Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1911 — NOVEL IDEA IN TEA GIVING [ARTICLE]

NOVEL IDEA IN TEA GIVING

Passepartout Idea Work Used to Give Enjoyment to the Invited Guests..

When one of the members of a debutante group sent out cards for an informal afternoon tea she wrote on them Passepartout. Tea without explaining what form the merrymaking would titke other than tea drinking, and what part passepartouting would play in if. The girls found the parlor table set forth with a quantity of pretty prints selected from aft magazines, art photographs, etc., with shears, library paste, mounts, glass, and passepartout tape in different colors.

All drew around the table, and guests were asked to choose the pictures they liked and to passepartout them according to fancy. An hour passed delightfully in this agreeable craft, after which the three or four pictures prepared by each fair maid were exhibited and all voted for the exhibit which was considered happiest. After the awarding of the prizes a dainty tea followed, the idea of the occasion being Introduced in many clever little ways. For instance, the napkin rings were bound into cylinders with strips of passepartoutlng tape, and for place cards tiny glasses from unused photograph negatives (of a very smallsized camera) had been washed and employed to passepartout dainty pictures clipped from magazines. Each picture had the name of some girl and a jingle relating to her written upon it, tbo pictures chosen appropriately.