tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27819536701556116562024-03-05T10:30:38.699-08:00Traditions and Tea at Georgia Belle et CieClasses, seminars and lively discussions in a 1920’s literary tea salon setting, at the historic Graber Olive House in Ontario CaliforniaMaura Graberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454242849006197805noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781953670155611656.post-34746072785918703402021-07-30T02:49:00.000-07:002021-07-30T02:49:35.569-07:00Rude Competitive Eating<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><i><br /></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">Due to Covid concerns, we have not been able to reopen yet for Traditions and Teas, though we have been trying to for the past few months. As soon as we are able to schedule our next dates, we will be making announcements via email, social media and newspapers. </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">Until then, here’s an entertaining article on a contest for a skill that drove those who cared about good table manners, absolutely nuts back in the 1920’s… A contest to see who was best at eating peas with one’s knife!!</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><i><br /></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><i><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKldlI0zjjyvNAj7ct3HXaAEFQCgNfkh5Zy-qelagb-34QL1VXr9q3A4wLi7xv9Xt0Q-aKidG34j1cKX0ozp9iYAaTP9oZQc0nYXQF6KURdzg_RjMGf7e5WmEpHgi7r6RZXBiwx5ox0Co/s1528/D2EEDE6E-6708-4900-8900-095B700B0A7B.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1528" data-original-width="1228" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKldlI0zjjyvNAj7ct3HXaAEFQCgNfkh5Zy-qelagb-34QL1VXr9q3A4wLi7xv9Xt0Q-aKidG34j1cKX0ozp9iYAaTP9oZQc0nYXQF6KURdzg_RjMGf7e5WmEpHgi7r6RZXBiwx5ox0Co/w514-h640/D2EEDE6E-6708-4900-8900-095B700B0A7B.jpeg" width="514" /></a></span></i></b></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">Move over, Nathan’s! It wasn’t those New York famous hot dogs which were being eaten competitively in the early 20th century. Bad manners were also on display, with a twist (or should I say, ‘a slit’?) in this competition. In 1929, on the West Coast, one Ruth Keller was the winner of a competition of eating peas with a knife! The knives all had a special slit down the middle to help speed things along. </span></i></b></div></b> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); word-spacing: 1px;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><b>Why Peas Leave Pod</b></span></span></p><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px; word-spacing: 1px;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Why they leave their plate via the knife route was demonstrated by Ruth Keller, who is the champion of California when it comes to consuming the little vegetables with only a knife as a weapon. She won the state title in competition with other girls.– A. P. photo.</span><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px; word-spacing: 1px;"><br /></div><div data-originalcomputedfontsize="17" data-removefontsize="true" dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); text-align: center; word-spacing: 1px;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><b>Girl Proves Champion at Eating Peas With Knife</b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px; word-spacing: 1px;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">LA CRESCENTA, Dec. 28.– Eating peas with a knife, like drinking coffee with a spoon in the cup, is admittedly poor table manners. But because Ruth Keller of this town excelled at the first-named social ban, she is wearing a medal today as the fastest green pea eater in California. In competition with other pretty maidens, Miss Keller sat down to a festive board here recently with a huge bowl of the elusive little vegetables in front of her, and only a knife as a weapon. Everybody started off at a given signal. </span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The only advantage possessed by the contestants over the ordinary individual who likes his peas on a knife, was that the blades used by the girls had a slit down the center. The theory of this stroke of mechanical genius, displayed by one of the contest managers, was that the peas would stick in the slit and slide down easier into the mouth. Miss Keller consumed her peas in amazingly short time. True, they skipped and staggered and skidded about on the knife, but even the most unruly pea finally succumbed to the girl's sense of balance and followed its more tractable predecessors, until all had disappeared. - Oakland Tribune, 1929</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB_JLEHk17OK80wymhYRIMPn3h_4-djaRSoRdhjNRcsJIURjqWADK2b1M5ijVAt1JWofT3MtuYVJsZuKCaitgm4pVxTAiyN2JBkXXdGq49Qm-RKDOTrniMHtZCinmM-sFY8qhAtnOI6xk/s1083/560BD225-C933-49EC-9935-AE3CC86278EC.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><i><b><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="932" data-original-width="1083" height="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB_JLEHk17OK80wymhYRIMPn3h_4-djaRSoRdhjNRcsJIURjqWADK2b1M5ijVAt1JWofT3MtuYVJsZuKCaitgm4pVxTAiyN2JBkXXdGq49Qm-RKDOTrniMHtZCinmM-sFY8qhAtnOI6xk/w640-h550/560BD225-C933-49EC-9935-AE3CC86278EC.jpeg" width="640" /></span></b></i></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: times; font-size: large;">A safety pea knife with a slit down the middle, as advertised in the late 1920’s <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px; word-spacing: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.0625rem;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px; word-spacing: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.0625rem;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px; word-spacing: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.0625rem;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px; word-spacing: 1px;"><span style="font-size: 1.0625rem;"><br /></span></div></div></div>Maura Graberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454242849006197805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781953670155611656.post-78416409729739845402020-11-14T01:58:00.000-08:002020-11-14T01:58:32.020-08:00An Update on Our Historical Talks<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Maura Graberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454242849006197805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781953670155611656.post-27965626523246252452020-04-25T02:02:00.000-07:002020-04-25T02:11:38.208-07:00Elbows Off the Table, Mable!