Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-08-23
TOBACCO FOR TEA.
Why MT. Manhattan Decided to Smpios
 Only English Servants

Vbv MT Manhattan Decided to ssmpios
 Only English Servants
 paterfarnilias and his sor were le1t behind to brave the summer ln Ne" York-incidentally, likewise, to enjoy delightful bathroom, eom1oftaele beds and generous-sized sleeping cham bers. to say nothing of having the run of a large. commodious city house. lhe rest of the family had hied ltself 10 tile seashore. where the material dellghts of existence were all sacrificed to pure, braeing, health-giving ocean air. ana thus everyone was satisfied.
 Araw, hopeless greenhorn, fresh rom some unheard-of Irish county, woman as new and strange to the possibilities of civilization as could well be imagined reigned supreme over the kitchen, com bining the qualities of cook with those of cha1nbermaid and waitress @hat she didn't know would have filled whole library. The number of mistakes she could make in day was simply out side of any methods of calculation. Her grief and humility at each succeeding fault were the only things that kept her in her place, for those would have softened the heart even of Spanish gen. eral.
 The head of the house was an iryetr crate tea-drinker, and in the course or many years experience he had acquired 8 taste that was delicate to degree. lie was an authority on different crops, brands and mixtures and so particular
 4ID4 O- O rlJIp drew the beverage himself, trusting no one of his women folks at the operation. In his house he had a study in the base ment (the dining-room being the add1- ton off the parlor foor) and in the sanctunl abutting on the kitchen he had among his books and other treasures his fayorite brands of the plant of which Sydney Smith said he was glad he was not born before itwas discovered. These were all arranged in jars and labeled.
 The tastes of the son, however, were not so discriminating; almost any old tea was good enough for him. so long as it was drawn strong and served hot. So one warm afternoon when he came home with a. fresh package of smoking tobacco and a three-pound sample of English breakfast tea, both for his father, he handed them to Nora to place in the study and requested her to make him a cup of the new mixture to queneh his thirst and cool him off-upon the supposltion, probably, that like cures like With the advent of the cup that cheers pater-familias himself arrived and was thereupon asked to partal<e, which, all being ready, he was nothing loath to do. A pleasant smile of eX- peetatioa lighted up his face as he thought of the possibilities of this new brand and with the manner of a connois. seur the old boy passed the steaming cup around under his nose. But scarce ly had the first odor greeted his nostril when his smile changed to look of horror. He tasted half a spoonful and violently spat it out. '.Nora, 5 he shrieked. "what the - have you been doing to this tea?"
 Sure, sor,e said the frightened Celt, ''nothiR', sor. I just made it as 0i've seen yog.n "Taste it, grill" thundered the head of the house, and the wretehed domestic gulped down half a spoonful. Her look was something awful and her feelings worse A sicEer Irishwoman was never seen. She had brewed sev- eraI spoonfuls of pure tobacco by mis- take.
 And that is why Mr. Manhattan has ever since employed English servants in his household, flor at least" he said, ''they do know tea when they see it.'- N V rFi,,,ae