The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-07
Kate Rohrer Cain in the National Food
 Magazine for September.

Kate Rohrer Cain In the National Food
 Magazine for September.
 % IE gayest time of all the day in
 (0 Paris is from clock to c, when
 tea is "on"
 Everybody takes tea, and, as Tout-Paris dresses for tea, the streets and the tea rooms are exhibitions of the fashions without waiting for the Grand Prix.
 The modern travel madness touches the Parisians but lightly, accustomed as they are to the movement of their vibrant Vile Lumiere. too much so to be stricken with anything from without. They go away for the pleasure of travelling back to Parisl
 A friend whose mail address in Coll dOr-or farther away-you may find at Armenonville, or the Press Catalan In the Bois. Those who are viliageures find multitude of excuses to return to Paris for a coup d oel Ca fleeting glance) of their native heath, when they can be in time for little cup of tea Thus the streets of Paris, the tearooms and the maisons d' luxe, which blossom with fair women at the tea hour-are living kalei-
 
 the oft preached revolution in Paris does not take place 1t is because the Parisians are giving artistic touches to an old one. The gentlest of revolutions-public tea drinking in Paris is an innovation of the last decade; popular development of Frances commercial interests in the Orient
 No doubt that visiting English and Americans have greatly contributed to the success of the public tearooms; still tea has been drunk in Paris in very ex- elusive circles ever since the travels or the early missionaries in China, when they returned with rare teas, precious discov- tries or imperial presents.
 The ever increasing teahouses are ac- ceptable rivals of the beer saloons, which are ever present reminders of the Ger man conquest. Wine fingers, and Theure verte comes round, but many of the fa- nous cafes serve tea and all of the hotels have tearooms or inner tea gardens which are gathering places for the Parisians as well as for the denizens of the travel world-men as well as women. The French make distinction between places du monde, and family places, which distinction is prudent to observe. Otherwise, teahouses in general are ladies' resorts, where. gentlemen are well I come, but not miscellaneous mixed l crowds
 On the rue de rUniversite Is charm ing old hotel of the same name-fur- nished in the time of the first empire with a glass topped tearoonr like bon bonniere in a bower of palms, birds and flowers. This is a favorite resort of the ] deputies, when they consider grave prob- lems of state over cup or tea.
 Napoleon lodged near here when he was making up his mind whether or not to come to America. It would take the Bibho teque Rationale to interpret the impressions on the stones in the pave ment thereabout. many of them having been traversed by the celebrities of all | France.
 ] Some teahouses are more for samovar and show than for tea, being an excuse | for bewildering costuming. and let us l hope amiable gossip. At one very small place, short cut between the Louvre and l the Madeleine, there is scarcely stand l ing room when tea Is at high tide, so to | speak. This affords rushing Americans a l breathing spell, and is supposed to be a | resort for American "mult-millionaire- l esses" So many superane automobilea