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Little hemispheres are rather elusive, but if that age-old decree of social etiquette that one should never put his elbows on the table has been proven all wrong. Also now popular idea that a grapefruit's only social usage is that of a morning appetizer, or as one of the innocent concomitants of salad or cocktail, has been proven fallacious. Nowadays, in really smart society, you plaster your elbows brazenly upon the festal board. Furthermore, you plaster them in your grapefruit! A whole one to each guest. Cut it in half to be sure, and one part is employed by each elbow for a parking place. Elbows inspired the new fad. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Elbows are highly important parts of the anatomy in these days when women's sleeves are usually short or absent altogether. Some one discovered that the juice of grapefruit is softening and bleaching when applied to the elbows, and so efficacious that it seems as though the gods of feminine beauty designed it for arm angles. Someone else discovered that the way to combine business and pleasure is to play bridge with the aforesaid elbows resting in the damp, stinging nests of grapefruit. It is said to be difficult to get into the knack of it at first. The little hemispheres are exceedingly elusive. With the expanding scope of the new fad, it is said that all grapefruit-bridge players will arrive at a party equipped with their own towels and goggles.— </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Miss Hazel Clark, </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1922</span></b><br />
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Maura Graberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454242849006197805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781953670155611656.post-72709299398627326802020-03-04T02:31:00.001-08:002020-03-16T17:39:28.628-07:00Upcoming Jane Austen Teas<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Maura Graberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454242849006197805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781953670155611656.post-59284533617687904842019-11-17T00:30:00.000-08:002019-11-17T00:30:23.093-08:00New Holiday Talks with Teas<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">“The story of tea is as strange and as fascinating as any that one can read. A prehistoric event dating back some 5,000 years is bound to be shrouded in many mysteries, but the exceptional qualities of tea are such that many legends developed concerning its beginnings. A highly civilized people like the Chinese considered it a special gift from heaven. In India, too, it was much the same. In Japan, a special ceremony grew around it. The habit of drinking tea is the only purely Asian custom which commands universal interest. Through it, the East and West have met — in a teacup!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Its introduction had a charming influence on our Western culture, even though a great deal of smuggling and piracy helped to bring it about. Discriminating Chinese taste insisted that tea should be drunk from porcelain; and this subsequently had a tremendous effect on world trade and the voyages of clipper ships. Art, politics, and religion were all involved. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">All this mystery and adventure stirred up many superstitions. Even today, some tea companies attach a little saying to each tea bag, such as: "to stir tea in the pot is to stir up strife."</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">"Floating tea leaves mean 'watch for strangers coming.' To tell the gender and the day of arrival, put them on the back of one hand and tap the hand with the other until they adhere — each tap is one day — and if they are soft leaves, it is a woman; if hard, a man."Fortune-telling from tea leaves is not solely a gypsy custom. Many people have read meanings into the shapes and groups of leaves that form in the bottom of the cup — how accurately is, of course, another matter...’’ - from Table Settings, Entertaining and Etiquette; A History and Guide</span></b></div>
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Maura Graberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454242849006197805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781953670155611656.post-1290977648350401082019-09-19T02:55:00.001-07:002019-09-19T02:55:48.307-07:00Planning Our 125th Celebrations <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Yes we are, Violet! We took some time off, while we’re planning the Graber Olive House’s 125th anniversary celebrations , but we’ll soon be back. </span></b></i><i><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Our newest Traditions and Tea schedule (including some Downton Abbey themed teas) will be up later this month on the blog. We have some great talks planned for our 125th year, so check back with us to reserve a spot!</span></b></i></div>
