara - w Im ~. -. g. fashiona
qu,. of cordials. At her crush receIS
tions two winters ago the guests drank
1t by the gallon. and SO many men were
made silly and so many ladies bribed
the old wench, to let them ego up
STAIRS for moments rest'' in the guests
chamber that IN self-defense Mrs. Lord
made the announcement that no more
punch would be served in the hall. On
the old marquetry dresser she has
placed frappe service of cameo glass
and every Thursday the guests refresh
themselves with a mug of nice, cool
lime, minus the bouquet of liqueurs,
mint and wintergreen.
At Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt's recep-
tions her punch is ruby and dangerous,
which, doubtless, accounts for the mere
swallow that Buckingham dips up for
the guest.