Unnecessary Eating
HEN we analyse the situation and ask-why do women make such a feature of morning and afternoon teas, we have to admit that it is partly a matter of social custom, Entertaining to . morning or afternoon tea is definitely a part of our social life, and we naturally tend to honour our guests by turning on the best and most attractive
so00aqs we can. ine guests, in their turn, feel honour bound to do justice to what we have provided, and so the snowball of too-elaborate afternoon teas, and too much eaten at them, is set rolling and as it rolls it gets bigger and bigger. It is a fact that a normally healthy person, living a moderately active life, and: consuming three well-bal-
anced meals a day, literally requires at most only a snack between meals. But that snack can be more attractively served, and if we wish to entertain, the cordiality of our welcome can be expressed not by the array of food, but by its simple attractiveness and the . well-polished silver, the carefully set tea table or tray, the attractively arranged flowers--("Simplicity in Refreshments," A.C.E. Talk, 4YA, December 3.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 130, 19 December 1941, Page 5
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194Unnecessary Eating New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 130, 19 December 1941, Page 5
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