Word: teas
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Fuller. John Jay Chapman writes on the "Fourth Canto of the Inferno," Kate Mason Rowland on "Maryland Women and French Officers," Walter B. Hill on the "Relief of Suitors in Federal Courts" and Percival Lowell on the "Fate of a Japanese Reformer." Dr. Holmes continues his tea-cup chat and the number closes with the usual book reviews...
...hundred and fifty men take one or more meals at this club each day, and there is still a large waiting list. Thirty men take lunches only. All the meals are served a lacarte. It is the main purpose of the club to serve thoroughly good food at cost. Tea, coffee and cocoa cost three cents; a glass of milk, two cents; various kinds of bread, one cent; pies, five cents; cold meats, ten cents; eggs, eight and ten cents; soups, five cents; roast beef or mutton, twelve cents; vegetables four or two cents; pudding, five cents;. There are various...
...Holmes' third paper of his "Over the Tea Cups," commences with a general talk of the company upon the subject of the last paper; then a witty comparison of Hadrian's hymn and Catullus' poem to Lesbia's sparrow, and the paper ends with a poem alluding to James Freeman Clarke a classmate of Dr. Holmes. The paper abounds in gentle satiric touches, which are full of the wisdom...