. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. sticirri I' \ V a '.n r Figure 3.—A Society of Patriotic Ladies at Edenton in Nortli Cirolina pledging to drink n:> more tea, 1775, an engraving publislied by R. Saver and J. Bennet, London. In Print and Photo- graph Division, Library- of Congress, {P/ioto courtesy of Library of Congress.) In the daily routine of activities when the hour for tea arrived, Moreau de St. Mery remarked that "the mistress of the house serves it and passes it ; '^ In the words of another late-18th-century diarist, the Marquis de Barbe-Marbo
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. sticirri I' \ V a '.n r Figure 3.—A Society of Patriotic Ladies at Edenton in Nortli Cirolina pledging to drink n:> more tea, 1775, an engraving publislied by R. Saver and J. Bennet, London. In Print and Photo- graph Division, Library- of Congress, {P/ioto courtesy of Library of Congress.) In the daily routine of activities when the hour for tea arrived, Moreau de St. Mery remarked that "the mistress of the house serves it and passes it ; '^ In the words of another late-18th-century diarist, the Marquis de Barbe-Marbois, those present might " Moreau de Saint-Mery, op. cil. (footnote 17), p. 266. PAPER 14: DRINKING IN 18TH-CENTURV .AMERK:.\ 544609—60 2 "seat themselves at a spotless mahogany table, and the eldest daughter of the household or one of the youngest married women makes the tea and gives a cup to each person in the ;' Family Group (fig. 1 I provides an illustration of this practice in the early part of the century. During the tea hour social and economic affairs were discussed, gossip exchanged, and, according to Barbe-Marbois, "when 69. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc. ]; for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.
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