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Show Beautiful Eastern Things. Tho Chlneso know a lot. Thoy know how to mnko tho tea, and, nbovo all, how to kcop It hot without resorting to setting tho pot on tho stove nnd poisoning tho drinker with tunln. And they have given tho occidentals tho tea cosoy, that hoodllko cover tho English Eng-lish particularly nffect, nnd padded baskets Into which tho steaming tea pot Is dropped whllo undergoing ro-movnl ro-movnl from flro to table. Somo of the baskets for holding precious tencups aro llko boxes Intended for Jowols. and should the American with n perversity per-versity peculiar to her so desire, these lovely woven willow nntlques with brocaded linings might sorvo to hold her fancy work nnd tho over-present plcco of Bummer embroidery. Both Chlneso nnd Jnpnncso understand the art of enhancing tho rnroty of por-celnln por-celnln by placing It In n "padded cell," us It woro. Hence tho beauty of these baskets. |