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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1926.
TEA AND GOOD
QUAKERS.
AN HISTORICAL SKETCH.
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To be seen in the street with- out an umbrella is almost to ap- poar undressed, no universal has] the, fad become,
Collectors of travel-books may never have seen Mincing-lane, but they knew that toa, like wine, has its literature. Mr. B. O. Mon- nell has by his new book Tea, an Historical Sketch," added a work delightful in externals and ourious in contents. It would havo boan still botter if the author At present there seems to be no could have persuaded himself to ruling as to the sort of umbrella keep his disputablo politics out that should be carried, writes a of it, but the rest is engaging Daily Chronicle correspondent, enough. In form the book is aand the slim quarto, with a perfect air of Oxford's young mon includes the variety sported by seventeenth-century printing.old fashioned crook handled The coloured frontispiece repro-brolly, the "stumpy," the long ducon Rowlandson's vivacious staff affected by cadaverous impression of one of the East aesthetes, and
even the old- India Company's Auctions in fashioned green cotton gamp 1808,
apparently borrowed from L carrier'a cart.
The other illustrations are in thoir way a real contribution to Tho gayest spirits have broken the social record. Thoy are out into coloured umbrellas, and price-lists and circulars chiefly one
group porambulatos the drawn from family records since. 'High " and the Cornmarket with the eighteenth contury; for the an enormous umbrolla of u author belongs to the seventh passionate pink. genoration of a line of teamen. There seems no reason why In 1785, when young Mr. Pitt novelties should not ho introduc- was still a new and most surprised, such as folding umbrellas for ing Prime Minister, the cheapest the pocket, and hollow handles to Bohea was 1s. 118. a pound, serve as cigarette of spectacle while the aristocratic Hysons ran cases. New colours would be up to ton shillings. Mr. Mennell's distinctive and decidedly smart general story is well and per- the spicuously written. He tells how Ruskin Rouge," or the "Bulling- "Magdalen Mauve," the tea came into England before don Blue" for example. Or a Charles the First lost his head. new shape for the elect-the The last Stuart bahold a com-Balliol Brolly." fortable extension. "Great Anna whom threo realms obey," did "sometimes counsel tako and Oxford man must now wear No sometimas tay. It was
hat, bags, a brolly, rainbow jum- cup which cheers and not per, turn-down coilar, sporte coat, inobriates.”
horn glasses, golf hose.
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the
To be quite "it" the compleat
The origin of the newest craze
So we come to the prodigious is said to have been the use of an cultivation and commorcs of our unbrella on some occasion by the own time, and learn how India Prince of Wales. Already tho
credit to many a dowager.
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