The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-02-28
Hotel Bars Changed Into
 Tea Rooms

Some "wag' has facetious1y re- marked that if one should cut an Eng Iishnan's arm it would bleed tea. This may be a far?-fetched statement, but it is none the less true that in England, Ireland and Scotland tea drinking is universal ,and has become a sort of national institution. To the tverage Britisher the belief of tea drinking ever deteriorating. so that 1t should become a beverage for ladies only is unthinkable. It is not surpr1s- ing that the Briton who drinks nearly seven pounds of tea per annum knows the value of a good, bad and indifer- ent tea upon the system. The same is true cf the Austrian, for the sturdy Anzac consumes eight pounds of tea a year, and of the Canadian who drinks five pounds a year.
 Against those figures you have but to krow that the American dr1nks put one pound per capita; to see how nttIe the average Yankee knows about 1he delicious beverage. But such Is not the case. One reason why the per capita Of tea consumption in the Unit ed States remains almost stationary perhaps is the fact that there IS so eating the consumer on the benefits of tea drinking" We have yet to learn that tea, whether taken as part of a meal acts on the digestive organs purely as stimulant to the heart, the brain and the kidneys increasing the functions cf each of these organs.
 Dr. William Brady, writing to the Brooklyn, N. Y, Daily Eagle, says: If taken as a beverage, with or With out sugar and milk, 1t will practically never do any grown person any harm. As a beverage with meals or before or after the food tea will aid digestion and is q tbenefiica1 habit
 If any further argument was nec- essary or desirable in proof of the merits of the delicious beverage, we have but to turn to Donald B. Me Milan, the noted Arctic explorer, who with Pcary made that famous dash making a trip to Eaffin Land, where for the first time in 100 years he will try to gain passage through the Fury and Hccla Straights.
 Mir. McMillan says: "Our very best work in the nOrthsrn regions is done with plenty of good, hot tea and not with cocoa, coffee or any other drink. It has been the same from the early days of Arctic history, as shown by numerous references all through my library. For cold work and hard work and physical endurance with the dog team, there is no drink so valua- ble as tea, and the men demand it and must have it. It somehow has the faculty of getting under the skin and driving out that chill death-like, lethargic, frozen feeling that is in describable.''
 The transformation of the hotel
 
 fnvaria'ble inebriation, into a tea room is to be noted frequently in high class hotels, while in many of them the bar fittings have been retained and adapted to the new requirements
 ApTopos of this one writer says: ..It is noted by observant travellers that a growing army of men are to be noted frequently in high class hotels, while in many of them the bar fit tnigs have been retained and adapted to the new requirements.
 Apropos of this one writer says: ''It is noted by observant travellers that a growing army of men are to be seen dropping in to a hotel tea room for refreshments on their way home from business" The same authority says that From this it is only a step to afternoon tea in the business offices and factories-a custom that the Eng hsh have found to be exceedingly beneficial In keeping up the morale of the workers when the mid-after- noon fatigue begins to interfere with efficiency
 To the average person the tradi- t1ons about tea center in Japan and China where 1t is made, so to speak part of their religion and tphiloso- pEy and ceremonial courtesy, but af- ter all it is the one traditional GUS tom that the west and the east share on equal terms. Naturally it has become a sort of open door between the Orient and the Occident. It is interesting just here to note that the con- cerning tea appears to be an Arabian compilation dating from AD $50. The passage, as it appears in the Chinese Repository 1, 12, runs as follows: self the revenues which arise from a certain herb which they drink with hot water, and of which great quan- titles are sold in all the cities to the sah, and it is a shrub more bushv than the pome granate tree and Of a more taking smell: Their way is to poil the water. which they pour upon this leaf, and this drink cures all sorts of diseases.
 One or two cups of this decoction taken on an empty stomach removes fever. headache, stomache, pain in inc side or in the joints, and it should be taken as hot as you can bear it.
 Strangely enough, in view of the patriotic warfare of century and a half ago, engendered Tn Boston Harbor, the hub, of all places in the United States should nave been selected as the central headquarters in America for what lfss now become interna tionally famous as the Salada Tea company
 The amazing growth and consump- tion of Sa1ada tea is emphasized bv the fact that in three of their chief centers they have already had to re- build their plant so as to secure in- creased accommodations. In Boston the head office, the company has al- ready the finest building devoted to tea in America. Plans are now out for an enlargement which will nearly double it's capacity.
 Having outgrown their premises in Montreal, they have this year erect ed a 1O-story building, }oxS7 feet on St. Lawrence Boulevard. It is one of the grandest comm erciaI buildings in Canada. Their new headuuarters in Toronto is a building of 1000 feet of nyr- moved it's headquarters to 91 Hudson street where they have greatly in