The Osceola times., 1880-07-24
A Remedy Against the Heat.

The demand for tea in this country an
pears To increase. The increase is not ;
bad symptom. Where tea is wanted il
greater proportion, it is very probabl,
that the practice of Temperance is max
ing stride. 1t is little surfrisin.
that tea is not more popular beverage
in the south than coffee. During th,
cheated term" and that with us o.
course means the greater part of The
year, tea as q drink has no equal. Iced
il is very good, and many persons hay,
learned to prize it; but the value of hot
tea in hot weather isa thing few in this
country has learned.
"What, when you are rceking and faint
with heat, drink hot tea? Preposter.
ous"
So many readers will disclaim as they
read this, but there are persons who
dare 90 SO tar as TO examine all things
and hold fast what is good, and il Is very
easy to try whether drinking hot tea,
when smothered and overcome with
heat is preposterous or not. Now to try
the experiment.
A lady reader of the Appedl--and it is
notorious that all the handsomest ladies
in Memphis do read it-a lady reader of
the Appedi has been up to Main street.
spite of the heat, TO get something from
the dry goods store Indispensable for
dressing for church on Sunday. She
reaches home exhausted with heat, re-
proaches herself for going out in the
broiling sun against whose ardor even a
real ba.cony-shuttcr Japan parasol was
no protection, and calls for ice cream.
Soon the mouth is dryer and more Al
pine cold has to be poured where the
torrid flame has lighted a volcano. Our
lady readers have had experience in all
this, therefore they are well qualified TO
try the hot tea experiment. One Of
them had Just come from the drv goods
store, as we have said-ice has become
so dear that she has abridged her house
hold supply, and everybody has'been so
thirsty not a tea-cup full of ice water Is
To be had. This is the very time TO try
the experiment. Dinah is ironing down
stairs, and luckily has the tea kettle
boiling. Now put liberal allowance Of
tea into your smallest tea-pot-a metal
one is the best. Give the leaves a little
time 10 impart their generous properties
20 the waiter. Pour out and sugar, milk
if YOU will but it is better without. Then
begin To drink the tea as hot as YOU can
with comfort, and with some auickness,
Take that first cup as hot. and drink II as
quickly as possible. II you can drink a
second cup it NAV be drunk more lcis-
urely. Now what is the effect? You
are stcaming with perspiration. Every
pore is open. The skin is in full action.
The sickening languor and iaintness from
the heat of the sun, the heat reflected
inom hot brick walls, exhaustion from
the dust, nausea from the odors OF
the cutters and provision stores-it is
all gone. Before the second cup is fin
ished delicious feelings of quiet
calmncss ana rest comes on; you feel
cheerful and in twenty minutes you
have forgot all about the hot weather.
Those open pours. that outflow Of pers-
plration, have been very angels of mercy
The relief is entire and complete. Now
ladies, try hot tea. scalding tea if you
will were you are deluged with Ice wa
ter. The experiment is simple and easy.
When you have discovered that you
have found what you have so often
longcd for in hot weather, get a little tea
pot that will hold just two cupiulls, with
-pirit-lamp under il, then, any time
during the day when the heat becomes
oppressive, put you apparatus besides
yeur work on the parlor table, light your
lamp, and when the steam gives you its
orders, pour IN without stintiug your
imperial or hyson, aid your torment
from heat is conquered. If your hus.
band or son, or that young gentleman
with becoming nccktie and winning
voice, could only, when overheated and
exhausted, call in at the next corner and
get hot tea as readily as you can max,
it, how many hearts would cease to ache
how many households would change bit
ter tears for glad smilesi tl sl rf