Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-25


Indian rajah, Russian prince, English
duke American millionaire, Indian
street-juggler, morjik and cockney and
New York East-sider-with them all
the cup of tea is common indulgence
Recently this habit has called forth
columns of protest against its menace
to the public health, and columns of re.
plies in defense of the cup that cheers
but not inebriates.' With all the dis
cussion, the tea drinking has gone
steadily on, though America is far from
the head Of the list in this respect. or
the worlds total consumption, the
Chinese drink two billion pounds, leav
ing five hundred million pounds for the
rest of the world. Great Britain uses
two hundred and fifty million, or as
much as all the other countries outside
of China put together, and eighty-six
per cent of Great Britain's supply
comes from her own possessions, Cey-
lon and India. The individual Eng
lishman drinks as much tea as the
Chinaman, for in both countries 1t is
liked so well that enough is consumed
to amount to about six pounds year
for every man, woman and child.
Just how the Chinaman gets away
with the eighteen hundred cups that
his six pounds should give him no one
knows, for in spite of Boxer wars and
missionaries thereallife ofthecelestial
kingdom is still hidden from the occi-
dental, but in England the tea drinking
is done by keeping steadily at 1t from
dawn to bedtime. The Englishman
who can afford 1t has tea served TO him
before he Is out of bed, and the poorest
and hardest-worked clerk would bit
terly resent the loss of his afternoon
cup. The more excitable American,
who contents himself with one pound a
year, is forced to attribute the endur-
ance of his transatlantic cousins
nerves to the climate" which at
pinch can be made to cover amultitude
Of weaknesses.
Burt Engishmen and Cinnamon like
are outclassed by theAustralian bush.
whacker withhis annual ration of sew
en- and half pounds. This is not so
surprising, for observation-disclosures
his provenjer with him, and every our
of-door expert knows what an ever
present help a cup OF tea is. Expert
enced mountaineers on long climbs In
the Alps prefer cold tea to any other
beverage and the woods are literally
full Of II during the camping season.
only in France, the land of coffee and
absinthe and always antagonistic to
its ancient enemy peridious Albion,
is tea comparatively unpopular for
the French use only twentieth OF
pound apiece.
While the unitedStates. as whole,
occupies no exalted place in the list of
tea-consuming countries, the tenement
house jewellers of the east side are sec
ond to none in their devotion to the
herb. Here the pot OF tea spends the
day boiling on the top of the kitchen
stove, and tea-drinking accounts foi
much of the Illness to be found in the
district-not because tea is necessarily
injurious, but because it is badly made
and used to take the place of nourish,
ing food,
AS nation. Americans are accused
OF bad tea-making, but, at least, they
are not so from lack of advice. Ac>
cording to the recommendations of no
less an expert than the president oil
the National Tea Growers association,
tea-making Is an exact science from
the rules of which no deviation is pos
cihlo u,ithout lica raSu1te Tho
water, always to be drawn fresh from
the faucet, should be allowed to boil
furiously. but not so long that Its gases
may be exhausted. After being poured
on the leaves. the boiling water must
be allowed to remain for not less than
seven minutes or more than ten; after
which 1t should be poured off into
another heated vessel. One teaspoon,
full of tea is sufficient for one cup.
There are scientific reasons for these
stipulations, the neglect of any one OF
which means the ruin of the whole
produce. II the tea draws" for less
than seven minutes, the them fails TO
appear, and them Is the whole raison
d'etre of tea-its tonic. the latent
good that many tea-drinker gets
nothing OF. II the tea drawsmore than
ten minutes, out comes the evil that
is in 1.-THE deadly tannin, responsible
for so much neurasthena and diges
tive arrangements.
With the teapot simmering all day
long, the noxious tannin has abundant
opportunity to make its appearance
One OF the first effects is not alto
gether displeasing to the average in
habitant of a city tenement, for i
kills the appetite for solid food. Tea
then, with slice or two of bread be
comes in very many cases the chic
staple of diet. Deliberately, sometime
the poor take to tea, because they hav
learned its comforting influence upol
the appetite, and argue from that it
satisfying properties.
Remarkably far reaching are tn
physical effects of such diet. Sor
eyes, the average layman would not, 4
all probability, think of attribNing I
tea, but the connection between tn
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