. American cookery. arb be-came de rigueur for the new the other nations, who had beenholding off, in disdain of the eccen-tricities in food of English speakingpeople, began to come into the tea-drinkers fold. Hang the expense,they cried, we will try it just to seehow crazy these people are. Comingto scoff they remained to elevate thethen exotic rite of sipping tea in themiddle of an afternoon from a foreignidiosyncracy to a cosmopolitan functionof magnitude and distinction. But tea was destined to be crownedwith further laurels in its service the advent of the Super-Ho
. American cookery. arb be-came de rigueur for the new the other nations, who had beenholding off, in disdain of the eccen-tricities in food of English speakingpeople, began to come into the tea-drinkers fold. Hang the expense,they cried, we will try it just to seehow crazy these people are. Comingto scoff they remained to elevate thethen exotic rite of sipping tea in themiddle of an afternoon from a foreignidiosyncracy to a cosmopolitan functionof magnitude and distinction. But tea was destined to be crownedwith further laurels in its service the advent of the Super-Hotel,within the last three or four years, camethe apotheosis of Afternoon Tea. WhenEurope built the great hotels of five andsix hundred rooms, all of them with abath, put in elevators that carriedpassengers both up and down, openedRoyal and Imperial Suites (principallyfor American guests), tea got the realchance for which it had been lying low. It bubbled up like a boiling geyserunder the nose of the hotel Management. Popularizing of the Teasional Funny Situation. In the Early Days the Formula Used to Get Mixed, and PeopleUsed to Stop and Stare at the Tea Drinkers. 198 AMERICAN COOKERY and cried, Look at the following I havebrought you, now what are you going todo for me? and the whole establishmentbowed down before it. It got specialSalons installed for its consumption, ittook precedence in the largest andgrandest rooms that Europe ever builtfor the purposes of purveying food. Itwas housed in real palm gardens. Teawas assigned the front row in the long,shining, white hotel fagades, pre-emptedwindows that commanded the finestviews; and flower-garlanded terraceswere designed for its exclusive use. At this period the cold, Uttle marbletables and hard-backed chairs of thepast gave place to more commodioustables and arm chairs of bright tintedwicker, of white and gold. A specialbusiness grew up in tea-room furnish-ings, hitherto non-existent. Where butlately the special tea service
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