From Cupid's Book, 1929.

From Boys and Girls Bookshelf, 1920. 

Tea is served.  From Chatterbox, 1878.

"Enough magnificence to spoil plain living.  Hardly anyone wanted tea."  From The Daily Colonist, 1959.

From St. Nicholas magazine, 1888.

"A special occasion provides the perfect excuse to wear a hat or headpiece, but how do you get it right?" (The Bridesmaid's Handbook).

Photo from Dry Goods Review, 1914.

How to use teakettle steam to keep one's quill pen supple.  From Heidelberg College's 1916 yearbook.

From Peace Institute's 1930 yearbook.

From Artful Anticks by Oliver Herford (1894).

"Secret of the boiling kettle."  From Advanced Magic by Magical Ovette, 1919.

From St. Nicholas magazine, 1888.

From North Western College's 1914 yearbook.

From We Look About Us by Gerald Craig, 1932.

"Mistakes people make."  From Home Words for Heart & Hearth by Charles Bullock, 1898.

There's just a bit more to making a good cup of tea than we realized.  From Going-To-The-Sun by Vachel Lindsay, 1923.

Just as you may have guessed, fairy tea contains heartsease, Johnny-jump-up, May-bloom, joy-weed, and waterfall water.  Note that both "heartsease" and "Johnny-jump-up" are names for wild pansies.  How to tell one from the other?  We suggest that one is mostly purple and one is mostly yellow.  From St. Nicholas, 1914.

From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by A. E. Jackson, 1914.

From Oberlin College's 1916 yearbook.

From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by Peter Newell, 1901.

From Lehigh's 1887 yearbook.