The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-13
MUSLIN BAGS OF TEA.
Row the Guests Carried Them OFF
as Souvenirs.
(Copvrioht.)

NEW YoRK, Sept. IA friend of mine
called upon Mrs Cleveland the other day
in her somewhat lonely sotreaU ON Buzz
Yards bay. She tells me that the little lady
never looked lower than in Mother Hub
bard wrapper. They have a 100-acre farm
on Monument Neck, and a quaint house
Of many gables. that resembles an old
colonial mansion. It's windows overlook
the water in three directions. The hall was
altered to Mrs. Cleveland's taste, and an
immense stone fireplace and chimney put
in. The ex-President fishes little now and
then, but he is at home with his wife most
of the time. They have had very little
company the past summer, and are as
spaony as two young lovers. They say
that Mr.. Cleveland does not make a
lovely figure in his sea clothes Mrs. Joseph
\ jefferson recently remarked that one mus6
love HIM very much to embrace him i'll his
fishing rig.
Were you in Saratoga the day of the big
reception in the Pompeian villa on South
Broadway
If you were you must have been amused
TO see the people carry away the little mus
lin bags of tea, supposing they were sou-
venlers of the occasion. 1t was just too
funny.
The tea had been tied up in little bags by
the servants which were placed ia piles
alongside of each tea urn. The idea was to
take one of the bags of tea for each guest,
slip it in one of the little perforated silver
balls which lay upon the table, and then
drop one in each of the egg-snell tea-cups.
While the water was bubbling in the tea
urn, it was 10 be poured into the cup and
then, when the little silver ball had been
shaken by its chain for the space Of Just
half minute, it was to be withdrawn. and
the result would be nice, fresh cup of tea
for each guest.
Now what do you think happened? Half
OF the guests had never seen the little per-
forated silver tea balls. More than half of
them had never seen the tea tied up in bags
before and placed in the balls. And not one
in ten who had ever heard of the method
OF tea making knew enough to recognize it
when they saw il. Result: They didn't
know what the little brown bags were for
Nowadays every sort OK a function must
be graced and identified by souvenirs OF
the occasion. The guests happening along
and drifting toward the tea urn were
attracted by the little brown muslin bags,
and surprising them TO be the looked for
souvenirs, took possession Of them calmly
and openly as If they were accustomed to
being presented with such things every
day.
After time the number of tea bags be-
came So diminished that Mrs. Frederick
Nathan and Miss F0lger. who were dis
pensinR the grateful cups of tea, we're
obliged to send out to the kitchen for more
Of them. The punch and lemonade worked
more successfully, because, after all, there
Is only one way of ladling punch and one
way of dipping out lemonade. Let the
process by which they are made be ever 50
intricate, it, is not possible TO confuse
guests by any mysterious shaking OF lemons
over the bowl or waving OF rum bottles
near the punch.
Modjeska made herself so popular with
the people of Cape May that when she
offered to preside at flower booth at a
charity entertainment the summer guests
at Cape May fockei around and bought
every flower before the evening had fairly
begun. Modjeska's charming manner. her
bewitching accent and her pretty way
Of doing things so delighted everybody
present. that she could have sold ten times
the number of bouquets if she had had them
to sell.
The idea of selling flowers at q charity
fair was not new one to the society bellies,
but with the quick thought which always
characterizes them, when they have a
chance to make themselves more popular,
they hit at once upon an idea for looking
pretty and raising money for sweet charity
at the same time.
Immediately when the news of Modieska's
successful evening sped TO the different
summer resorts the young women fell to
work to get up similar charitable enter
tainmenta Selling flowers was no novel
idea, but they thought Of something else
which was
All the small boys Of the neighborhood
were seat out TO scour the fields and the
meadows in search Of the pretiiest wild