Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-12-20

f4An Afternoon With South
Carolinians in The Cop
fS# per Tea Kettle" at
Northampton.
Dear Advertiser:
1s Ever since the Boston tea party,
Boston has stepped and drunk its daily
flseup Of tea. These six northeasterly
states are not called New England
d opriately, for they observe
sSary regularly the old England Gus
sEom of afternoon tea; drinking.
Many quaint little tea rooms: are
Si5 be found in the smaller towns and
the cities. miniature little shops
sornamented signs over the door,
fs above the gate, to unique en-
ii ;snce. s.T The Copper Kettle Tea
SoSmn breWs for you steaming cup,
! & NJ ther's Cupboard insures sa-
sYgrg home cooking, or even "The
lfPercupine Tea Room. may suit those
4 Hyfmore ssWood odsy, rustic tastes. Il,
I|s The Dutch Oven Tea Room"
Isssslould serve you Dutch crullers, per
d }sSapss i you liked them, and if not,
cinnamon toast and fudge cake. All
lhsse little shops were to be found in
Northampton. While there three
faseuth Carolina girls at Smith college,
asMassa chusetts friend and I, gather
sd in one of these tea rooms around
fatable set for five. 1t was very
great pleasure to entertain three
South Carolinians even if I had new
sEseen them before. There is ape
caliar tie that one South Carolinian
has for another. 1t is not true of all
states. We have no very large cities,
andsrather few large schools, and
since the population is comparatively
small, in one way and another, we
seem to know Of most of the fami-
lies in the state. At any rate, almost
any two South Carolinians are apt to,
have friends in common.
Isena Whittle of Blackyille, Estelle
RaWl of Columbia and Lueia Sulli-
van Of Anderson are the trio. For a.
lstl sJll while we existed, not in the far.
y Sss ssiin aIdssA ~
Fsaroiina, and slapsed Back a iittig per-
haps into the dialect that we are.
about to outgrow. Helen Wulbern of
Charleston was away for the week
end else she would have Joined our
merry party and we would have had
news then of our old State from the
sea to the Georgia line.
The girl from Columbia knew
Miss Lillian Smith; the girl from
Blackville said that Capt. N. G..
Evans had been friend of her faith
er's and the girl from Anderson
spoke of knowing Ouida Pattison.
Miss Sullivan was a freshman at
Smith, Miss Whittle a junior, and
Miss Rawl, a graduate of Winthrop
college, was working for her masters
degree at Smith.
I am rather fascinated by New
England's tea drinking habit. The
South drinks iced tea in the summer
to keep cool and New England drinks
hot tea in the winter to keep warm.
There is a saying that one can tell
ones fortune in tea cup by the way
the leaves arrange themselves. new
er can quite finish drinking one cup
to see what my fortune is. These New
Englanders drink three cups while l
am drinking one.
Long ago the Boston harbor was
ore big tea cup and the tea was a
drink forced unwillingly down the
throats by English tyrants. The leaves
then told a fortune of freedom, but
when the cup is made of dainty china
and drunk by youth and age it must
tell fortune of romance.
The Chinese drink their tea with
out sugar or cream. That shows a
real love for the stimulant. I mink
! it much better when elaborately re-
inforced with sugar and cream and
the bigger the better, the luncheon