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Maura Graberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454242849006197805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781953670155611656.post-81252925003210250462019-07-04T02:18:00.001-07:002019-07-04T02:18:47.277-07:00Celebrating Independence Day<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Maura Graberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454242849006197805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781953670155611656.post-68333744429222788212019-06-18T21:25:00.001-07:002019-06-18T21:25:39.913-07:00Gloves and Glove Etiquette<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Maura Graberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454242849006197805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781953670155611656.post-21052096063360094772019-05-15T00:56:00.001-07:002019-05-15T01:50:20.348-07:0019th C. Napkin Folding<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Maura Graberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454242849006197805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781953670155611656.post-81726627267738521122019-04-20T22:38:00.001-07:002019-07-04T02:19:31.413-07:00Have a Wonderful Easter<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Maura Graberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454242849006197805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781953670155611656.post-64070806598431901082019-04-17T23:07:00.001-07:002019-04-17T23:07:43.864-07:001920’s Advertising for Mothers <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">I love to see what life was like for women </span></b><b><span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">during Georgia Belle Graber’s days as a mother of young children. I wonder if she used Lydia’s E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. The adverts for the elixir were found in all of the local and larger newspapers.</span></b><br />
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Maura Graberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454242849006197805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781953670155611656.post-4082233327759706602019-04-17T22:57:00.000-07:002019-04-17T22:57:21.445-07:001921 Humor in the News<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Wilson College girls got out their examination books today and answered the now famous Edison questions. Here is the result of their labor over some of the questions:<br /><br />Q. What star is it that has recently been measured and found to be of enormous size?<br /><br />A. Fatty Arbuckle. <br /><br />Q. Who was Cleopatra? <br /><br />A. Anthony's sweetie. <br /><br />Q. What is coke? <br /><br />A. Seven cents, including; war tax. <br /><br />Q. Where do we get peanuts from? <br /><br />A. The circus. <br /><br />Q. From where do we get our dates? <br /><br />A. The University of Pennsylvania. <br /><br />Q. To what is the change of seasons due? <br /><br />A. Good teamwork on the part of the milliners and dressmakers. <br /><br />Q. What state is the largest? <br /><br />A. Matrimony.</span></b></div>
Maura Graberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454242849006197805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781953670155611656.post-53414995540446409872019-03-21T00:38:00.001-07:002019-03-21T00:38:57.413-07:00Boyabus Kissabus <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Ruth Martin</i></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">I found this charming verse when researching the women of the Graber Olive House family for a 4 month long exhibit at the Ontario Museum of History and Art in 2017. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">Ruth Martin was not a Graber, but her daughter, Betty, became one when she married Bob Graber in 1936. The paper was signed “By the author, Ruth Martin.” </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">This style of speaking was called “hog Latin” and was all the rage with schoolgirls in the late-1800’s, and made comebacks several times in the early 1900’s.</span></b><br />
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Maura Graberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454242849006197805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781953670155611656.post-85920471376789221242018-10-04T04:11:00.000-07:002019-06-18T22:49:22.607-07:00About “Traditions and Tea”<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">We are located at the historic Graber Olive House in Ontario California. My husband’s grandfather, C. C. Graber, started the company </span></b><b><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">in 1894. Our 1920's tea room setting is named after C.C.’s wife, Georgia Belle Graber. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><br />The 1920's were such a great time of change for the women in the U.S. and our talks and classes focus on man</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">y of those changes for women, the etiquette, dress and lifestyle of the </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">era</span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">, and those preceding that time period.<br /><br />Each talk or class is accompanied by refreshments in the form of an afternoon tea – scones, assorted finger sandwiches, dainty desserts and, of course, freshly brewed pots of tea! </span></span></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><i><b><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">Our talk on “Dining with Royalty; From Picnics to the Palaces” </span><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">are fun and informative. One item people enjoy viewing is the original table seating chart for the dinner given in honor of the Duke of Gloucester’s visit to Australia in 1934. We don’t simply cover the British royal family, but dining with royals the world over, throughout history.</span></b></i><br />
