The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1884-02-22
The Deadly Cup Of Tea.

The dean of Bangor forwards for
publication full reportef his much
criticised speech on excessive tea drink
ing. He says: / am 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 us whole. The
address was delivered at public meet
ing in Bangor TO aid the movement for
Introducing practical cookery in eie-
mentary schools.
In his speech the dean said: some
times see Young men and young wo-
men, well dressed, well behaved, intel
ligent and refined in manner, but pre-
maturely old, with sunken cheeks,
stopping shoulders and toothless gums,
and say TO myself: Il suspect those
people arc poorly fed. They spend
much money on their clothes to keep
up appearances, but they are ignorant
OF the laws OF physical health. Thev
suffer from want of better food in their
homes" IfEear, hear. The origin of
the mischief is in the want of more in
telIigent.and skillful h0usewifery. Iii
woman dos not know how to cook
am. 10 mafS< the best IF the resources
within her rfach. she Tolls the Kettle
forever, ann enfeeblcs her husband
and sons by drenching them with
oceans of tea, morning, noon aad
night, G"Hear, hear" and laughter.
Iregret that the use of tea has be-
come so excessive in Wales. / 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 l had my way, there would
be very much less tea drinking than
there is among our people OF all class
es. G"Hear, hear" and laughter.
Oatmeal and milk produced, in my
opinion. strong, hardy, muscular, con-
tented, good-tempered men and wo-
men. Excessive tea drinking creates
a generation of nervous, hysterical,
discontented 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 |
cHCc. LII IdCl, S'iSpcct tHaI OScE-
much tea drinking, 10y destroying the
calmness 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 |
a flood of radicalism. Renewed laugh
ter
This bad housewifery is not only pro-
ductive of possible revolution but of |
lamentab!e 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 tine physical weakness and
nervous irritability that had theif orr
gin In the bad cookery OF al ignorant,
thriftless house end in the ruin of in
temperance and deadly disease.-Lon.
don Telegram.