Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 115, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1911 — Our Teas Not Real Thing [ARTICLE]

Our Teas Not Real Thing

Foreign Visitor Bays the American Women Do Not Appreciate the Social Feature. "Few American women,** says a foreign visitor, “know how to drink a cup of tea. I don't mean they are ignorant of table manners. The point I make Is that they have no knowledge of the best way to enjoy tea drinking. They neither make of it the Impressive ceremony which it Is in China and Japan, nor do they derive the solid comfort from it that la characteristic of English women. Even the French woman, addicted though she Is to chocolate, and the German, always s slave to coffee, have clearer conceptions of the way to drink tea

than have your ladles In Washington or Gotham. The most enjoyable method of tea drinking is for a group of congenial women to meet In the home of one of them and sip the fragrant cup at their leisure, while discussing the interesting experiences of theii dally life. There Is none of such chumminess among Nqw Tork and Washington women. They make a tea a social affair, yet rob It of the very ceremonial that at least would make it picturesque. Washington women and those of some other big cities should take lessons either from the English or the Orientals. —Woman's National Weekly.