The Washington times., 1922-10-15
TheTeaRoo
Bibbers

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But they have gone out Of style.
Bibbers are 20 called for the
!. reason that they bib tea.
- =. Tea rooms are bobbing up
: everywhere. japanese, Chinese,
.Jolo, Hawaiian, Herzegovinian,
Armenian, Moravian, Mesopota-
mian, Greek, French, English and
Norwegian tea rooms, and all run
by Italians.
.-u Many bibbers Of tea get that
rayway by having been topers in the
:. old days. Others are given the
:. :: tea room habit by their physi-
clans. When q physician advises
. patient to eat very little, the
.patient accomplishes this by going
to q tea room. In no place in
- :. the world can one eat less than
:. In q tea room.
Malnutrition Is the watchword,
the slogan, the ideal.
Tea rooms are haunted by vari-
- Gus classes. Some Of them are
confirmed bibbers, while others
'-of the customers are otherwise
= .well-meaning people, who visit
- tea rooms just to do something
~-~devilish. =
Some people, Of course, say
they can bib or let It alone-that
they can take q couple Of bibs on
~ their way home after q hard days
.. work and no more. But It's the
. - same old story. The pernicious
habit fastenes itself upon them
:. and there Il no escaping its
clutches. -
- D.. Ths Eghtssers and those who
90 slumming while In the great
city visit the tea rooms in the
-. -. evening. Tho night life In tea
>" rooms d fascinating. Ono sees
fsw Of the confirmed bibbers 1t
that time. They show up in the
- - morning looking for q bracer,
..., trembling wretches, drsgged
Fl; down BY the habit.
~ There are actually places that
~~wiIl sell tea to anybody who has
~" the price to buy, no matter how
v"far gone they may Be. Very
=" soon little girls, shivering In thin
red shawls, will be standing In
front Of these places singing,
'Tsther, Dear Father, Come
Home With Ne Now; the Clock
in the Steeple Strikes One"
Going homo In the evening
with . tea breath these bibbers
hear their wives say: "There,
you have been bibbing again.
Didn't you promise me-~
Travelling around among these
dives you win hear such remarks
as these.
- He is really q good fellow at
heart. What pity he bibs."
II knew Jim when he didn't
lib drop. Look at him to-day
practically in the gutter"
"They say he has bibbed up .
r., 'ortune." -
"Joei boss told him II he took
another bit this month he was out
for good"
-. mo, I'll take q cigarette this
time. Just had a couple Of bibs
downtown"
I'm of the STUFF. Haven't
c"taken bib In two weeks."
"" "His wife was such . beautiful
little woman, too. His bibbins
has Just about killed her"
HE was cuckoo over q Broad
way blond, but she gave him the
c,,gate, and he Is bibbing to drown
Ibis sororw."
30. mo. Not another bib. You've
:. had enough"
"What . brilliant success
\ George would be II he didn't
bib."
In some Of the gilded places
tea Ii served In samovar style. II
h particularly sinful this way,
:. and II used mostly by confirmed
- tsa hounds.
Il b unnecessary to say any
thing Of the tea hsngovers on
the morning after and how they
are undermining the business
:, ,acumen Of our nation. Many of
,;I the largest concerns will not hire
Ia man who bibs even mildly.
The Demon Tea is on the ram
page and our national manhood
~ Il imperilled.
Wouldn't Be Missed.