New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-07-26
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Piazza parties are the fad Of the hour in Flat
bush, where all the homes have piazzas with honey
suckle vines growing over them Piazza parties are
the simplest social affairs tuaginab BILE The hostess
invites her friends for certain afternoon, and the
guests wear their coolest muslins and bring their
daintiest needlework 10 the piazza This means
that they never enter the house at all. The piazza
is well supplied with willow chairs and canvas
backs-not ducks but chairs-smaIl tables, rattan
couch two, a swinging seat with pillows, and
screen If the draught is too strong piazza
party is not intellectual affair. but merely a
little old fashioned afternoon sociabe where all the
guests talk about anything they want TO- whether
IS another. servants books, babies, or what
not The refreshments also simple and unpre-
tenrious and may consist OF sherbet, ice cream
cake tiny sandwiches with tea, or mild punch or
II the weather unexpectedly turns cooler pot OF
not G1lSe ~ + rI scene of festivty-for do not
-IieLc 80 +ha 7eigIrors can long remain unaware
Of the event of piazza Party-and II me Hsa1
organ IS pleasant one the owner IS nound 10 reap
a goody harvest. The usual hours OF this social
function are from 10 O'Clock ~ may De III Ile5i
ualy becoming mere annexes 70 the piazzas, an9
OF not having room enough in it now consists In
not having the piazza large enough LOT Z piazza
party.
There is plenty Of people in the world who think
there are persons born to laundry work-that IS
born knowing how 70 do IL There are rev mouse
keepers who have a well defined idea OF now a
wash day should be conducted, and It Is genefaHy
conceded that there IS something pebeian ABOUT the
10 be avoided There is q brave young woman IN
%Au-YorL however who announces that when the
fail term of certain training school for laun-
dresses opens she will be Of the applicants Tor
instruction. II came about in this way. She was
recently married and became a householder IN a
cosey fat One day recently there were clothes TO
be washed and TO do it, so the valiant little
beginner at domestic life determined that she would
do il herself. She reflected a moment delving in
her memory for the details that she had an in
different recollection OF having seen employed IN
her youth. First she pinned up her gown and
rolled up her sleeves Then she dragged forth the
clothes hamper pulled out the wash boiler, turned
on the hot water got the buing bottle and the
clothes stick hauled the washboard forth from hid
ing found the soap and in less time than IL takes
TO tell II she had steam up and a fine fragrance OF
wash day industry all over the house She rubbed
until her back ached and she got soap in her eyes
and the crimp all came out OF her hair, and she
spilled water on the floor; but she was plucky, and
down under with the clothes stick There is no
telling all did Nobody knows all she did
She doesn't even know herself But pretty soon
the place looked Is though the Fire Department
/ had been playing on IL Before she reached the
bluing wafer she began 10 cry because she dis
cation of the fact made her pretty mad So she
lust imprisoned that hateful impossible washing
under cover Of the tubs await the arrival Of
an artist artisan in the person Of q laundress
/ whom she had always looked down upon because
she knew so little that she had to do washing for
| teIIgent upon the subject herself