SAVING VIRTUES OF TEA.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1246, 30 September 1911, Page 10

SAVING VIRTUES OF TEA.

In thesis days of advanced scicnce, vrhcs mere man is so surrounded by microbes, and germs, and protoplasms, that ho hardly knows what to eat or what to drinlij when his lavourite dish is j list the 0110 , causing him to be slowly poisoned, and- his solitary drink is washing him to a ghastly doom, it is satisfactory to ' ; no\y that somebody has a good word lor something. And the Australian's great weakness—his fondness for a cup oi tea, despite its tanning and its stom-ach-ruining propcrties>-lias been hold up to favourable conuuent by the doctors. One of the sneakers at tlio Medical ConaL last week (says the Daily Telegraph") snolto of the discover, made dur,as. tho South African War that the Australian troops fared far better when they woro allowed to drink their homely tea, than when thev consumed the official limejuice, and it was afterwards found that tea-drinking troops sutlered iar less from certain diseases than troops who did not enjoy the cheorW L C "P' , -Autl then Congress was told that the bushmen of Australia found out the secret years ngo, and tho reason Australia was a BTeat tea-drinking community was simply that, the earliest recidents in the country kept their health Hotter by drinking tea—because tho water had to be boiled and any ceni'S in it slain m the boiling—(hail by drinking anyJiing else. The precaution becanio a haoit, and the habit a fashion. So that Australians do not drink tea bo-' cause they like it. It is because they develop tho hygienio instinct early in llic. J

J,™ 1 " said the girl thoughtfully, that you wouldn t use that expression, launched upon the sea of matrimony."' And why not?" asked the young man, anxiously. Well, yuu knew what kind of timo I always havo on a sea voyage."

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