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' NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 7 
Tea and The Dance 
By SALLY STORROW 
SPV ONDERFUL !” the Englishman languidly reached 
for his fifth cup of oolong, and asked, “Why 
are you Americans always in such a rippin’ hurry?” 
“Tf that is a conundrum, I give it up!” gayly replied 
_the New York girl, as she gathered her filmy wraps about 
her preparatory to leaving the tea-house.” 
“T also resign,’ murmured her attendant cavalier, as 
the twentieth motor-car whizzed up to the door, and the 
hostess was heard wearily explaining for the twentieth 
time. “No we can’t serve it quite so soon. You see we do 
it English country fashion, and boil spring water fresh 
for each brew. You must wait just long enough for that, 
and for the toast to brown properly. We always do it 
separately for each order, to have it good.” And then she 
piloted her tea guests into the rooms, tactfully bringing 
some antiques to their sotice, to occupy their attention. 
“Arnold Bennett says your United States is a cruci- 
ble, and Isreal Langwill terms it a melting-pot for all 
nationalities, and so I presume the present stages of 
boiling are so rapid that everyone must perforce hurry,” 
said the Briton, furnishing his own answer, as if it had 
been rehearsed. 
“Why not call it a mixing-bowl,” queried the hostess, 
in culinary wise, “so much of a stir,—and when we sim- 
mer down then shall we develop a veritable leisure class. 
Mr. Bennett, of whom you speak, tells that a New York 
host, after madly rushing him through the station to 
catch a somewhat earlier car, triumphantly explained at 
dinner that they had achieved just four and one-half min- 
utes of saved time by the feat. ‘And now what will you 
do with it?’ asked the guest. But the host had not really 
thought of anything special there. It was just his way 
of hurrying. We had some people Tuesday who just 
loafed about elegantly,” she continued. “You would have 
felt at home with them. Of course they were from 
And Monday there were several South- 
They never hurry. The card-parties make it 
nice for us. We can serve them quite proper tea, and all 
the accessories in good condition. But so much of Amer- 
ican tea-drinking is of the ‘gabble, gobble, git’ order, to 
quote somebody or other, that they don’t even bother to 
notice the blend.” 
“I may be enough of a heathen to enjoy Demerara 
sugar in my coffee,” said the Englishman, “but I never 
take lemon with English breakfast, when there is cream 
on the tray.” And he glanced at a plump dame who 
had put all the lemon slices in her cup. “It may be 
because she is reducing,” he added softly, “but orange 
Pekoe with a slice of lemon, and of orange, with perhaps 
a clove in the cup now and then, is so much better-” 
“According to Hashimura Toga,” said the lingering 
New York maiden, “we serve tea here stylishly, with 
tango, etc., and with great absence of stiff-souled Jap- 
anese ambassadorial dignity, when thirsty for oolong.” 
“When the tea goes out the tango’s in!” All gasped. 
“And that is why ’tis no longer difficult to compel men and 
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husbands to come to tea!” Thereupon she wisely van- 
ished. ‘“Tea never makes persons dance, in Japan,” said 
the Englishman. ‘‘As for me, I want iced tea with my 
tango at a hotel. But for my afternoon jaunt into the 
country, and my refreshing cup of hot tea, let me have 
it here.” And he bowed to the hostess. “But really you 
ought to give it a name. The ‘rose tree blend,’ now; 
that is a quaint, and ‘Londony’ name.—I know it’s not 
Sir Thomas’s yellow label, ’though I’ll wager it comes 
from London!” “Yes, that is why you like it, I pre- 
sume,” said the hostess. ‘‘A friend of mine, when she fills 
her own caddy, always does a commission for me there. 
She has a special place-” “‘Tea-making, like dancing, is 
an art,” said another guest, ‘‘and far better the slow cere- 
mony of Japan than the nervously made tea in some Amer- 
ican tea-places .” 
“Oh, they’re not to blame,” said the hostess. ‘Who 
could make tea proper, all the time conscious of some one 
waiting ina hurry? If you are not good I'll threaten to 
put your name in ‘of those present,’ another of our 
American customs that our British friend dislikes.” 
“What I don’t like is the mixing of business and 
pleasure,” said he. “Advertising, like diplomacy, should 
be tactful, as well as decently truthful. You go in such 
hordes too, all to one big place, then presto, change to 
another. There are a number of little artistic places all 
about London, each with its special flavor. It’s more 
fun to try some of ’em sometimes, and then we love quiet. 
‘Popular resort’ and ‘regardless of expense’ are strictly 
American phrases. ‘Téte a téte tea sometimes appeals to 
me. An afternoon in the country, a small party, and a 
little originality now and then is so refreshing. A little 
informality, and the privilege to invite one’s soul to 
loiter and stroll about a bit. Here, all the places seem 
cast in one mould.” 
“How could it be otherwise?” contributed the per- 
sistent guest. ‘‘Deadly efficiency and hopeless adequacy 
are American attributes of which we are proud: While 
efficiency, one hundred per cent, is proper enough in its 
place, it becomes a bore when eternally met with. Old- 
time simplicity, restfulness, democracy and courtesy are 
escaping us. We haven’t time for ’em. The majority of 
folks see things plain black-and-white. ’Tis only the few 
who can appreciate the inumerable values of gray in 
between. 
“That is why our dancing is usually accurate as clock 
work to be admired. But Southern nationalities usually 
dance as well because the poesy of rythm and harmony, 
the graceful languor, or brilliancy of abandon, depend 
so much upon the personal poise, of temperament and 
charm.” 
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