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LEPcHAS Or THE H1rlALAXAS

the pot after brewing. ii should never
be boiled in the pot and it should be
drunk clear. for milk makes it poison.
Good tea does not need sugar. although
slice of lemon will add to the flavor.
The tea We are using comes from the
mountains nearby. 1t is black and is
fit TO drink. This is especially SO of many
varieties sold in the stores. Some of
that cured in Japan and China OF which
We consume thirty-Odd million dollars
worth every year. is made green by the
addition of cOlorinG matters and Il is
also rolled and fired in c0pper-lined ket
ties The best tea is black tea. and you
will so far before you will get better
than that raised here at Darjeeling.
You remember the temperance land
ladys remark to her bibulous boarder: Il
will sleep YOU and eat You, but I be blest
if l drink YOU. In that sense India bids
fair to soon drink the world. Her black
teas have practically monopolized the
markets Of Europe and more of them are
consumed than of the teas exported from
all other nations. A generation SO ago
about the only teas known to commerce
We're those OF Japan and China. The In
dia teas are now driving the Chinese teas
out OF the markets and Japan has to rely
almost entirely upon the United States
for the sale OF her surplus. We drink
eighty-six million pounds of tea every
year. and of this thirty-One million pounds
come from Japan and about thirty-eight
millions from China. We get only eight
millions from East India. but this amount
is increasing from year TO year. The eX-
ports of Indian teas are mostly to Europe.
They go to Great Britain and thence to
the colonies. Some are sent to the conti-
nent and big shipments are made to Aus
tralia and Canada. The British are the
greatest tea drinkers OF all mankind.
Their consumption amounts to six o. sew
en- pounds per head every year. while our
people each drink less than two pounds
and the Russians less than one. The Ger
mans and French load themselves with
coffee and wire or beer. slipping tea now
and then. The Chinese and :. japanese
drink tea throughout the day. The Chi
neSe will not drink water unless it is
boiled. and they flavor the water with tea.
The consumption of these two nations is
probably greater than that of all the rest
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observation-disclosures

