Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-10-01

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Florida, Orange county, N, ". Sept
25. AS soon as one gets back to town,
realizes exactly how shabby ones |
establishment looks, how many Of ones
gowns need more than the average |
Fixing over" then some pcryerse
sprite pops up and says: How are
you going to entertain your friends this |
winterg'' In the good old days that |
have gone by one entertained ones
friend Just as the fancy took her,
Some dropped in, had bite OF
luncheon with you, shared your after
noon tea, or appeared informally with
the dessert after dinner, announcing
that they had come for socinl game
of cards. We have changed all that
And | don't think We have changed 1T
for the better. Nowadays, one has to
make up ones mind, which ia always
an effort, whether one is going TO stay
in certain day every week, or whether
one is going TO have two or three, four
or six, eight or ten, special days which
will wipe out the whole visiting list
and be over with ii. That's a beauti-
full spirit OF hospitality! To want to
wine out all OF one's friends and be
done with them.
There never was woman yet who
set special day to be at home who
didn't long to go out on that very day
She either gets an invitation TO lunch
with a friend, somebody she really
wants to see, there's matinee she
would like to go to, or else there is
that special bit of shopping that can
be done better on that particular day
than on any other. If the aforesaid
general woman ia conscientious, sticks
to her word as if Ii were bond given
to the ancient Shylock, then, as GER
tain as fate nobody dros in that day.
III she throws her conscience to the
winds, Soaps her finger at her bond,
she hears, when she comes home, that
the Milionaires the Dashes, and the
Critics, ell called, and her maid tells
of hearing Mrs, Critic say, as she went
down the hall:
For my part, when people take the
trouble TO call upon people who live
in fiat which has no elevator and t.
come on the very Jay that one is asked
to, it's as little rs the fiat people car
do to be at home. !"
This usually finishes up the average
woman. She calls her castaway con
science, sticks TO her bond, but neve
has the pleasure OF seeing the Mil
lionaires, the Dashes, or the Critic
again that season.
1t was social somebody who sal
that afternoon tea WIS q sort OF a gam
in which the cleyerness Of hostes
was pitted against the cleverness c
the guests. That is to say the visitor
60 hopihg to meet other pleasan
people, The hostess realizes that q
her pleasant people must not be pei
mitted to flock together, but must /
carefully mixed with the stupi
element, so that they may go ava
and say what good time they hat
what delightful house that was
visit at, what charming hostess Mr.
Cynic is, and what clever people yo
do meet at her teas! After living
life in which afternoon teas hi
played conspicuous part, l shou
like to say TO her who is as yet your
in the game, don't drink it, unless W
are very well acquainted with II
establishment in which it is brewe
There are two ways Of making afte
noon tea.
BY the bye, do you remember th
Colley Cinher said that no wom
knew how to make tea unless he b
taught her? Colley Cibber never car
to America. The usual way OF maxi
tea is this You buy tea which yo
grocer assures you is put up especia
for afternoon use: it is in love
Japanese paper, bright of color, a
having mysterious looking charactt
in gilt upon if, which the grocer
direct descendant of Apanias and Sa
phira, assures you ia the Japanese
truly good ten but if you can re
Japanese you'll! discover that it i
prediction of what will come to al
body who is foolish enough to dri
the rOnCoction made from these Ieav
Fortunately, the broken nerves u
would reault if this tea were tai
strong do not aiilict you since aft
noon tea is 4 beverage to which
word strength is never applied,
Having your tea you engage "
good. looking sister, or cousin,
friend, 10 make it for you. The t
proper, or la proper, has been duml
into q silver cadly, which has
cover; now, il that tea had ever 7
sessed an aroma, it would have gi
{. it forth to the air by being 80 la
taken caro- OF. But it had nuthins
lose In addition, there is tea
with M alcohol lamp under it; W
the water is lukewarm, the 20
woman who has been throwing tea
the teHspoonful into the teapot, laI
on six teaspoupfuls of tea, two gu
of tepid water, and during the at
noon SIG IbHllS llb put d DNliDe
times without adding any more
and never, in the beginning, does
trouble herself as TO any advantag
be derived from boiling water.
lea doesn't poison you, doesn't al
you in any way, but, it is not tea,
it's shame to give such miser
mixture such good name.
The versatility Of the girl who sc
the tea is charming. She will ask
if you will have Russian tea, ant
you say ''yes, - she will pour,
the same teapot, light-colored
into champagne glass, then she
add slice of lemon, ard this nj
it Russian. The same tea put
cup With sugar and cream added
comes English breakfast, 'and l
no doubt if you asked her for the
that was used in tho land of the
night Sun it would be produced
the same teapot and served either
whisky glass or in soda tumI
To her way of thinking it lie the Gu
glass that differantiates. There is
house that pridos itself on the sire
of its tea. Drink anything but tt
this house. 1t is a mixture of
strongest black and the strongest G
tea that can be gotten. A {
quantity is put in the teapot. BIO
water is added, and il you receive