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Show WHY SERVE CAKE WITH TEA? Writer Criticizes Hostesses for Their Penchant for Serving Inappropriate Inappro-priate Combinations. Anyone who serves wafers with tea is lacking in gastronomic imagination. Drinking tea and eating a wafer is like having a picnic in the woodshed, or wearing an Easter hat with goloshes, go-loshes, declares a writer in the Atlantic Atlan-tic Monthly. It is a hueless compromise where there might be a vivid delight. Many otherwise excellent hostesses fail to perceive the relation between afternoon after-noon tea and its edible accompanl-merfts. accompanl-merfts. They will serve you a hard, obstinate biscuit that you break, red-faced, red-faced, on the rim of your saucer, sending, send-ing, as likely as not, your cup bouncing bounc-ing over the other edge, and your tea splashing into your neighbor's lap; or they generously provide you with a huge, gelatinous cube of cake that adheres ad-heres to your saucer, and renders you temporarily web-fingered, the while juu aneuipi. 10 lormuiaie an epigram on Henry James, or discourse glibly as to why women like men. There is yet another type of hostess who passes with your tea a dribbling sandwich, oozing salad dressing at every pore and containing, half concealed, con-cealed, a malicious, indivisible lettuce leaf. People who thus fail of main-taining main-taining the fitness of things at the tea hour have no genuine appreciation apprecia-tion of the drink which they dispense. |