The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-02-09
The Deadly Cup Of Tea.

The dean of Bangor forwards for
publication full report of his much
criticised speech on excessive tea drink
ing He says: lam quite willing to
be responsible for the words which |
uttered, but not for the sentiments at
tributed to me by critics who have
never read my speech as whole. The
address was delivered at public meet
ing in Bangor to aid the movement for
introducing practical cookery in ele-
mentary schools.
In his speech the dean said: l some
times see young men and young wo-
men, we'll dressed, well behaved, intel
ligent and refined in manner, but pre-
maturely old. with sunken cheeks,
STOPPING shoulders and toothless gums,
and I say to myself: 81 suspect those
people are poorly fed. They spend
much money on their clothes to keep
up appearances, but they are ignorant
of the laws of physical health. They
suffer from want of better food in their
homes" Hear, hear. The origin of
the mischief is in the want of more in
telligent 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
forever, and enfeebles her husband
and sons by drenching them with
oceans of tea, morning, noon and
night, r"Hear, hear" and laughter.]
regret that the use of tea has be-
come so excessive in Wales. l think
the people were in every way stronger
better and happier when they fed main
ly upon the old-fashioned sustenance
OF oatmeal and milk in their various
forms. If had my way, there would
be very much less tea drinking than
there is among our people of all class
es. ["Hear, hear" and laughter.
Oatmeal and milk produced, in my
opinion, strong, hardy, muscular, con-
tented, good-tempercd men and wo-
men. Excessive tea drinking creates
a generation of nervous, hysterical
disconnected people, always complain
ing Of the existing order of the uni
verse, scolding their neighbors and
signing after the impossible. [''Hear,
hear, and laughter Good cooking
OF more solid substances would, firm
ly believe, enable them to take far hap
pier and more correct views of exist
ence. In fact, suspect that over
much tea drinking, by destroying the
camness of the nerves, is acting as a
dangerous revolutionary force among
us. Laughter. If may say so with
out mourning the wrath OF the chair
man, will say that the torments of
bad tea seem to me to be swelling into
flood of radicalism. [Renewed laugh
ter
This bad housewifery is not only pro-
ductive of possible revolution but of
lamentable Immortality. Excessive tea
drinking. renewed thrice a 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 perpet-
ual recourse to 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 housewifery. must
be subject to the sense of sinking"
Thus the tea-kettle goes before the gin
bottle, and the physical weakness and
nervous irritability that had their ORR
gin in the bad cookery of an ignorant,
thriftless house end in the ruin of in
temperance and deadly disease. -Lon-
don TELEGRAM.