Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-09
TEE DEADLY CUP OF TEA.
IN English Clergyman se1so Thinks the Tea
Kettle Leads to the Gin Bottle.
[London TELEGRAPH.

Kettle Leads to the Gin Bottle.
London Telegraph
The Dean of Bangor forwards for publ
cation full report of his much criticised
speech on excessive tea drinking. He says:
81 am quite willing to be responsible for
the words which uttered, bat not for the
sentiments attributed to me by critics who
have never read my speech as whole.
The addresses was delivered at public
meeting in Bangor, held on the 9Th inst,
to aid the movement for introducing prac-
tical cookery in elementary schools.
In his speech the dean said: some
times see young men and young women.
we'll dressed. we'll behaved, intelligent and
refined in manner, but prematurely old,
with sunken cheeks, STOPPING shoulders,
and too!hless gums, and say to myself,
II suspect these people are badly fed.
They spend much money on their clothes
TO keep up appearances, but they are ig-
norant of the laws of physical health. They
suffer for the want of better food in thsir
homes" Hear, hear. The origin of the
mischief is in the want of more intelli-
gent and skillful housewifery. If woman
does not know how to cook and to
make the best of the resources
within her reach, she boils the kettle for.
ever, and enfeebles her husband and SONS
by drenching them with oceans of tea,
morning, noon, and night. clear, hear"
and laughter.
regret that the use of tea has become
so excessive in Wales. I think the people
were in every way stronger. better and
happier when they led mainly upon the
old-fashioned sustenance of oatmeal and
milk in their various forms. If I had my
way, there would be very much less tea
drinking than there is among our people
of all Glasses. Clear, hear" and laugh
teri Oatmeal and milk produced, in nv
opinion, strong, hardy, muscular, content
ed, good-tempered men and women. Ex-
cessive tea drinking creates q generation
of nervous, hysterical, discontinued people
always complaining of the existing order
of the universe, scolding their neighbors,
and signing after the impossible. Clear
hear" and laughter. Good cooking of
Euors ssssia aIsA asa nces would, firmly be
Heve, enable them to take far happier and
more correct views of existence. In
fact, I suspect that over-muoh
tea drinking, by destroying the
oalmness of the nerves, is acting
as dangerous revolutionary force among
Us. Laughter. If 1 may say so without
mourning the wrath of the chairman,
will say that the torrents of bad tea seem
TO me to be swelling into food of radi-
calism. Renewed laughter.
This bad housewifery is not only pro.
dRssive ef possible revolution, but of Ia
mentable immortality. Excessive tea
drinking, renewed thrice day, and other
forms of bad feeding make both men and
women feel weak. What is the result?
You will remember that when
Mrs. Brown, On her way to
Brighton, felt again and again what
she called "a sinking" she had perpetual
recourse to q certain bottle, which in the
long run did her no good, but made her
sink more. Laughter. a badly fed
population, suffering from the effects of
poor housewifsry, must be subject to the
sense of Sinking" Thus the tea kettle
goes before the gin bottle, and the phys
ical weakness and nervous irritabillty that
had their origin in the bad cookery of an
ignorant, thriftIess housewife, end in the
ruin of incompetence and deadly disease.