Around the Tea-Table

Our theory has always been, Eat lightly in the evening. While, therefore, morning and noon there is bountifulness, we do not have much on our tea-table but dishes and talk. The most of the world’s work ought to be finished by six o'clock p.m. The children are home from school. The wife is done mending or shopping. The merchant has got through with dry-goods or hardware. Let the ring of the tea-bell be sharp and musical. Walk into the room fragrant with Oolong or Young Hyson. Seat yourself at the tea-table wide enough apart to have room to take out your pocket-handkerchief if you want to cry at any pitiful story of the day, or to spread yourself in laughter if some one propound an irresistible conundrum.