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Show London's Tea Houses. The death of Sir Joseph Lyons -reminds us what a modern Institution the teashop Is. . You need not be very old to remembor the time when practically prac-tically the only places where a cup of tea could be obtained in London were tho old fashioned coffee houses, with their boxed-In compartments and narrow, nar-row, uncomfortable seats. The customers were exclusively men, and if a woman required light refreshment refresh-ment she had to search for n confectioner's confec-tioner's shop, where tea and coffee were sometimes grudgingly served, at famine prices, at little round marble tables tucked away in dark corners. London Chronicle. |