much bigger than a city lot and that Of
China would not be larger than the or
binary American garden. The tea is
raised by multitude of small farmers.
each of whom works after his own rule
and in his own way. When the leaves
are picked there are traders who go
about through the tea districts and buy
UP the crops. They sell to other trrde s
and one crop may go through a half dozen
different hands before it is shipped to
Hankow. where it gets one Of the big
steamers for Europe.
Here In India the plantations are large.
Some of them have hundreds OF acres
and employ thousands of men and women
as laborers. They ere handled after bust
ness methods. The soil is studied and
carefully cultivated. At present there
is more than $1o1.OGO,OoO invested in the
business and in the neighborhood Of Geo.
900 people are employed upon the p anita
tons The area under cultivation is
steadily increasing and it is said that
the crop may be raised all along the
southern slopes of the Himalayas at an
altitude of about 1000 feet above the sea
The plantations here are 5000 or 1906
reet up and there are some tea fields
which are full hat mile above sea
level. The most of the land used is fiat
or rolling and the best soil is reddish
sandy loan with free subsoil. The
tea seeds are first planted in beds. After
OF a year they are set OFT III rows a few
feet apart. They are carefully cultivated
and trimmed, in order to make them
grow bushy. . The SOL is often top dress
ed with wood loan and artificial manures
are frequently used. AS to the dronpngs
OF cattle, none are to be had in India for
the people pick them UP and use them for
fuel After the plants are three years
old they are ready for plucking. The
leaves are carefully pulled, certain
number being left to keep the p ants
growing. 1t takes FIVE or six years for
shrub to mature and at that time it
should produce pound or more of tea
every year Some of the trees about
here are forty years old and there are
some In China whose age is SO great
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'' . one knows when they were
planted.
But LET me tell you how the tea looks in
the fields. In the plantations about here
the plants range jim height from ones
waist to his head. Some have trunks six
inches in diameter and others mere stems
The leaves are like those of the willow
tree. They smell like tea when YOU crush
them. The shrub is sCecieS Of the camel
Tia. 1t is an evergreen not unlike the maple,
and the leaves are beautiful. The plant
is supposed to have come originally from
China but there is no account Of its hav-
ing been cultivated until about 800 A. D.
1t grows wild this side of the Hima-
layas. and there are certain varieties of i.
which reach the height of small trees.
The planters are crossing the various va
rietieS in their attempts to make new
and better teas
l passed through many of these planta-
tons on my ride UP the mountains The
shrubs rise in terraces up the sides of the
hills, looking not unlike wei trimmed box
wood hedges. Here and there one sees
gayly dressed women picking the leaves,
their black skins and bright calico WINS
showing out against the green. while their
has a basket, which will hold about two
bushels, on her back. kept there by a
band which rests over the forehead. The
leaves are plucked with the hands and
thrown into the baskets. which, when full,
are carried to the factory. l am told
that the planters usually have five pick
ings a year, and the best lands they
have seven. This is far ahead of China
and Japan. where the shrub that will
yield three pickings is good.
The tea planters here are chiefly Brit
ish. Many of the estates are owned by
companies. The planters live in fine bun
galOws surrounded by lawns and gardens
Many of them are the second sons of no.
BILE families in England.
The processes or making tea in India
are different from those of Japan and
China. In the latter countries nearly
everything is done by hand and the meth
DDS are insanitary to an extreme In
China the leaves are sorted ny women
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of the world put together, but for the
lack of statistics no one knows What it Is.
The exports of Indian tea now amount
to over 3oO,HO0oO pounds per year. OF
this more than 2CO OOOCO0 pounds are
from Hindustan and about 10000, 900
pounds from the Island of Ceylon, over
the way. The trade has grown up with
IN the past thirty years and it is largely
was here twenty years ago 1t was In its
infancy and the planters were discussing
how they could get the Am arican market.
They concluded to advertise in the news
papers and they raised a fund to begin
that work in Europe and the United
States. At the same time they organized
a sales bureau and they saw to it that
CeylOn and Indian teas could be had in all
the large stores. and that they were on
tap at every state and national exposition.
AS result the demand for these teas
steadily grew. and today their exports are
almost twice those of China and more
than five times those of Japan Within
the last few years the East Indian plant
ers have decided to enter the green tea
markets. and they are row advertising
such varieties in the same way. Cevlon
alone has already spent in the neighbor-
hood of S1.OO0.0O0 on green tea inforna-
ton. with such a result that the Chinese
and Japanese are alarmed, fearing that
they may lose this trade, of which they
stl have the monopoly
The Ceylon planters have been giving
bounties Of from > to Z cents a pound
rpo' all green tea exported, and they
have increased their crop within the past
few years. that II now amounts to
millions Of pounds. 1 understand that
the Chinese government Is alarmed at
the situation and that the Chinese tea
planters recently sent a commission to
India and Ceylon to investigate tea con-
ditions and the tea-curng processes.
have travelled extensively through the
tea fields of Japan and China and l know
something about them. The methods of
cultivation and curing are far different
there than they are on these big 'planta-
tionS of Hindustan. In the former coun-
tries the tea is raised in small patches.
The ordinary tea garden of Japan is not
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seems to care about are his guns and his
books.
Inc Roumanian people are used to be-
ing very near 10 their sovereign. who, be-
Tore he was so intirIn, always went about
among them and had a kind word for the
nufhoiest Ferdinand apparently dislikes
them. Recently, when his eldest son.
Caro-. a boy of about fifteen. was made an
olncer In the army, people crowded to
Sinaia 10 See the ceremony. Ferdinand
noticed that the crowd. which was per-
1ectly orderly, pressed little too near the
royal party. Instead of telling one of the
soldiers there for that purpose to make
them fall back, he rushed out among them
himself and wildly waved his arms, 'shoo-
ing them back like so many chickens.
The people angrily remarked that their
future king only showed himself among
them on one occasion. and that was in
order to drive them from him.
He gives them another cause for COM
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WEIfH1rf TEA In HANKow

