TEA-DRINKING IN PARAGUAY.
The natives of Paraguay, in drinking tlieir tea, do not pour it from a teapot into a cup, as Europeans are accustomed to drink tea, but fill a goblet with the beverage, and then suck it up through' a long ornamental tube. The former is generally made out of a pumpkin or gourd, while the tube is a long reed, but with the upper classes it is often made of solid silver. Both reed and gourd are richly carved. The natives say that this tea is an excellent- remedy for fever and rheumatism, and chemical tests which have been made by German physicians seem to show that there is good ground for this statement. Certain it is that the tea is widely ■ used throughout Paraguay in cases of illness, and that, so far as has been observed, the effects produced by it are highly beneficial.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 741, 30 January 1915, Page 2
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148TEA-DRINKING IN PARAGUAY. King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 741, 30 January 1915, Page 2
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