Tea Cup Tuesday

Hello All!

Welcome to Tea Cup Tuesday!

I have been under the weather and missing tea time with you all!

This week I will be visiting as many of you as I am able.

How have you been?

I have a new tea cup to share.

I am sipping herbal tea from her minty green goodness.

(you can see bits of the herbs still in the cup)

She is a simple beauty..

She has no need of flowers or fanfare,

Her classic handle is elegant, and embellished with gold trim.

Her golden scroll work is just enough to distinguish her.

Along with my new cup,  I thought I might share a vintage post card 

about a missed visit.

I have always found vintage postcards fascinating.
It amazes me how much you can find out about some of them.

This lovely post card reads:

To: Miss Edna Whitaker
 Hartford City, Indiana

c/o A.W.Whitaker,   E. Water Street

Hartford City, Indiana

Below in the postal stamp you can see most of grandma's city name...

Millgrove.

"Dear Edna, Why didn't you come Sunday?

I looked for you all day.

We are about like we was,

I still have a headache."

"Grandma"

(best interpretation so far! lol!)

Grandma seems to think Edna still has the headache they both shared.

Sending a post card tells us

that they did not live close together.

In Grandma and Edna's day there were only a little over

5.8 million telephones connected in the United States.

Remember in the Downton Abbey episode when they installed their first phone?

Maybe A.W. Whitaker did not have a telephone yet?

(the person the card was c/o)

Or maybe grandma didn't have one.

Instead she bought a beautiful postcard and paid 1 cent to mail it.

Although she didn't mail it until Friday...
she may have had that headache all week. 

I became curious and looked online to see what I could find about Edna.

I actually found her in the 1940 census.

A.W. was her father, Alexander Whyte (?).

Edna was still living at home at 44 years old.
She was 17 when she missed her visit.

 Grandma lived in Millgrove, which was a stop on the railroad line,

 about 6 miles from the Hartford stop where Edna lived.

Maybe Edna took the train when she went to visit her grandma?

In 1913, 6 miles might have been quite the trip.

I do not know that they were going to have tea that Sunday afternoon.

It does seem possible for that time period as well as time of year. 

Today, if we were too sick to visit our friend...

we could use a landline, or a cell phone.
Text.

We could Skype or Facetime and even see the person!

Imagine what Grandma and Edna would have thought of that!

And what would grandma and Edna think if they knew 

that 100+ years later someone would be interested in them?

And put their correspondence online???
(what would they have thought of the internet?)

I hope they wouldn't mind.

Today's technology makes our world very different then theirs,
yet  a century later we are still gathering with loved ones for tea,
And
we can do it in Bloglandia too! 
Yay!

(Tuscan China was the manufacturer of this lovely cup.

This backstamp came in use in 1947.)

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Thank you so much for joining me for tea today!

Thank you for participating,

Thank you for commenting,

and thank you also to all who host 

tea parties!

I look forward to visiting you soon too : )

Hugs,

Terri

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