and girls and the moisture is pressed out
OF them by treading them with bare feet
They are rolled over and over on bamboo
trays with the hand and are fired in red
hot pans by half-naked, perSpiring work
men.
1t is the same in Japan. L once visited
a large firing establishment at one Of
the ports where they were preparing
green tea for the American market They
were curing it by what is known as pam
hiring Imagine long row of ovens
filled with copper pans each twenty
inches wide and thirty inches deep.
The tops Of the ovens were at
about the height of q, mans waist or
the contents about with the hands.
There were at least thirty of these pans,
and over each bent a japanese woman
her dress pulled down to her waist and
the upper part of her body as bare as
the Venus de Medici. Each was stirring
and kneading and rolling the drying tea.
The fires were hot and the steam rose.
Pearl drops OF perspiration stood out
upon the backs and busts of the workers.
and It seemed to me as though the tea
might be brewed by the sweat 1t took
those women almost an hour to finish
each lot and after that the teas were set
up by hand.
Here in India the tea is all rolled by
II
factories, where the leaves are withered
and rolled between steel plates so care
fully graduated that they do not injure
the tea. The drying is done bv hot
blasts and revolving fans, and the re-
suit is that the tea comes out perfect
~ pure and clean. 1t is carefully graded
and hacked while warm in lead lined
chests for shipment abroad
The chief tea drinkers of Asia are
north of the Himalaya mountains. On
the other side OF these hills the natives
soak themselves in tea, and in Tibet
and the other Asia.ic highlands the
people make tea soup, mixing the brew
with milk. butter and other fats. Down
here in Hindustan the Hindoos drink
almost no tea. and the Mohammedans
but little. The custom is increasing
somewhat among the townspeople, but
there are millions in India who have
never seen i tea leaf or slipped a tea
cup. Over in Burma they have a way
of picking the leaves Of the tea plant
and eating them for dessert, We eat
cheese The leaves are thrown into
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PLEASING HER SUBJECTS.

on all occasions when they appear in
public dresses her children and herself
in the national costume.
Her great fear is that she will grow
stout but as one OF the court ladies
told the writer, there is little danger
of it, as she is always moving about
No matter how bad the weather, she
rides out in the mountains, accom-
panied by one lady and a groom. Now
she has begun to walk so as to remain
slender, but this is quite a new depar-
ture. She is very fopa of motoring and
prefers to- be her own chauffeur. Her
liveliness and gayety may sometimes
scandalze the old 'courtiers, but there
seems to he a great love for her among
all classes. She will stop her horse or
car on the road and talk to a passing
peasant asking how his farm is and
what his wife and family are doing.
She visits the gentry around Sinaia in
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great that all the men who know her
fall in love with ner She makes con-
quests wherever she goes and has no
greater admirer than the old king who
built her the villa at Sinaia.
Princess Marie is excessively fond of
Americans and Interested in their COM
try. Some year 20 she half promised
to visit the United states, and there is
little doubt that she would do so if
she We're free. but the crown prince is
opposed to the project.
although she will be a very different
queen from Carmen Sylvia. there is
little doubt of her popularity among
court things are different. The people
nearest the throne have grown old with
King Carol and Queen Carmen Sylvia,
and the gayety of the princess seems a
little shocking to them. They cannot
understand why she will fiirt with old
Russian or German generals who come
to visit the country, and amuse them
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iTeds OF tea Plantations all around me
and millions OF pounds OF their product
ire annually shipped from here to ether
33rts Of the world
Before / begin let us start the water
oriiing- It should be fresh from the
:pTing and should not bubble over ten
minutes before used for brewing. We
viii put the tea in a porcelain pot and
81 the hot water remain upon il not more
nan eight minutes and it will then be
'eady for drinking. Tea should never
5uch metal and IL should not stand in
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with gay chatter They also. to tell
the truth. think her friendship with
rich Americans is little ''infra dig
Some Of them even go so far as to be
shocked at the way in which she scours
the mountains in all weathers. They
would as soon think of flying as of
riding about in the rain. let alone in
the snow.
she cannot be a poetesS like our
dear queen" remarked one old lady,
well known in Bucharest society, but
she might be like a real princess. She
walks about in short skirts and drives
a motor car herself. 1t is most extra
ordinary.
Princess Marie is n most devoted
mother to her children. who live a
healthy, outdoor life. She tells a - ~
of. her grandmother, Queen Victoria,
which shows how quietly that great
woman lived.
She, was the most innocent woman
L ever knew says the princess. For
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forty years after her husbands death
she refused to see a play. But at last
We persuaded her TO hear the opera
Carmen A large company came down
To Balnoral. and. TO our relief, the
queen seemed most interested. AS the
action went on and Carmen quarreled
with her lover, Don Jose. she turned
round to me ard said, My dear. she
doesn't seem To he very nice to this
man she is going 10 marry and yet, IL
was hard for me. a young woman. To
tell my grandmother of eighty that
Don Jose was bu. her lover She never
could see these things"
It is fadt that Queen Nictoria's
court has the reputation of having been
the purest court in Europe. There
We're far fewer bad influences at work
there than Fat any other court in
Europe" says Princess Marie.
Copyright in the United States and Great Britain
by Curtis Brown. All rights strictly reservedl
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ONE take a cup of
tea with me this
bright S u n d a Y
morning while |
tell you how this
s II + II l., " h | C h
cheers but does not
inebriate, is grown
out here in the
HimaiayG mCun-
tainS, on the Oppo-
side of the globe.
There are nun
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Still another cause for complain. though
it seems but trivial one is that this
prince declines to be photographed. His
wife's and his childre7s photographs are
to be seen in plenty in more than one
shop in Bucharest. but he refuses to be
taken. He is tall. soldierly looking man
of forty-four, with a long beard and a
stiff figure. If rumor he true, his tastes
are exceedingly German and he dislikes
anything Roumanian. In saying this a
native of the country will add
I'VE often feel inclined to ask him why,
since he dislikes US and our country so
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English Princess Popular Her Husband Unpopular Be Next Quee

