The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-21
WHIMS ANC FADS
OF TEA DRINKERS
With the Social Season Will Come
New Trifics for the Afternoon
Tea Table

With the Social Season Will Come
New Trifics for the Afternoon
Tea Table.
With the approach Of the social sea-
son in town importers and dealers in
japanese and other Oriental wares are
setting forth a tempting array of
trinkets for the tea table or cart.
The very lowest offering is the
broad, low, shallow teacup. which has
entirely superseded the slender. high
cups heretofore associated with the
tea service. These new cups are as
broad as or broader across the top than
the ordinary family coffee cup, and
not more than an inch to two inches
in hight. They are prettiest in the
eggshell patterns, with the exceeding
~ fine and translucent lining. Wedge
wood is also popular.
For use with these cups comes a
new spoon, almost as small as an
after-dinner coffee spoon. In fact, If
the hostess selects her cups carefully
she can employ the small spoons she
already uses for demi-taste. For
many years the vogue has been for a
collection of odd and widely different
teacups, but now the demand is for
complete sets.
The latest fancy in a teapot is of
Satsuma ware, which looks like inlaid
work, depicting tiny Japanese scenes.
The pot is small, with a fiat bowl, and
has spout six inches in length, which
is longer than the teapot itself.
The perfectly equipped table boasts
of two teapots, the one in which the
tea is breWed and the one from which
it is served. A faster" whose word
is law in importing circles, says that
the true taste of any tea is lost after
it has been brewed four minutes At
the end of this time the only flavor
noticeable Is the bitterness of tannin,
the dangerous quality in tea. Hence
the secret of making a delicately fla
vored tea is to serve it after it has
been brewing but a minute or two
When a large number of persons must
be served in rapid succession, the tea
should be brewed in one pot, per-
mitted to stand two or three minutes,
and then poured through a china
not a metal-strainer into the second
pot Both pots must be stealning hot
before they are used. In warm wealth.
er a cosy is not needed, but in winter
the second teapot, or that from which
the beverage is served, should be
covtred with q cosy. The old-fash-
toned COSY like a hood, is much in
use, but a daintier accessory for the
afternoon tea table is one of the
wicker affairs lined with padded Jap
anese silk. These come in sizes to
fit almost any pot.
In tea carts there are offered some
dainty wagons better suited to bou-
doris than drawing rooms. They are
of French rattan in the natural color,
combined with another delicate tint.
They can be secured in pale blue, pale
inlr ;0hk and male VallnW- to
match boudoirs decorated in such
tints. The top has a glass tray effect,
and on the lower shelf are three COM
partments for the cakes, crackers, etc.,
separated by rattan ratings.
For the drawing room the inlaid
mahogany tea cart remains in favor,
and to cover the top of these extrav-
agant pieces of furniture come the
most exquisite of open work doylies,
the better to show off the beauties OF
the mosaic work.
For tables from which tea is to be
served at a large afternoon function,
the new tablecovers are rather small,
made to fit just inside the edge OF
both round and square tables. They
are inset with lace or open work and
embroidered by hand in Oriental col
orings.
Two new waters are offered for the
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cigarette wafer, and is delicate, roll
| ed sweet cracker not unlike champagne
waters in texture. When men are pres
ent chocolate snaps are considered
essential. These are a rich chocolate
paste, rolled in imitation of a cigar.
| Unsweetened crackers and a soft
| cheese to spread upon them have now
a place on the afternoon tea table, and
| pate de foie gras is much served.
| For decorative sweetmeats in setting
| forth this table preference is given to
crystallized ginger and fruits, with
slender, twisted sticks of candy
clear, transparent and cclored in ORR
entail tints.
In some homes, where the love OF
Oriental effects will not down, the
| cosy corner has been succeeded by a
tiny tea room. This is fitted up with
delicate, transparent Japanese hang
ings and furniture. A pretty fancy for
lighting this room is to cover the
electric globe with a brass frame a
foot or more in diameter. This frame
is wound lightly with a japanese