Those Tea Talks.
Doctor Baciielok, of Dunedin, has told the Moclical Congress at Melbourne thai the conversation which sometimes takes plac e at afternoon tea-tables is physically suggestive and detrimental, and cortainly not of a nature to be heaid by young girls, Wo arc sorry to hear this, lake most people, we have always imagined that conversation of the suggestive and detrimental character was confined to the male clubs, tho talk at the feminine tea table being, like the aftor church chat, all beauty and bonnets. It seems that wo aro wrong and that the tone of the conversation among the female worshippers of the goddess Tanine is often nearly as harmful as that of the devotees of Bacchus. How all the old illusions are fading away ! Most people can remember when the Alexandra limp was fashionablo ; now apparently the afternoon tea double evtenche is coming in. Here is another chance for women righters to ru&h to the rescue.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 340, 6 February 1889, Page 3
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159Those Tea Talks. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 340, 6 February 1889, Page 3
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