Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1913 — NEWEST AFTERNOON TEA FAD [ARTICLE]

NEWEST AFTERNOON TEA FAD

Ingenious Girl Devised Something That Really Seems to Fill a Want That Has Long Been Felt. t The young mistress of a kitchenette apartment is in the habit of giving a small weekly afternoon tea. Recently at one of them her friends exclaimed in surprise at the sight of the tea table. In place of the copper kettle and Japanase teapot there stood, solemn, but not ungainly, two decorative bottles wreathed In flowers. “Yes,” said the hostess, in answer to her guests’ inquiring looks. “There is tea with tea leaves of course in one and hot boiling water in the other. It seemed to me that I always had to put in more alcohol in the lamp at the very moment when I was listening to the most interesting bit of gossip. “Then you remember how that careless Carrie, gesticulating as she always does when she tells a story, sent a blue flickering flames from the alcohol lamp almost close to a lace frill. These bottles receive the tea and water at the required temperature and keep them warm, I have learned to pour the contents out quite skilfully.*