Refunding of Railroad Debt, Part 1: Hearing Before the Committee on Interstate, United States Senate, Sixty-Seventh Congress, First Session on S. 2337 (1921)

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not- some people of course never do- the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in mind in beginning to unfold this simple history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime.