The morning news., 1894-10-21
TEA AND TIE DRAMA.
Bah on The Comfort Of the Grateful
Chinese Product

From Their Counterparts Of the Old
Drama!-A Matter Of Costuming.
New York City. oct. 1.-THE season has
come for the annual tea drinking. That
is good old-fa5hioned name. and it is
/ cne that our great grandmothers used
/ when they were served in the most dig
| nihed way With a dish of tea" There
is something curious about it. Nobody
can deny its being comforting, and no
body can deny, If one has had a good cup
OF tea, its ability to make one feel genial
and talkative. The average tea at an
aftef moon affair Is pink to look at,
Iu Ne-warm to touch and exceedingly weak
70 taste. The average hostess has to
4 guard the teapot a girl who don't know
how to make tea and who would rather
| fiirt than do it, and the consequence is
! she sends out a cup of tea that neither
cheers nor inebriates Sometimes she
! hopes to make the taste better by filing
| IL with Jumps of sugar, and then one
| can shut ones eyes and imagine that one
| is back in the nursery drinking "cambric
| tea"
The kind of tea people drink, I think,
| aIectS their dispositions. l never knew
woman devoted to black tea who wasn't
a little bit hard; NOR one devoted to green
VINO had not little malice in her; nor
one given over to mixed who did not
| wayer in her beliefs and never know how
to make up her mind. But the tea that
| keeps your nerves all right, and which
when properly made, is most delightful,
Is English Breakfast, and it is really what
! everybody ought to drink. Made poorly
| 1t tastes like weeds; but made properly.
" IS nectar How to make it? Well. you
want your kettle to boil to boil well;
| you want to be able to see the steam
| coming out from 1T, and then into your
teapot you want to drop a full teaspoon
OF tea Tor each guest, one for the teapot
one Tor good luck, and one for a compIl-
| ment, Then pour on the water, and you
VIII know the delight of having what
| Dean Swift called "a bowl Of tav" Tf
one DOESN'T wish to ruin ones digestion
| by taxing tea at the afternoon affairs
| one can at least play with the cup, look
at the teaspoons and hear all the chatter
| that goes on about At some houses they
serve at O'Clock with the tea, toasted
and buttered mullins, and I can assure
you that where this is done there is al
ways found number Of people to enioy
| them. or course, half past five finds them
! all gone and the late conner must be salts
fied with tea alone.
The other afternoon, over a good cup
| OF tea somebody was talking about the
| '0+AASeA "a bAAC SNdB6 anu dnOIner woman.
| VINO, Notwithstanding she earns her liv-
ing by her pen, has never lost her social
| position, told what she knew of them in
| regard TO politeness. She said: "It fro
| quently comes in my work to saw some
lhlhg ABOUT the theater and people on the
stage, ano, thinking 1t a courtesy, I in
| Varlabiy send them a marked COW of the
paper. 1t is funny to see how absoluteI,,
! rude some of them are, never acknowledg-
ing TINS and never seeming to recognize
the Kindness that is done them. I don. I
care because 1 get the money for nv
work JUST the same, but one would think
! that time would teach these peonIA +be
value of politeness. Henry Irving al
| ways writes note of thanks for a nIeas-
ant word said about him; Ellen Terry
| never.
At least, when I say never, know
mat my experience has been the same as
that OF a good MANY others among the
writer's. Mrs. Kendall aclznowledees a
KIND word at once, and invariably asks
| the woman who wrote It to c0rna ard
see her. Jane Hading sends a little mote
IN French, in which she speaks Of ber
liking for American women, diIates on
their cleverness and ends by savine, how
thankful she is for the comnIinen3 notS
her. Fanny Davenport, Georgia Caviar
Maude Adams, Johnstone Bennett. Rich.
ard Mansfield, Marie Jansen, Lilly Lang.
try, every one Of them are polite and rec.
| oshlze Poiltehess SHOWN to them. How
| about the rest? Well, I am afraid tbc
rest must be put on the other LIST A,
least, these are the women that I remem,
ber as polite"
Another woman spoke up and said
while we are talking about the stage, !
want to tell you something in regard n
MRS hendal. There is a woman here in
! New York who can do very little for her
except give her a good deal of affection
J Two years ago this woman was i'll. and
not i'll in romantic or pretty wav she
had horrible abscess in her ear I1,ery
/ day. no matter how busy she was, Mrs.
hendal came to see her, brought heI
some flowers to cheer her up, had some
bright words to say to her, and the day
was never too cold and she was never toe
tired not to remember the afflicted one
, and to do all she could for her. Now
that is what I call kindness"
A girl who had evidently had tko much
green tea, spoke up and said: II wonder
If that is true?" And quiet voice came
from the corner, saying. Il know that n
T | is true for l am that woman" Rve-tbe
3 bye, they say that this production OF
"Clancarty' that he Kendals are bringins
out is the finest production ever seen iT
r this country. l do not think il has heer
s played here since Langtry tried it. What
e charming play it is! Full of romance
q I full OF action, and all the time full n
= humanity. That is what we want in on,
\ ! plays nowadays. Unfortunately most ri
the people that the playwriter puts II
are puppets, and only once in a Will,
does he manage to make them seem reo I
Well. about Christmas we will see "Clan
carty," and then we can all say what w,
, think of it.
= Apropos OF stage people how the char
Q acters have changed. The adventures,
i, of the stage in times gone by invariably
showed her weakness by appearing in ,
= bright red silk frock, with gold lace. ant
q her hair most elaboA ately arranee,;
e Then, when she had managed to corn
= nit the awful deed which the red frocj
I seemed 10 lead her TO, she assumed ,
o black one, with white lace collars an,
u cuffs lowered her voice and looked lgr,
L saint But II is all different NoU sb,
e appears in yellow, and though she na,,
c little later In the play, put on pale hin,
trimmed with yellow roses; stiu. he
gowns all have a touch Of yellow abou
them. As soon as a woman comes ON 4,
/ yellow frock. you know right away sb,
IS going to make all the trouble. and tba
the play would be nothing without ber
= She invariably wears her frock cur Yer,
e low, and she takes off her gloves win
sort Of snaD.