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Maura Graberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454242849006197805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781953670155611656.post-39250706680762278612018-09-28T18:25:00.000-07:002018-09-28T18:32:38.234-07:00Tea and Visiting Card Etiquette<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Maura Graberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454242849006197805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781953670155611656.post-59352994354144619312018-09-13T00:13:00.000-07:002018-09-13T00:13:28.943-07:00Georgia Belle’s Calling Card Etiquette<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">One of my favorite items to show and discuss at our talks and teas, is a box of Georgia Belle Graber’s calling cards. Calling cards were the forerunners of today’s business cards. As she became “Mrs. Clifford Clement Graber” in 1907, and I was marrying his grandson and namesake in 1990, the box of cards, along with the copperplate for engraving, was an engagement gift to me from my late-mother in law, Betty Graber. Stop in and ask about them!</span></b></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Pictured above and below– Georgia Belle Graber’s Edwardian era calling cards from 1907, sitting in an antique Pairpoint silver, calling card tray, atop two business cards for “Georgia Belle et Cie.” </span></b></i><i><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">The tray features a tenacious dog who does not wish to give up the newspaper he has snagged and holds in his teeth. The newspaper is dated May 4, 1891 – </span></b></i></div>
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<b><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-style: italic; text-align: start;">“The wise woman carries cards with her wherever she goes, for there are many uses for them. Nowadays, she carries shopping cards also, and saves time and trouble when she makes purchases. A neatly engraved card is always in good taste, even when not strictly up to style, but a careful woman is modish in that, as in every other detail of her toilette.” </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Sometimes I open letters to find that the desired information would be too late. That happens when social functions are looming up in the near future, and somebody has met a puzzling situation. Generally, such letters ask for information on the subject of visiting cards or notes of acceptance or regret. There are only a few rules governing the etiquette on such occasions, but they are important. Every woman should know them, even though she has no occasion for such knowledge. We learn a good deal which is never put to account, you know. </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">“When a woman calls upon a new neighbor, she carries a card for each woman in the family and her husband’s cards as well, with one for the masculine head of the house. That is only for the first call; which is returned in like manner, and then the acquaintance is purely a matter of individual choice. The demands of etiquette have been met. Cards are convenient things even after terms of intimacy have been established, for they serve as reminders of visits whigh might be forgotten or might never be known. The wise woman carries cards with her wherever she goes, for there are many uses for them. Nowadays, she carries shopping cards also, and saves time and trouble when she makes purchases. A neatly engraved card is always in good taste, even when not strictly up to style, but a careful woman is modish in that, as in every other detail of her toilette. <br /><br />“Letters of acceptance or regret are imperative, and shortcomings in this line are never overlooked. The sender of an invitation has a right to expect the courtesy of a reply of some sort — and the nature of the reply has much bearing upon the success of the function. In wedding invitations, the answers are sent to those who issue them, no matter whether there is an acquaintanceship or not. For instance, the parents of a bride send many such to friends of the bridegroom, persons they have never seen, but answers are due them just </span><span style="font-size: large;">the same.” –Betty Bradeen, 1909</span></span></b><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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Maura Graberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454242849006197805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781953670155611656.post-43921591957030352512018-08-19T03:27:00.003-07:002018-08-27T02:18:15.220-07:00Vintage Glove Etiquette<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Don’t eat, drink, or smoke with gloves on.<br />Don’t play cards with gloves on.<br />Don’t apply makeup with gloves on.<br />Don’t wear jewelry over gloves, with the exception of bracelets.<br />Don’t make a habit of carrying your gloves.</span></span></b><br />
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<li><b><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">It abolished big hats, hair nets, whalebones, steel corsets, garters, veils and hatpins. </span></b></li>
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<b><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">According to one fashion expert, “Thus came about the greatest single revolution in dress since fig leaf aprons were abolished.’’ </span></b></blockquote>
