Picture No | 10837831 |
Date | 1919 |
Description | The Last Tea by Higgins |
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'Swiftly fled each honey'd hour
Spent with military male;
Metropole became a bower
Cecil an Arcadian vale.
A rather mournful female clerical worker or secretary takes her last cup of tea of her wartime job. The implication is that she has enjoyed working with handsome military men (!) and the rhyme alludes to the number of London hotels that were requisitioned for military purposes during the Great War.
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Source | Illustration by Reginald Higgins in The Bystander, 5 February 1919 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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