The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-05-07
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IN THE SIMPLE LIFE,
A True Tale of .the Coming of TIL
leul" to Paris.

| 1T sounds like The Coming of Ar
| thur or some other Tennysonian thing
| but appears to be prophecy Wait g
little, for it is rather long story, II
seems And now the speakers pretty
head bent again over the closely writ
/, ten pages of Il foreign letter with the
Paris postmark. Wagner is only an
other phase of much the same thing.
lhe antidote that we all need is here.
1t is "tileul.' Her guest replied:
S'TilleuT means nothing to me but
linden tree. 'Unter deA linden
would mean afternoon coffee instead
Of tea and lnucn the same effect on the
nerves. But l will wait till you Olsen
tangle whatever I am to lie taught
from Che longest letter | have ever
seen. l did not know that ehis genera
ton held anybody who could eds@ 50
many pages.~
sThere is not one too many, fR il
tells me how The simple life has come
to Paris, not 70 the clothes as vet. kfM
to the Wearers. For the ParisianS
had sought 70 be English here and
there and drunk tea till they had no di-
gestion left and nervous attacks were
the order Of the day FOR all of them. I
was there when everybody was taking
o'clock tea az Paris bars You Know
yourself they are really more like de-
lightful parlors than bars, for they had
soft, brilliant carpets, flowers every
ND nd ir,
with charming little tables and egg
shell china FOR the o'clock tea. Let
me read you what has come Of il:
Ex& Tea, Enter Tilleul
~'All that singular burst of freedom
summed up in tea at the bars is over.
Every hotel and cafe has it's tea room
now, but tea no longer, since French
insist it Is the cause, in part
certainly, Of neurasthenia, which all
dread. 1t is tilleul they drink. Not at
all the old form, the "quatre fleurs,''
smelling like new mown hay and tast-
ing abominabie, nor the large leafed
tilleul, but the genuine silvered tilleul.
the hungarian lime or linden, young
leaves and blossoms, dried and treated
like tea, the infusion made with fresh
~ boiled water. 1t looks precisely like
tea with little blossoms intermixed. To
the "Quatre feurs'' and the large leav-
ed tilleul they added orange flower wa
ter and made mess much worse than
our grandmothers' herb teas. But tilleul
Is as innocent as catnip; wouldn't harm
a baby. It is also. SO authorities say
antispasmodic and sudorifc
the eXcitable Partisan. The singular
fact is that men and women alike order
it, and also that excessive wine drink
ing has gone out. save for here and
there an old fashioned Partisan diner
)r some foreigner
Wave Is Passing Over Society.
These facts are not Of my cleaning. |
but impaired to me by our Old friend |
NJ. Willard, who watches each day as |
f it We're to hold a revelation. "Some- !
hing is happening, but I know not |
what as YETI he says. "a wave is |
passing over society. electric in its |
quality and transferred as silently to |
Ill. People do not talk about it. but |
one sees them taking on new
Methods. 1t is the women who lead in !
t, and with us our women are the real
'ulers of society. When they adopt !
illeul, one may be sure miracle has
begun, and who knows what may fol
ow?' '"-Helen Campbell in Boston
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