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The Supper Room - New Year's Eve at the Mansion-House, [London], 1850. Children's party in the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London. '...the present Lord Mayor has decided that the children of his fellow-citizens shall no longer be excluded from the Mansion-House festivities. The occasion has been well chosen for such an extension; and this was Monday last, or New Year's Eve, when the Lady Mayoress gave what is termed a "Juvenile Entertainment," to which were invited several hundreds of the sons and daughters of the citizens, between the ages of seven and fifteen...refreshments being most liberally served to the company during the evening in the Long Parlour'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.