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<b><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">March 19, 1929</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tea drinking has become very fashionable among us of late years, almost as much as it was in England a century ago, but the prevailing customs at the table are different. The "teacup times of hood and hoop" had their own etiquette, of a sort not likely to be revived. What should we think now of a fashionable lady who cooled her tea with her breath? </span></span></b></blockquote>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Her two red lips affected zephyrs blow </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">To cool the Bohea and inflame the beau. </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">While one white finger and a thumb conspire </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">To lift the cup and make the world admire.</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"></span></b></blockquote>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Again a passage in contemporary literature shows that it was a lack of good manners to take much cream or sugar in one's tea. Says a lady of quality to her daughter:</span></b></blockquote>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“I must further advise you, Harriet, not to heap such mountains of sugar into your tea, nor to pour such a deluge of cream in. People will certainly take you for the daughter of a dairymaid.” </span></b></blockquote>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Certain other customs may be remembered in this country among us who had grandmothers trained in the ceremonies of a later day. One of them consisted in putting the spoon in the cup to show that no more tea was desired; another was that of turning over the cup in the saucer for the same purpose. </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b></b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Etiquette also demanded that the tea should be tasted from the spoon, and that the hostess should then inquire, "Is your tea agreeable?" Certain scrupulous old ladies ask that now, and the question savors of a more sedate and gentle day than this.</span></b><b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"><span style="font-size: large;">— </span>From The</span></i></b><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"> St. Louis Republic, 1899 and </span></i></b><i style="color: #660000; text-align: center;"><b>Etiquette Enthusiast, Maura J. Graber, Site Moderator for Etiquipedia© Etiquette Encyclopedia</b></i></span></blockquote>
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Maura Graberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454242849006197805noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781953670155611656.post-52638530523856102232018-06-14T22:50:00.004-07:002018-06-14T22:55:19.466-07:00Tea Time in Morocco<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">“As a Paris contemporary observes, taking tea in France or in England is an easy and graceful process, but according to the etiquette of Morocco, the same can not be said. Tea is an honored institution in the houses of the Caids, and it is the custom for the guests to take three cups in succession – the first with sugar, the second with the addition of vanilla and the third with mint.<br /><br />“The curious thing is the way the tea is made. The vessel in which it is brewed is warmed by the head of the house. Next he puts in the tea and sugar. Then, after a time, he draws off a cup and tastes it. The remainder goes back into the pot. This is repeated until the beverage suits the palate of the host. Then the cups are passed around, but they are not emptied by the guests. What, remains is pased back the host, who puts it into the vessel for the preparations which are to follow with vanilla and mint.” – The San Francisco Call, 1912</span></b></div>
Maura Graberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454242849006197805noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781953670155611656.post-85326806680357808012018-06-06T00:52:00.001-07:002018-06-06T00:52:33.914-07:00The “Dutchess” is a Teaspoon?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;">There is quite a bit of history at the Royal College of Physicians in England. After all, it was founded in 1518 by a charter granted by King Henry VIII, so it has been in business for quite some time.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">The teaspoon in question, or a “Dutchess” if you will, is from a collection of medical artifacts at the college. Medical artifacts collected by the late Dr. Cecil Symons (1921–1987) and his wife Jean. Dr. Symons was a cardiologist with a curiosity about Georgian Era medicinal spoons, among other things. He and his wife Jean didn't simply buy items for their historical significance, many were bought because they simply liked the pieces and found them interesting. I have found most collectors buy items for the same reason. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> According to Jean Symons in her article, “A Duchess, a Physician and a Spoon”, Symons writes, “The development of the medicine spoon in the Georgian era and particularly whether it preceded the teaspoon - or vice versa - was of particular interest. In 1979 a spoon came up for auction inscribed: ‘Gift of the Dutchess of Queensberry to Lady Carbery.’ Why did she give a spoon in a shagreen case? Was it for medicine or tea? She was known to have a deep interest in potions, tissanes and balsamic draughts and to have made them for her friends. A dose of medicine became known as ‘a teaspoonful’ and it is interesting that that the modern 5ml plastic medicine measure has exactly the same capacity as the gift of the Dutchess of Queensberry to Lady Carberry of 1755.”