TEA AND COFFEE AT NIGHT.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1647, 27 August 1887, Page 3

TEA AND COFFEE AT NIGHT.

The use of tea at night ia another very mixsd qiestlcn. lr your nerves ate fatigue.), tea will often make you Bleep, but if you are over-excited-, it will keep you r.JB'IaHB and awake. Asa rule, most iatt woikers are In the habit of sipping tea Mauy do not nod than it injures their elosp, and I suppose that most doctors would agree that, if this is the case, tea for the student is far better than alcohol m any shape. Tht-se remarks also apply to o^ff.e. B aok o< ffeo m hot countries seems be the great panacea for all tbe woes of life. It apparently • aits some late students and business men better than tea m times of pressure, and It Is oartainly superior to any form of alcohol. A head olerk iv one of the largest offices m London told me that during a fortnight of commercial panic, when all the employe's wera kept working overtime, most of them took to stimulants. My friend said, — ' I foresaw what was coming, and when the crisis arrived I cut off all alcohol and substituted coffae. At the end of the fortnight most of my colleagues were knocked up, but I was as fresh as a bird.