The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-04-21
At the Tsble-A Glimpse at the Literature
Of Tea and Coffee.

New York Evening Post.
Profound treaties have been written,
wordy arguments have been wasted.
and SARCASTIC expletives leveled gener-
ally about tho mental as well as the
physical influence Of tea and coffee up
on civilized people. The English, who
generally take to tea for breakfast, are
becoming gradually converted to COT
fee. but they are valiant tea drinkers
yet. although it makes the flesh fiabby
and skin wrinkled. The two dccoctions
offered unfailing subjects for the book
writers and reviewers to quarrel over I'M
til the famous Liebig with his chemical
discoveries asserted that tea and coffee
had become n~ecessaries of life to whole
nations, but especially essential to the
poorer classes, supplying a void not
readily filed up by the limited supply
of good meats and wholesome food gem
orally.
Coffee and tea were introduced into
England like Romulus and Remus. AM
were each in turn rclentlessly abused.
mot only hy the people, but by the State.
\ Coffee Inherited the title of shell broth. '
Tea was called frank poison" but as y
refuge for the wits of the day from
smaller fry, the coffee houses from the
start were always enormously patron
lied. In 1900 that clever and comfort
able old body, Pepys. wrote:
II did send for a cup of tea Ga China
drink of which l had never drank be.
FORE" and six or seven years later he
again wrote: Home. and there found
my wife making of tea, n drink which
Mr.. Polling. the potticary. tells her il
good for her cold and defluxions."
This precious drug the good old lady
ticary has sold her at y frightful price.
at the very lowcst-a crown for an
ounce; but Pcpys was thereafter great.
ly comforted by n handful of q certain
Garway Of Exchange alley. who now
sold tea at so low prices as les to 90
q pound. Many noblemen, physic
ians, and surgeons resorted to his house
to drink thereof. DIR. johnson was n
most Unsuitable tea-drinker. Anon.
his early tea-drinking day memories
was one OF Garrack. who, though he
entertained an inordinate love for the
cheering cup, when taking tea will,
Peg Wellington scolded her Tor making
it toe strong while it was so costly,
Later, pleasant tea talks of the Doctor
describes himself as "a hardened and
shameless tea-drinker. who has for many
years diluted his meals with only the
infusion of this fascinating plant; whose
kettle has scarcely time to cool; who
with tea amuses himself in the evenings
and solaccs the midnight and welcomes
night" Who nowadays can fancy a
Mistress Piozzi making the precious
beverage for a DIR. johnson at 4 o'clock
in the morning and listening to his
morning talk without a sign Of impa-
thence or feeling bored, Il say nothing
of feeling sleepyP
The are masters in tho art
Of preparing coffee. especially the Ger.
man sardns Like tho French, they
take coffee without milk, at any timo
during the day, assisted by q cigar; cs
pecially is this mode desirable Tor tho
sedentary life. Coffee contains n sub.
stance called THEY'VE, o volatile matter
n needs to be cautious in retaining
during the process Of preparation. An
ounce of good tea contains about ten
grains Of tbieve. quite sufficient to Gre
nte very unpleasant symptoms, some
thing like over cxhilaration, or, to place
1t mildly. intoxication. Tea drinkers
can therefore calculate how much tea
to drink as from three TO four grains Of
theive are simply sufficient for . day.
and therefore three ounces Q week Il
really moro than one should consume.
A friar OF . monastry in Arabia no.
ioed that the goats were remarkably
agile and brisk after eating Of the ooffss
Tree, 30 he made his lethargic monks
lryit The success was marvellous; and
Ibis Is one OF the many assigned origins
Of the use Of the berry, which soon
found ito way to Europe.