</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Just as today, tea at that time was promoted by many as having medicinal benefits. In fact, according to Symons, the Dutchess of Queensberry had given away many such spoons as gifts, along with the “medicines” she had made. So many were given away in fact, that a teaspoon soon came to be known as “a Dutchess”. </span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1XA2LEoCXFjKGxP9WiL5ZL0uioVmUzz3JVYt1lkyRfBDW4N00FOGzcJlevRaCmx6PbtFJrQQWfjx8tZEIAvCZPqPLjaY2Oxi6JjicSaaNltI8erYGlLPx24zP2Cyydw48PfIB1gHEu8iL/s1600/a_duchess_a_physician_and_a_spoon-Jean+Symons.jpg" style="font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1XA2LEoCXFjKGxP9WiL5ZL0uioVmUzz3JVYt1lkyRfBDW4N00FOGzcJlevRaCmx6PbtFJrQQWfjx8tZEIAvCZPqPLjaY2Oxi6JjicSaaNltI8erYGlLPx24zP2Cyydw48PfIB1gHEu8iL/s400/a_duchess_a_physician_and_a_spoon-Jean+Symons.jpg" /></a></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> ‘A Dutchess’ (c. 1755), engraved on a similar spoon in the Symons Collection made by Thomas and William Chawner in London and a silver medicine spoon and case (c.1755) inscribed 'Gift of the Dutchess of Queensberry to Lady Carberry' .</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> Notes Symons, "A dose of medicine became known as ‘a teaspoonful’ and the modern plastic medicine spoon, still called a teaspoon, has an identical 5 ml capacity to the duchess’s silver spoon, which further suggests it may have been used as a medicine spoon.” So there you have it... A dutchess is just like a teaspoon. – </span><i>First published on Etiquette with Maura Graber in July 2011</i></span></b></div>
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Maura Graberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454242849006197805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781953670155611656.post-84625378140213778352018-06-01T01:18:00.001-07:002018-06-01T01:24:35.622-07:00Victorian Tea Science Etiquette<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Professor Goodfellow, the well known English analyst, gives these rules for making “good” tea: </span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">1. Always use good tea. </span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">2. Use “two” hot, dry earthenware teapots. </span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">3. Use soft water which has just got to the boil. </span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">4. Infuse about four minutes. </span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">5. Pour off into the second hot, dry teapot. </span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">6. Avoid second brews with used tea leaves. </span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>The fact that tea, as served in France is so often bad, may be accounted for by the omission of some one, or perhaps all, of the above rules in its preparation. They are all necessary to make a, cup of really good tea, and if they were more often strictly adhered to tea would oftener be a delicious beverage. Even at the best “afternoon tea” rooms in England, America and France I do not believe that “two” hot, “dry” teapots are often used to make tea “fresh for each customer,” or that the tea leaves thereafter are thrown away.– </b></span><b style="color: #4c1900; font-family: cambria;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The Los Angeles Herald, 1899</i></span></span></b></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11578833320927397297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781953670155611656.post-92227856617172359642018-06-01T00:36:00.000-07:002018-06-01T00:36:17.201-07:00Celebrating French, British and Spanish Beverages<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="text-align: start;"><span style="color: #783f04;"><i>What is it about the French coffee? </i></span></b><b style="text-align: start;"><span style="color: #783f04;"><i>The coffee sweetened with that sparkling beet-root sugar which ornaments a French table, is the celebrated café-au-lait, the name of which has gone round the world. </i></span></b></span></td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />We are not about to enter into the merits of the great tea-and-coffee controversy, further than in our general caution concerning them in the chapter on Healthful Drinks; but we now proceed to treat of them as actual existences, and speak only of the modes of making the best of them. The French coffee is reputed the best in the world; and a thousand voices have asked, What is it about the French coffee?<br /><br />In the first place, then, the French coffee is coffee, and not chickory, or rye, or beans, or peas. In the second place, it is freshly roasted, whenever made—roasted with great care and even</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ess in a little revolving cylinder which makes part of the furniture of every kitchen, and which keeps in the aroma of the berry. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is never overdone, so as to destroy the coffee-flavor, which is in nine cases out of ten the fault of the coffee we meet with. Then it is ground, and placed in a coffee-pot with a filter through which, when it has yielded up its life to the boiling water poured upon it, the delicious extract percolates in clear drops, the coffee-pot standing on a heated stove to maintain the temperature. The nose of the coffee-pot is stopped up to prevent the escape of the aroma during this process. The extract thus obtained is a perfectly clear, dark fluid, known as café noir, or black coffee. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is black only because of its strength, being in fact almost the very essential oil of coffee. A table-spoonful of this in boiled milk would make what is ordinarily called a strong cup of coffee. The boiled milk is prepared with no less care. It must be fresh and new, not merely warmed or even brought to the boiling-point, but slowly simmered till it attains a thick, creamy richness. The coffee mixed with this, and sweetened with that sparkling beet-root sugar which ornaments a French table, is the celebrated café-au-lait, the name of which has gone round the world. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As we look to France for the best coffee, so we must look to England for the perfection of tea. The tea-kettle is as much an English institution as aristocracy or the Prayer-Book; and when one wants to know exactly how tea should he made, one has only to ask how a fine old English house-keeper makes it. </span></b></div>