One is that he takes no apparent interest
IN them or in their public affairs. Politics,
they complain, have no charms for him.
Shut up in his villa at Sinaa or his apart
ments in Bucharest, he fails to show HIM
self to any but those nearest him. The
army and navy are alike matters of in
dlference to him. The only things he
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plant and that is the way III which he
holds himself aloof from charitable en-
terprises. The present king and queen
have always taken the liveliest possible
interest in the poor and infirm. spending
very large sums OF money and giving up
very much of their valuable time for the
purpose. But the future sovereign does
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y view of the pre-
ca-ioUs state OF
King Carols health
both the Eoumar-
ian people and the
foreign diplomats
in this gay little
capital are busy
discussing the per-
Sonal:ty OF the
Crown Prince Fer
dinand, who will
succeed his uncle
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D. the throne. But II is q curious fact
hat just as the present Queen of Rou-
mania Carmen sylvia" is far better
Known to the world than her husband, so
he gossips are talking far more today
,bout the Crown Princess Marie than of
ferdinand.
III strong contrast 10 the figure OF Car
Hcn sylvia. OF, as she is known among
lcr own people. Elisaveta, are those of
Ferdinand and his wife. Princess Marie.
laughter OF Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
Sing Carol and Queen Elisaveta are re-
erred as well loved by AL their sub
ects. One hears far more Of Queen Eli
.aveta, in Roumania, than of King Carol,
'or her fame seems 10 have eclipsed his.
Jne cannot help thinking that were they
plain folk their friends would talk of
i'm as Mrs Smiths husband" But
King Carol has been good king and has
lone much for ROumania since the day in
1878 when the Berlin congress acknowl-
edged him king OF the country which
aad just freed itself from the Turkish
yoke and had to begin. as it Were, from
.he beginning
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ing that the peasants in some parts are
beginning to wear ordinary clothes, does
her best to encourage them in the prep
aratiOn and wearing of their national
costumes. She offers prizes for the gar
mentS which are embroidered best and
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perfectly simple way, taking her chill
dren to tea with them.
In Bucharest she takes great interest
in a children's creche and orphanage.
in which she eXpends much time and
money. Her charm of manner is SO
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Menu, sunday. May Is
BREAKFAST.
n4l-A<l II p n D. n Rk~

Menu, Sunday, May IL
BREAKFAST.
Baked Rhubarb.
Cereal.
OmeIette. Fried Mush with Syrup.
Coffee.
Dinner.
Fileted AnchOyies with Lemon
and Parsley.
Radishes. Young Onions.
Vegetable Soup.
Chicken Fr1cassee with Rice
Border.
Mashed Potatoes. Oyster Plant.
Lettuce Salad with Peanut Butter
Crisps.
Pineapple TapiOca.
Coffee.
Supper.
Individual Strawberry ShOrtcakes
with Cream.
Bread and Butter. Cream Cheese.
Custard. Sponge Cake
Tea.
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Homemade Cleansing Fluid.

