Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1920 — THESE WOMEN DID NOT TALK [ARTICLE]

THESE WOMEN DID NOT TALK

English Matrons Adopt Silent Tea— Sacred Music Is the Only Sound. Mansfield, England.—Silent teas for women are an innovation which Mrs. Hoskyne, wife of the bishop of Southwell, is trying to establish here. Many women attended a recent meeting of the mothers’ union just to see whether the seemingly impossible might be accomplished. It is reported that there was no talking, but that the tedium of tea without a chat was rellteved by sacred music.