Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-05-29
1LA.DRlNKING.

IL IL generally recognized that tea.
drinking has become vice In Eng.
laud--tnnt -, that tho use Of the
beverage IL now so immodorate that II
IL undermining the health Of the nation
70 an extent but little behind the work
" the peer can. Ia the United States
the women afn closely following Ia the
wake Of theig English sisters, aud by
comparison with other family pfovIs.
ions the consumption Of tea Is onor.
mgus.
For some timo past Mics winiirud
Ellis, the prominent English hygienlsi,
has been cndcavoring 10 check this
tendency to misery and destruction
among hor couu,rywomon, but with
such poor success that she IL
about 10 give u up ~ a
hopeless task. 10 was conclusivoly
shown that the Indigestion and
a. Unla from which wotk.girls and
servants 10 Britain suffer 10 chiefly
due 10 inoriiuato tea consumption. In
the slate qunrfios At Mcflone,h. IN
Wales, Il was demonstrated also that
tue miserable condition Of both tho
men und women Of the district was
due principally to the excessive use Of
tea.
Uuder there circumstances Mis-,
Ellis has enduAvored 10 Introduce n
change la tho manner Of life In this
respect. She Instituted cookery classes
IA which nutritious foods were subi,i.
tuted TOT the tea, aud other aud health.
ful drinks provided, without increasing
the expense to the people. The meals
were roIished, but Il WAS found i'm.
possible TO wean the people from tea.
drinking because the appetite Tor the
beverage pfasiically had made them
slaves. They preferred 10 DO without
more nuU .tlou' food rather than aban.
don it. Tho teapot therefore remains
Boa usu an day lous appearing At every
meal, bringing with II ill health Ani
suffering which is shortening the lives
Of the present generation and iuoroas.
ing the lIIs Of the next
The iulrIiua,o usB OF toa In this
section OF Country also 10 working sefl.
Gus iiJu,y. The same unhenlthiul
effects which mark IT, path la Britain
are evident 10 u considerable extent
here Ia the evils " indigestion aud a
morbid dlmiuutlou Of blood with which
no many persons, especially females,
are affected. u. course there are other
causes which produce These Ills In
numerous instances, but their eXia.
tonuo among tea uriukvrs no doubt
could Boz lrcelhcfe,as In Great Britain,
to aporularaud onzlaying beverage. lts
use not only H rendering the lives Of
those who gulp down from one to half
a uuzsu cups 0i toa daily when there ~
no necessity Tor &, auI speeding them
toward the grave faster than there h
occasion Tor, Uut is having sllll mjrs
disastrous elect Boo reducing vitality
among tnu offspring %, such parents.
There Is much salL auI done, anu
properly BIO, against iuuuitary rcIula.
| ulus which eussuder disease aud in.
vito uuumgIy death. An equal need
exists Tor d crusade against tho tea.
drinking vice. 10 BE- o. question IA
which m0Ihers especially arc deeply
Interested aut which iu this con-.
muuIly they could correct II they
would, loo view OF demonsira,.
cd uct a TO the eject Of the
habit referred TO, 1t IA timely
Tor many mothers who have laid
lleir little ones iu the quio, Graveyard,
uoyeg again Go behold them In mortal.
| ity, 60 as5 themselves 10 what extent
they are tuspousible tor the irrepamble
i1ls they have sustained. Aud when
. tluy have answered the question IN no.
| n1tlHlca with reason aud the facts in
.ho ease, DO win be intcretting to note
whpJiunlencB tho anguish, the sor.
rows and tho huarlaohei which they
hays tulgrei by reason Of the lose Will
nave in inducing these mothers to
take o determined stand 50 Tar a. they