In the first place. let every boy learn
To brush and clean his own clothes
\ splendid cleansing fluid that can pe
made at home, bottled and kept on hand
fo- instant use is made in this way: Gu;
fire a quarter pound white CASTLE soap.
Put in an earthen basin and pour over
it one quart of warm soft water. Let
stand overnight, then put on the back Of
the stove where it will dissolve but net
boil. Have ready -four or five quarts rain
or soft water. add the soap and stir
through it. Then add one ounce liquid
ammonia, one-Quarter ounce spirits or
wine and one ounce ether. Shake and
bottle. To be shaken before using. Make
a little roll of black cioth-a stocking leg
is best and fasten on it a loop OF mar
row black braid. Hang over the neck
of the tightly corked bottle and keep in
the boys closet or bathroom, where ne
can help himself to it quickly. With
good clothesbrush of his very own and
the bottle of cleansing fluid at hand
there will be no excuse for spotted gar
mpnfS
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King Carol was born Hohenzollern and
as consort a grand duchess of Vienna
Some of their subjects complain that
,Thi,e encoura ging the development OF the
country he has used foreigners rather
han. Roumanians to help him. But not
everybody says this. and he is exceedingly
popular even with those who do Not so
Prince Ferdinand, King Carols nephew,
who Is said to be thoroughly Teutonic in
his sympathies. and his future subjects
have one or two grievances against him.
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English Cloth Balls.

A little different is the English method
Of using homemade cloth balls to re-
move grease. Moisten a half pound OF
dry fuliers earth in little lemon juice.
Add a half ounce of finely pulverized
oearl ash and work it into thick paste.
Roll into small balls and dry in the sun
or near the fire. In a few hours they will
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DRINCESS MARIE Some
j times Shocks the Old
Ladies Who Have Waited on
Queen Carmen Sylvia by Her
Unconventional Ways, But
the People Like Her as Much
as They Dislike Her Hus-
band Crown Prince Too
Much of a German for the
Gay Roumanians, and They
Compare Him to His Dis
advantage With Old King
Carol, Who Always Has a
Joke and a Kind Word for
the Poorest Peasant.
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A DVERTISING Which

A DVERTISING Which
"A Paid - Tea Raising in
China and India - Hand
Labor Versus Machinery
a Visit to the Plantations
The Hindoos as Tea Drink
ers - Something About the
Picked Teas of Burma-The
Tea Soup of Theta Visit
to Russian Tea Factory
Where Millions of Tea Bricks
Are Made.
Copyright. 1910. hy Frank G. Carpenter,
?ecial Correspondence OF The Star.
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Household Hints.

be ready for use. When needed moisten
the spot with warm water and rub with
the balls. Place in the sun to dry and
then brush off the powder or wash IL
necessary.
To Clean Straw Hats.
Last summer straw hats can be reno
waited at home with good results Re-
move bands or trimming and brush thor
Oughly. Squeeze the juice from two lem
ons in a saucer, place the hat on table
protected by several thicknesses of brown
paper, sprinkle with powdered sulphur,
dip nail brush in the lemon juice and
scour. Go over the entire surface OF the
hat i'm this way, then rinse of with cold
water and scrub with a clean brush, in
order To remove every vestige OF the sui
phur. Wipe dry with clean cloth, put
into shape and place in the air, not sun,
to dry. If the hat has stiff brifn place
a sheet of white paper on the table
lay the hat on it. then put strips OF pa
per around the brim and set three or
four laundry irons on il close up to the
body protecting the crown with paper
from contact with the irons. Leave su
night.