The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-27


Florida, Orange County, New York, Sept.
n, AS soon as one gets back to town,
.ooIizes exactly how shabby ones estab-
1,snr,ent looks, how many of ones gowns
ueed more than the average fixing over,
hon some perverse sprite pops up and
sovs. How are you going to entertain
,,our friends this winter?" In the good
Ia DAVIS that have gone by one enter
.oined ones friends just as the fancy took
nor Some dropped in, had bite of lunch
oon or appeared informally with the des-
cert after dinner, announcing that they
had come for a social game of cards. We
hove changed all that. And don't think
,,o have changed it for the better. Now
odavs one has to make up ones mind,
u,bich is always an effort whether one is
gong to stay in certain day every week,
or whether she is going to have two or
4bree four or six, eight or ten, special
DAVIS which will wipe out the whole
,is,tlng list and be over with it. That's
beautiful spirit of hospitality! To want
20 wine out all of ones friends and be
done with them.
There never was a woman yet who set
enecial day to be at home who didn't long
n 90 out on that very day. She either
Gets an invitation to lunch with friend,
somebody she really wants to see, there's
a matinee she would like to go to, or else
tnere is that special little bit of shopping
that can be done better on that particu-
lar day than on any other If the afore-
said general woman is conscientious,
sticks to her word as if it were bond
given TO the ancient Shylock, then, as GER
tain as fate. nobody drops in that day.
10 che throws her conscience to the winds,
snans her finger at her bono, she hearS,
when she comes home, that the Million
otres the Dashes and the Critics, all call
cd and her maid tells of hearing Mrs.
critic saw, as she went down the NAH:
"For nv part, when people take the
.,oubIa IN cali upon people who live in a
fat which has no elevator, and to come
on the very dav that one is asked to, it's as
little as the fat people can do to be at
home" . w.,
man She calls her castaway conscience,
sticks to her bond, but never mas the
Measure of seeing the Millionaries, the
DnGbpG the CIlIlCS again lAldlN SNosoSAA'
IT was a social somebody who said that
ofternoon tea was a sort of game in
which the cleverness of a hostess was pit
ted against the cleverness of the guests.
That is to say the visitors go hoping 10
meet other pleasanst people. The hostess
realizes that all her pleasant people must
not be permitted to flock together, put
must be carefully mixed with the stupid
element so that they may go away and
81 n ar
delightful house that was to visit at, what
a charming hostess Mrs. Cynic is, and
what clever people you do meet at her
teasl After living a life in which AFTER
noon teas has played conspicuous part,
l should like to say to her who is as yet
young in the game, don't drink it, unless
you are very we'll acquainted with the es-
tablishment in which it is brewed. There
are two ways of making afternoon tea.
BY the by. do you remember that Colley
Cibber said that no women knew how to
make tea unless he had taught her? Col
ley Cibber never came to America. The
usual way Of making tea Ks this: You buy
a tea which your grocer assures you Is put
up especially for Afternoon use; 1t is IN
lovely Japanese paper, bright of color, and
having mysterious looking characters in
gilt upon 1t, which the grocer, direct de-
scendant of Ananias and Sapphire, assures
you is the Japanese for truly good tea, but
If you can read japanese you'll discover
that It is production of what will come
TO anybody who is foolish enough to drink
the connection made from these leaves.
Fortunately, the broken nerves that would
reslit if this tea were taken strong do not
aflict you since afternoon tea is bever-
age to which the word Strength" is never
applied.
Having your tea you engage your good
looking sister, or cousin, or friend, to make
It for you. The tea, proper or improper,
has been dumped into a silver caddy,
which has no cover; now, If that tea had
ever possessed an aroma, it would have
given II forth to the air by being so badly
taken care of. But 1t had nothing to
lose In addition, there is a teapot with
an alcohol lamp under it; when the water
Is lukewarm, the young woman, who has
neen throwing tea by the teaspoonful in
TO the teapot, lands on six teaspoonfuls of
tea, two quarts of tepid water, and during
the afternoon she reflls the pot a number
OF times without adding any more tea,
and never in the beginning, does she
trouble herself as to any advantage to be
derived from boiling water. This tea
DOESN'T poison you, doesn't affect you in
any way, but it is not tea, and it's
shame to give such a miserable mixture
such good name
The versatility of the girl who serves
Il you will have Russian tea, and if you
say yes" she will pour, from the same
teapot light-colored fluid into cham
payne glass, then she will add a slice of
lemon, and this makes it Russian. The
same tea, nut in a cup with sugar and
cream added, becomes English break
Iast, and have no doubt If you ask her
Tor the kind that was used in the land
OF the Midnight Sun it would be produced
from the same teapot and served either in
d whisky glass or in a soda tumbler. To
ner way of thinking it is the cup or glass
that differentiates. There is one house
mat prides itself on the strength of its
yea. Drink anything but tea in this house
II IS tho mixture of the strongest black
ana the strongest green tea that can be
eolten. great quantity is put in the
teapot, boiling water is added, and If
you receive the first cup and have nerves
ol IRON you might endure IT, but that tea
s1eans all afternoon, and when anyone
wonders why IT is so bitter the hostess
smiles and looks as delighted as possible,
MnHe she suggests that probably you are
not used to strong tea,
sugar dumped in by the pound would
not make that tea drinkable, and really
ana truly 1t is, in its strength, absolutely
POISONOUS. There are daVrpaa hafuaar,