Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-12-25
JAeLEss BOOZE.
The Merits of New Cup, Which
Cheers, but Does Not lnebriate.

I
! A beverage has been found that
threatens to take the place of beer
among the hard working classes and
do away with tea, coffee and other
brain stimulants used by students.
brain workers. nurses and other per-
sons VINO are required to remain alert
and active during long periods.
! This beverage is highly stimulating
non alcoholic, Notwithstanding and a
nerve builder and a nerve strengthened,
| instead of destroyer, as is the case
with tea, alcohol and coffee. 1t has
already been introduced into England.
'Yerbe mate" or simply mate" is
! the name of this wonderful drink and
| it has been used in one of its forms for
some time in Paraguay and Argentina.
| The beverage is brewed from the dried
| leaves of the lex, and can be prepared
and sold in bottles to suit the partic-
ular taste of the consumer, or made at
home like tea or coffee.
! Mate can be prepared by making a
strong or weak infusion of the leaves
of the lex after the customary fash
ion of making tea. In Argentina
and Paraguay it is the whole stay of
the working man, who likes it so well
| that he takes no breakfast till noon
supporting himself now ami then from
his mate bottle. He can work hard all
day long on this one meal, reinforced
by the stimulating and refreshing pow
er of the infusion.
Mate can be drunk hot or cold. it
can be taken with cream and sugar,
/ like tea or coffee and it can be used
| straight" which seems by far the best
way of using it. Plain mate is quite
bitter, and, like beer it is an acquired
taste. The first sip gives a distinctly
bitter taste, and the drinker sets down
his glass with a wry face. Presently,
as soon as the bitter effects wear off,
| the imbiber has a pleasant recollection
of the sensation. BY this time the
powerful stimulating property of the
drink has begun to work and the
drinker feels like taking another sip.
Mate makes the user of it feel good"
makes him look with a brighter eye on
the dark side of life, makes him forget
his troubles for the moment, and, best
of ALL unlike beer it makes him feel
like working or doing something with
his brains or his hands instead of loaf
ing or gossiping.
Chemists who have analysed mate
say that it is perfectly harmless. 1t
| has only the smallest percentage of
caffeine and volatile oils, and it never
leaves bad after effect. Even when
the drinker has a bad stomach or
disordered nerves the consumption of
mate is not followed by unpleasant
| feelings.
When the mate habit is acquired the
drinker is apt to indulge himself freely
even when there is no need of stimula
ton. Like the alcohol drinker. he talk
es the beverage for its effect" Some
times he gets to be a regular mate
drunkard. but, wonderful to say, this
beneficient drug has no sting, it's only
effect being that of making the drunk
ard a busy. industrious and hopeful
man, who gets more out of life for
himself and his fellows than the ordi-
nary man who depends on his own
body for stimulation.
In q word. mate cannot be abused
any more than water, and there are
comparatively few who take it in large
quantities for the mere sake OF the
stimulation. 1t can be drunk in a weak
infusion at meals just like bee
tea or coffee and the taste is sure TO be
even more pleasant than that OF any
Of these beverages.
The effects of mate have been tried
with the most happy results in London
hospitals. Physicians and nurses who
have used it say it has solved the prob
lem of how to make long and contin-
ued working and watching easy and
light. Nurses and physicians IN these
hospitals aver that a bottle of the
tonous though active, duties into POSI-
| straight" mate converts their mon
tive pleasure. Sleeplessness is BAN
ished, and interest in common hum
| &c hStinpneR
from mate for a short time is followed
by normal appetite for food and sleep,
and the WORKER can 81 to bed looking
fIrWard To bright and chee~Iul MOI =
row.
But perhaps the most saving quality
that mate Las is its chelDncss. The
lex grows an eXuberant quantity in
South America, and many species Of
it grow in the United States, BIZ i.
remains to be seen whether a good
beverage can be got out of the domest-
ic plant. Its great cheapness makes it
easily purcnaCable by the l1horing man
and by the hordes of workers in big
cities who daily patronize saloons at
the noon day hour.
Bishop Fallows a few years ago in
troduced into Chicago the British sub
stitute for beer, which was sold in a
temperance saloon in washington
street, but the experiment was a fail
ure because the beer, while tasting like
common beer. had no stimulating pow
er and left the drinker of it quite as
pessimistic as he was before tossed off
his foaming glass. 1t is the stimulation
the beer drinker is after and not the
taste. But mate has both taste and
stimulation, and when once drunk il
sets up the habit and thus cuts the
ground from under the feet of the beer
or whiskey habit.
1t also reduces the desire for tea and
coffee, either Of which, according 10
medical men is detrimental IL
health, even moro so than tempe:ats
drinking of alcohol. Mate also reduces
the desire for tobacco, because of its
highly stimulative action. Men use
tobacco for it's stimulating, and not
for it's narcotic effect This is partic-
, ularly true of brain workers. But
while tobacco stimulates the brain and
the intellect and makes them both
quick and clear mate has also this eff