The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-01-01
1LL ABOUT YElf:

arr ABOUT TEA:
Tho Cup that Cheers but never 1nebri
ates.
A writer in M exchange has the
following to say about tea
Tho nose is one of the
best Judges for distinguishing
good tea, and how to prepare
tea properly art teaches us:
10 obtain beverage very aromatic
and only in o small degree astrin-
gent you must infuse the tea for
half IN hour i'll very small quantity
OF cold water, and then add the
boiling water, pouring the tea, be-
1c tore 1t is very brown, into the cup.
Ihe cold water saturatcs tho whole
texture of the leaves and produces
the same advantages as when we
wish to obtain good broth from
butchers meat, and the boiling
water separates the tannin from the
caffeine, which is precipitated when
the infusion begins to grow cold.
In effect, if yon take toa in the
Russian fashion, in u drinking glass;
you will sec the tea grow turbid
almost us soon as it is poured out.
L think it is wise to take only the
first infusion, which contains from
four to six times as much useful
substance as the second. This last
has the inconvenience Of being only
in very small degree aromatic and
in high degree astringent. The
addition of few drops Of lemon
juice, or of any other vegetable
acld, renders tea more exciting;
and this custom prevails among
poor Chinese and many Russians.
Ihe addition of an alliali, on tho
contrary, makes tea less stimulating
and IN some measure narcotical
In Chinese Tartary, in Cashmere;
and in other countries of Asia, the
leaves Of tea are eaten, cooked in
various modes with butter, flour
and soda, and the richness of the
leaves in albuminc explains their
nutritive power. It is said in the
travels of Hue, CADET, Auchterlony
and others, that good soup of tea
is one Of the best ailments for those
about to undertake fatiguing Jour-
neys IN lofty mountains Tea ex-
cites tho movements Of tho heart
less than coffee, is less hostile to
sleep, and is less tit to sustain in
tellectual labor; but more than
coffee 1T increases the eliminative
activity of the skin and respiration.
More than everything, experience
avalleth to indicate to any ono
whether, from tho state Of his
nerves, his brain or his digestion,
he ought to prefer ton or coffee.
In every fashion it seems to be
proved that after dinnor tho
Chinese leaf ought to be preferred
to the Abyssinian berry. In very
cold countries and on very cold
days, and consequently with su--
prone reason in the Arctic zone, tea
is the best of drinks, as all travellers
have demonstrated. DR.. Kane did
not hesitate to call tea the "great
panacen of Arctic travel" The OK
cessive use of tea, especially green
tea, produces obstinate wakefulness,
nervous tremblings, commissions,
cramps of the stomach, palpitations
Of the heart, and. so on.
AYERS AMERICAN ALMANAC is now
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isfaction and profit. It contains an
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shows how to trent nearly all the dis
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invariably recommends the best
remedies to be employed, irrespoc,.
tive Of Ayers Family Medicines, and
furnishes, indeed, the best medical
advice by which q great majority of
ailments can be trcatod success.
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