Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-08
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES f. TRACEWELL.
Well, the iced tea season is closed.

| Well, the iced tea season Is closed.
Now no more for about q year viii
be heard the tinkle of ice in tea, mol
| felt the soothing gurgle of that bever.
| age down the throat.
The glass that cheers but does no
! inebriate has gone on the top shelf, it.
| duty for the Summer season of 1925
having been done neatly and efficiently
Surely there is no other drink in thu
| world quite like iced tea, or ice tea, q!
one prefers to call it,
The qualities of this beverage have
long been a mystery to many discrim
| mating persons, who recognize its worth
but do not exactly know how or why i
gets its prestige.
Let it be admitted that many per.
sons regard hot tea as so much--well
"slop" is the word usually used. Nc
doubt they are mistaken. Tea is much
too old and too universally liked to de.
serve any such term.
Yet any one who has CHANGED to i'm.
bibe a poor cup of hot" tea readily un-
derstsnds why many folk cannot en-
dure it.
1t is significant that these very per-
sons do like and do drink iced tea in
Summer.
Why?
X X X X
There seems to be some occult rela-
tionShip between the weather and ones
desire for iced tea.
After Summer of careful observation
we are able to state that 90 degrees is
the temperature at which the human
desire for iced tea manifests itself.
Let the thermometer on the back
porch sink l degree below 90, to wit, 80,
mankind Immediately loses its thirst for
this king of Summer table beverages.
Let it go down to SO degrees, and your
average person cannot bear to look one
of the tall glasses in the face.
We were very careful in making our
with glass of iced tea, we felt sud-
den repugnance.
Perhaps We were i'll?
Nothing of the kind! The thermome-
ter, very good instrument, showed a
temperature of 81 degrees.
That explained it.
No man drinks iced tea at 81 degrees
in the shade. 1t simply Is another one
of these things that are not done
1t becomes almost social offenSe to
drink tea with ice in it when the day
is not hot. Probably some advertiser
will come out with picture of group
of polite friends sneeringly laughing be-
hind their hostess pretty back as she
offers them iced tea in the face of the
thermometer on the wall which plainly
shows the room temperature to be rs
degrees.
r ~
When the red In the tube mounts to
80, and 90, and so on to "a or more,
the demand for iced tea is instantane-
Gus.
1t wells from million lips, and is
answered by housewives the land over
in the one and only satisfactory man
ner-i. e., with large beakers of amber
fluid.
Iced coffee and even iced cocoa have
their places, but when it comes to genu-
inc satisfaction during hot weather
there Is nothSlg that takes the place
of tea. Strong men and weak women
OF there are any weak women any
more) feel the same way about it.
The amount of tea one can hold re-
mains another mystery. Many men
think nothing at all of consuming three
or four glasses for supper on q hot
night. Probably any one can drink
twice as much iced tea during meal
as any other liquid. Just why this toll
erance must be solved by the chemists
who delve into food and drink. There