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JENNIE INDULGES IN TEA AND GOSSIP.
On Thursday afternoon there was a brilliant assemblage in the spacious salon of the Princess von Steinheimer.

The rich attire of the ladies formed a series of kinetographic pictures that were dazzling, for Viennese women are adepts in the art of dress, as are their Parisian sisters.

Tea was served, not in cups and saucers, as Jennie had been accustomed to seeing it handed round, but in goblets of clear, thin Venetian glass, each set in a holder of encrusted filigree gold.

There were all manner of delicious cakes, for which the city is celebrated.
The tea itself had come overland through Russia from China and had not suffered the deterioration which an ocean voyage produces.