THE LITTLE TEA BOOK 



interesting. With them it is a polite, 

 purring, soft, gentle, kind, sympa- 

 thetic, delicious beverage. 



In support of this theory, notice 

 what Pope, Gay, Crabbe, Cowper, 

 Dryden, and others have written on 

 the subject. 



" The tea-cup times of hood and hoop, 

 And when the patch was worn " 



wrote Tennyson of the early half 

 of the seventeenth century. 



What a suggestive couplet, full of 

 the foibles and follies of the times ! 

 A picture a la mode of the period 

 when fair dames made their red 

 cheeks cute with eccentric patches. 

 Ornamented with high coiffures, 

 powdered hair, robed in satin petti- 

 coats and square-cut bodices, they 

 blossomed, according to the old en- 

 gravings, into most fetching figures. 



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