Shun-the-teapot Warning.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 25 September 1914, Page 2

Shun-the-teapot Warning.

For the last ten years or so a number of Irish doctors interested in mental diseases have been trying to locate the causes of the widespread lunacy among the people of County Kerry.' It has remained for an eminent ecclesiastic actually to fix it. The Most Rev. Dr. Maugan, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Kerry, now attributes this sad mental state to a far too free indulgence in the use and consumption of tea among the young people. As a consequence he has issued a warning to mothers to be more sparing in the supply of that beverage to their children. "Before the teapot," says his grace, "biicame such a common domestic utensil, Kerry homes produced a race of men and women that was the admiration of Europe. Instead of beautiful muscular development we have now a

of stunted growths exhibiting symptoms of mental degeneracy. I beg of you all, therefore, to shun the teapot."