TEA TABLE ETIQUETTE.
: Tea "table etiquette was somewhat compli-' cated.in the .days., of.: that /'"hardened and shameless tea "drinker,' . Dr. Johnson, -'when many people thought nothing of ■ drinking ten or twelve cups, at'a,i sitting. It .was considered proper for this cups and saucers of a party of.tea drihkers\ to he all passed;up to' the host-ess in : bpe batch \- when replenishment was considered necessary, and'in order that each person might..bo sure of getting. back the right cup, the teaspoons were numbered. When ; the cups, were passed up, those who did not require. any more .were supposed to place: the spoon .in the/'cup. : And this - writer remembers: a very ancient daine teaching a small boy to placo bis spoon in his cup after the first cup had been emptied. . She wondered "for the reason. ,Now she knows that tea was once very expensive,- and JifiEle boys were not expected to ask again. ; .: ■
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 562, 17 July 1909, Page 11
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150TEA TABLE ETIQUETTE. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 562, 17 July 1909, Page 11
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