njoy coming to her
house and will come again.

How to Leave.

When the drawing-room is crowded it is possible to leave without
saying adieu to the hostess, and good form does not necessitate the
hostess to ask anyone to call again.

An Afternoon Tea-Saucer.

A convenience that any victim of the afternoon tea will appreciate is
a tray or elongated saucer, oval in shape. At one end is a rest made
of gold wire, in which the cup stands. The other is quite large
enough to allow of serving sandwiches, biscuit, or even a bit of salad
without burdening the guest with a second object to hold. The cup
stands firm in its place. Not even the jostling common in a crowded
room will displace it or endanger that breakage which so often follows
a crush. The tray is easily held in one hand, and the other is free to
handle fork or spoon without inconvenience of the smallest sort.

Pretty teapots for the five o'clock tea table are of rosewood in a
pinkish brown and in the usual olive coloring. The handles of the lids
are butterflies, and a butterfly is on the handle used for pouring.
Some of these elegant little pots are overlaid with a tracery of
silver. Teapots intended for Easter favors are of brown porcelain in
the form of a chicken with the mouth doing duty for the spout.

"Pink and Blue Teas."

These have been a great "fad," and while not quite so popular, are
pretty enough to deserve mention. A table is too often confused in its
arrangement of color on account of its changes of courses. This can be
entirely done away with by adopting some simple color scheme. A
luncheon, or tea, is easier to serve in this fashion because of its
simpler menu.

Amber and white will harmonize with celery, salads, ices and other
articles needed at a luncheon. The yellowish white, full of sunlight,
harmonizes with amber and can be followed up to deepest bronze. Amber
glasses, creamy damask, all the tints from white to bronze, can be
used in the dishes. Apricots heaped on amber dishes, ices tinted in
harmony, and a great mass of white roses for a center ornament, are
appropriate.

Another beautiful effect is to do away with the cloth and let the
polished wood of the table set the keynote of color. An oak table,
with its rich yellows and browns and its lurking suggestions of green,
would afford a color scheme with which all shades of amber, bronze and
yellow would blend. _Bon Silene_ or _Malmaison_ roses would also be in
harmony with the