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... A VERY entertaining Dowager, who cannot give up the five o'clock tea habit and who thinks Lord Devonport a Von to be deported, compounds with her conscience by waging a ruthless war against petty waste. Pounds of sugar, she says, are lost every week in any large household by the unmelted residuum left at the bottom of tea-cups. She finds that her friends, and her servants too, commonly help ...