AFTERNOON TEA.
A wail. goes,, up; from '/.'an'. English, weekly paper for the oldtime " afternoon tea." Not that the! 4 o'clock' tea custom has gone.out, but-it has become, so to speak, coarsened ;and vulgarised. Oncb it, was fragrant tea ( and thin toast or bread and butter —delicate, exquisite, poetic,' conducive; to'gay/and witty 'conversation,;, the refreshment - that cheers and sustains,' but doesnt tako.'away the appetite for dinner. Little, by little food, gross food, crept into'this function/First it was muffins, then sandwiches,'-then jam, then sweets of other kinds—innumerable sweetstill now the tea.table is „:spread . as'for; a feast, ;.and afternoon tea' has' become) says, the complainant, "like orgy, /with ja'mmy fingers."' Conversation 'flags because everybody is so busy eating, and then because ho. or she is so lazy from the effects of eating.' A sad; profanation of : "a''pretty ceremony. ~ '/'..' ;-;.' {'''"' "' "'•
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 544, 26 June 1909, Page 11
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136AFTERNOON TEA. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 544, 26 June 1909, Page 11
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