My wife is celebrated for her little tea parties; not tea parties alone - but dinner parties, picnic parties, music parties, supper parties - in fact, she is the life and soul of all parties, which is more than any leading politician of the day can boast. But her great forte is her little tea parties - praised and enjoyed by everybody. A constant visitor at these little parties is Mrs. Hitchings (spoken of elsewhere, 279), and she remarks that she "never knew any one who understood the hart of bringing so many helegances together' as my wife. Nobody makes tea like her, and how she make6 it she will impart at a future time. But for her little "nick-nacks," as she calls them, which give a variety and a charm to the tea table, without trenching too deeply upon our own pocket, she has been kind enough to give a few receipts upon the present occasion.