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<b><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The first article of her faith is, that the water must not merely be hot, not merely have boiled a few moments since, but be actually boiling at the moment it touches the tea. Hence, though servants in England are vastly better trained than with us, this delicate mystery is seldom left to their hands. Tea-making belongs to the drawing-room, and high-born ladies preside at the bubbling and loud hissing urn, and see that all due rites and solemnities are properly performed—that the cups are hot, and that the infused tea waits the exact time before the libations commence. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Of late, the introduction of English breakfast-tea has raised a new sect among the tea-drinkers, reversing some of the old canons. Breakfast-tea must be boiled! Unlike the delicate article of olden time, which required only a momentary infusion to develop its richness, this requires a longer and severer treatment to bring out its strength—thus confusing all the established usages, and throwing the work into the hands of the cook in the kitchen. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The faults of tea, as too commonly found at our hotels and boarding-houses, are, that it is made in every way the reverse of what it should be. The water is hot, perhaps, but not boiling; the tea has a general flat, stale, smoky taste, devoid of life or spirit; and it is served usually with thin milk, instead of cream. Cream is an essential to the richness of tea as of coffee. Lacking cream, boiled milk is better than cold. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Chocolate is a French and Spanish article, and one seldom served on American tables. We in America, however, make an article every way equal to any which can be imported from Paris, and he who buys the best vanilla-chocolate may rest assured that no foreign land can furnish anything better. A very rich and delicious beverage may be made by dissolving this in milk, slowly boiled down after the French fashion. </span><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">–From Catharine Beecher's and Harriet Beecher Stowe's, 1869, “American Woman's Home"</span></b></div>
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Maura Graberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02454242849006197805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2781953670155611656.post-34399029447872069912018-05-31T03:24:00.000-07:002018-09-29T23:19:42.430-07:00A Literary Tea Salon<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><b><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">This past winter, a friend and I decided we’d love to offer talks on</span></b></i><i><b><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"> a variety of subjects</span></b></i><i><b><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"> at the Graber Olive House. Earlene Freeman and I regularly speak on etiquette, dining history, and vintage clothing, but we wanted to expand our horizons a bit. We wanted to not only host talks and seminars, but to also serve afternoon tea as refreshment. Little did we know, the Victorians came up with the idea back in 1893 and called these talks with tea served, “Literary Tea Salons.” Picking up my unread, thirty year old copy of a book on afternoon teas, I was surprised to read this passage below... </span></b></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><br />The upper echelons of Victorian society were great patrons of the arts, and have lofty intellectual affectations. They gathered in each other's homes at tea time for musicals, book readings and lectures. Percy Bysshe Shelley is quoted as saying, “Teas, where small talk dies in agonies.” But that hardly seems the case. As proof, read this item from the society pages of a Philadelphia newspaper in 1893 –<br /><br />“Mrs. John Sherwood, that interesting and indefatigable old lady, is giving a series of lectures on fashionable subjects in the most elegant parlors of the city. She gathers the cream of the beau monde about her. Mrs. John Sherwood thoroughly understands her listeners. They want the café frappé of ideas on all subjects, and she gives them just what they ask for, beaten very light and frothy indeed.<br /><br />“In contrast to the charming whipped cream of Mrs. Sherwood are the intense, original dramatic lectures of Mrs. Florence Williams. She dissects Balzac with the keenest knife of criticism, and takes one into the innermost darkness of Dantean imagination. She has the head and deep tones of a man. She stirs one's interest and makes one think. Her audiences are not as large as Mrs. Sherwood's, but they are made up of cleverer people.”<br /><br />Your own salon need not be nearly so pretentious. Considering meeting with a group of friends on a regular basis, perhaps rotating homes, to informally discuss current books, films and music. Enjoy the company, gossip a little, and of course, have a great tea. – From Angela Hynes’ “Tea Time Treasury”</span></b><br />
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