I just finished reading the first in an old girls series, Patty Fairfield by Carolyn Wells, and tea figured in quite a few scenes. Several comments made us smile in the Parlor, including a scene involving a tea party without the tea, just pretend "real Russian tea" that everyone sipped daintily from their real, but empty, cups.
""Ho, ho," laughed her brother, "a tea! Why they're the most stupid things in the world. Nobody wants to come to a tea."
"Teas are ever so much stylisher than evening entertainments, aren't they, mamma?"
[Quotes from Patty Fairfield, by Carolyn Wells, 1901; Kindle edition, locations 261 and 263.]
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