Tea Drinking.

Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, Volume 1, Issue 22, 23 August 1901, Page 2

Tea Drinking.

»■. Lady .Temie has been taking Tip the! 1 tea-drking question, tmcl has written with, some warmth upon the habit of excessive tea drinking on the part of i young women in domestic service, a 1 habit which she believes to be liicreas-i ing. "I have-no-hesitation, in sajing that it is the constant drinking of ' strong tea which makes the women of our toiling masses delicate, and thejr • children anfoinie, for not only do these latter enherit that weekness from their > mothers, but become even greater sin- ! ners in this direction than their parents. 1 Nothing," she continues, v<has more ■ seriously injured the hea'thof women of the working classes than the cheapening of tea. The habit of drinking 'stewed' tea is in the highest degree deplorable, for it is well known that it is the tannin in tea which is injurious, und this naturally is extracted in " a very strong, degree when the teapot " is allowed to remain on the stove for 1 an hour or more. Then when cups of this obnoxious beverage are drunk : promiscuously, supposedly to refresh] the tired system and give one a fill-upi 1 —then is the harm done. In reality 3 one ib pouring so much poison into the system and utterly destroying thp ' n«rves.