



Produced by Annie McGuire. This book was produced from
scanned images of public domain material from The Internet
Archive.









Breakfasts and Teas


NOVEL SUGGESTIONS FOR SOCIAL
OCCASIONS


Compiled by
PAUL PIERCE

  Editor and Publisher of _What to Eat_, the National Food Magazine.
  Superintendent of Food Exhibits at the St. Louis Worlds's Fair.
  Honorary Commissioner of Foods at the Jamestown Exposition.

       *       *       *       *       *

CHICAGO
BREWER, BARSE & CO.


Copyrighted 1907
by
PAUL PIERCE




TO WOMEN EDITORS.


In appreciation of the many favorable press notices and high editorial
comment given to my previous efforts in the compilation of books on
suggestions for entertaining and in the publication of my magazine,
_What To Eat_, this book on "Breakfasts and Teas," is inscribed. Full
well I realize the difficulties under which most Women Editors labor in
their duty of suggesting new ideas for entertaining, and I hold a
sincere appreciation for the good they perform in elevating the women of
our country to a higher plain of civilization. When the woman is done
with the school room and finds herself in the social whirl it is then
she begins to see that she has another and very important course of
learning to acquire and forthwith she submits herself to the tutorage of
the editor of the woman's page. No school teacher of the world has such
a large class to instruct as this woman editor. Her pupils are numbered
by the thousands and tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands. The
knowledge she must impart is not of the kind that has been set down by
past generations and which once learned suffices as a supply for all
future dispensations. It is a knowledge of the day, which