Tea room business

Mrs. Ida Lee Cary
Dedicated to my daughter
Eula
Printed by The A. V. Haight Co. Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Copyright, 1920, Ida Lee Cary
Tea Room Business is the most attractive and profitable way for a woman to earn money in her own home. Though married you will find you can buy many things for yourself and family that you could not buy if you did not have a business of your own.
I hope with my following instruction you will have a profitable business.
Yours for success, (Mrs.) Ida Lee Cary.
You may select any pleasant room in your house to use for Tea Room. Have the room well aired every morning and free from dust, you may use one large table or two or three small tables that seat four to a table. If a tablecloth is used in place of doilies, first lay the silent cloth without a crease or wrinkle. Then lay the linen cloth perfectly smooth and even and in the center of your table place a linen centerpiece with a vase of flowers or a small table fern.
If you use candlesticks place them on each side of the flowers, place chairs around the table at each place. Now you are ready to set your table, the silver forks at the left of the plate and knife and spoons at the right of the plate and lay them in the order they are to be used, the first one to be used on the outside. Place a folded napkin at the left of the plate, a bread and butter plate at the tips of the forks with butter spreader laid across the plate. Near the top of each plate individual pepper and salt cellars, at the right of each plate place a glass for water, and sugar bowl and cream pitcher at each end of the table.
Food should be passed at the left and placed at the right. When coffee and tea is served, place a cup at the right of each person.
When clearing off the table, food must be first removed, then the soiled dishes, glass, silver, then crumb. Everything relating to one course must be removed before serving another course. Soiled plates and dishes should be removed from the right. Glasses for water must be kept filled.