The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-30
Tea Table EtiQUette.
Oriental Parties Are All the Go In New York--Story OF
DoIys Picture Hat

A glance at New Works Fifth avenue
crowded with carriages convlnces one
that the oolong wave. better known as
the afternoon tea. is likely TO result in a
cyclone. The poStman is delivering cards
for teas in every direction. To-day it -
Washington Square, tomorrow it is
Nineteenth street. and the merits Of the
caravan tea made IN a Russian samovar.
OF English breakfast made in satsuma
teapot or Of orange pekOe, made IN
: silver ball. specially agi1ate the fenlir-
sne nin6. With Russian tea a liquear
glass of sherry or rum may be put IN.
sud is supposed To add To it's excellence.
For my own part. | am old-fashloned
enough 10 long for sugar and cream N
nav tes and 70 prefer it out of a oroau'
sow. thin cup rather than out Of a rum
bier. riud that / am not alone IN my
tastes. which proves that the eonserV;i-
tive party il growing. Very rhin sand
vSSrhes made tasty with : leaf Of lettuce
and . dash of mayonnaise dressing ur
slxsns-list chocolate waters that fairly
mel. in ones mouth are offered at tea.
The uen who drop in are apt 10 choose.
in ureference 10 either Of these. slice
If bread. hurtered ON thel Oaf. with mt
lie Raspberry or strawberry jam over II.
AS lady" Is. in the Saxon, loaf glver.
il seems appropriate for her to serve
bread in this fashion. and the woman
who can stand and dispense it from the
Loaf gracefully. Is the pOssesSor of Ii
charm that is absolutely unequaled. Sery
ing tea sinks into insigniticance beside
II. One would think the aroma of bread
and butter would be over it, bat in reality
there cut the loaf and make it dainty
FOR you is capable of being the wise
woman in the Proverbs. liable to manage
those of her own household" and this Is
not the easiest thing IN the world. A
woman has to be a bit of a diplomat. dis
well as to have clear. common sense, TO
manage the different elements in home
so that harmony is the result.
EVOLUTION OF A BIG HAT.
Yesterday afternoon, while drinking
my fifth cup of tea, | was the confidante
of a Young woman who had attempted
to economic. This young woman-we
will call her Dolly-concluded that all
new bonnets except those she made her
self would be barred out, but that by
using some very handsome feathers she
already possessed she might have large
hat. According TO her own account, she
meditated after this fashion: My
feathers are beautiful; they deserve to
be put ON hat by a master IN the art
OF posing feathers, and. as they VIII
constitute the trimming | can afford
to go to a first-class milliner who abso-
lutely understands the art of making a
picture hit Burdened with her feath-
en, she invaded the workship of the
high priest of the big hats, told him
what she wished and he consented, after
much persuasion. to mount her piumes
for her. She tried on various hats until
the shape desired was got and then in
quired the price of the new one. 1t was
$24, ..Ha. ha,'' she thought. Mine will
be about So" Within a week a box
the size of three ordinary bandboxes IN
one and of dead white wasteboard ap
peared, oyershadowed by small boy
in a startling livery, who presented bill
for $19.75 Not being brave Mistress
Dolly did not behave as she should-thai
Is jerk, out her feathers and send the hat
back with her compliments. Instead she
meekly paid the bill. clutehed the white
elephant seated herself before the mirror
and tried ON the hat. Somehow Dolly
thought her face had never looked Sc
small. 1t certainly had never been as
white. and it had never looked SO insight
it very pointed? Was it very enormous
After declining TO answer these ques-
tions. even to herself. she brought conso.
lation to her own soul by thinking that
she was not used to a hat like that, AMI
she determined to try it on her friends
that is. to see what their opinions would
be. Her most intimate friend was delici.
ously vague, and said that she never
saw handsomer materials" Her best
young man was inclined to be a little
brusaue, looked at it. looked at her, and
then inquired. do you call that hat
call it a hearse, and you look like n
small corpse under it," Then she cried
and he went away wishing that he hadn't
said anything, and, to make her fee
better, sent her ten pounds of candy and
a big bunch of violets. But, alas! fol
Dolly. She has spent more money than
she could afford. She possesses hal
that she will not wear, and at present
she is ripping it TO pieces and making
Bah ONE. g % 90 &c. g. g. g.
small ibonnets out of it. There is mora
to this tale, which is, when You go il
for hat. beware of the picturesque.
Even when you are not saving money
you will find that it is better in the Ion:
run to look like other woman than to
have on your head a startling symphony
in feathers and felt. No man except ar
artist likes very big hat. and he only
likes it because it helps to decorate bis
studio when he gives an afternoon tea
Consequently he is purely selfish in Ms
approval of it.
USES OF THE CHATELAINE.
The chatelaine has got to be matter
of great Importance, and the girl whC
does not posses one with anywhere from
80 to $50 silver and gold things dangling
on it feels that she is entirely out of the
swim. had to laugh the other day
when i heard a man say, '.She is such
nice woman, because she always has
such lot of pins about her. 1t seemed
1t curious sort Of approval, and yet il
anybody will remember how often pin
is longed for and how hard it is to get
when hooks and eyes and buttons that
do button are to the fore. somebody who
has plenty of pins may be Il godsend TO a
nervous woman who has torn her frock,
or to the swell who needs to pin his
scarf at the side, or who has had an ac-
cident with his coat. The pins, Of course,
are carried in a little pincushion dang