RELICS.
At, tea the other day my hostess drew rnv attention to her little mats of waxed paper which stood on the saucer underneath the cup, writes a Londoner. They were relics of that, dainty fastidious era when ladies sipped from their saucer, placing the little mat. 011 the. table so that, the cup should not, mark it ! This modern hostess uses them to prevent drips from the cup dirtying the saucer—the idea, of course, being to save washing up and drips on to one's clothes.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20722, 15 November 1930, Page 6 (Supplement)
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86RELICS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20722, 15 November 1930, Page 6 (Supplement)
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