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.
In appreciation of the many favorable press notices and high editorialcomment given to my previous efforts in the compilation of books onsuggestions for entertaining and in the publication of my magazine,What To Eat, this book on "Breakfasts and Teas," is inscribed. Fullwell I realize the difficulties under which most Women Editors labor intheir duty of suggesting new ideas for entertaining, and I hold asincere appreciation for the good they perform in elevating the women ofour country to a higher plain of civilization. When the woman is donewith the school room and finds herself in the social whirl it is thenshe begins to see that she has another and very important course oflearning to acquire and forthwith she submits herself to the tutorage ofthe editor of the woman's page. No school teacher of the world has sucha large class to instruct as this woman editor. Her pupils are numberedby the thousands and tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands. Theknowledge she must impart is not of the kind that has been set down bypast generations and which once learned suffices as a supply for allfuture dispensations. It is a knowledge of the day, which is constantlychanging and which must be gleaned each day for the lessons of themorrow. This little book embraces the latest information on the title itbears, and all herein contained, that may be of help to the womaneditor, she is welcome to use if she will comply with the publisher'srule of giving the proper credit to the volume.
"Breakfast and Teas" is a companion book to that most interesting andhelpful series of social works compiled by Paul Pierce, publisher ofWhat To Eat, the National Food Magazine, and the world's authority onall problems pertaining to the drawing room and the table. The otherbooks are "Dinners and Luncheons," "Parties and Entertainments,""Suppers," and "Weddings and Wedding Celebrations." The contents of eacholume are selected with especial regard for the extent of theirhelpfulness for the perplexed hostess. The instructions that are givenwill afford suggestions for all the different kinds of social functionsthe host or hostess ever will have occasion to give or to attend, andtherefore all the volumes combined will furnish a veritable library forthe person who entertains or who attends entertainments, and no personwith a regard for correct social forms should fail to be supplied withall five of the books. In the directions special attention is given tothe suggestions afforded for other kinds of entertainments, so that ineach entertainment described the reader will find ideas for a dozen ormore entertainments of a similar nature.
Chapter I. Breakfasts at High Noon—Typical Breakfast Menu—BreakfastDecorations—Two Bride-Elect Breakfasts—Silver Wedding Day Breakfast—AFamily Breakfast—Light Informal Breakfast.
Chapter II.. Two Bon Voyage Breakfasts—Who Takes the Cake?—Breakfastand Tea for Christmas or Thanksgiving.
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