OVERDRAWN TEA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 15 November 1907, Page 4

OVERDRAWN TEA.

Many and grave are the warning* (says Chambers's Journal) as to the dire consequences of drinking tea which has "stood." Tea is thoroughly brewed, they say, in from throe to six minutes, according to its kind, and after that it begins to exude a vile poison called tannin. So often have women been told of this clanger—not that tbey are the worst offenders, but they, are popularly supposed to be—that one can only marvel at the bravery with which they unfalteringly demand a second cup, although that second cup should, by all accounts, contain more poison than tea., It is (rue that men and women go on living in spite of this daily danger; but when the modicum of truth has been sifted from the mass of exaggeration, we may take it that they would live a little better if they confined themselves to first helpings. However, that is too much to expect from human nature, and a teapot which prv lides that the second cup shall be as gocd as the first should therefore be u boon. The S.Y.P patent teapot seems to meet the case well. It is like en ordinny teapot, with an extra compartment at the top. above the handle, in which the tea-leaves are placed. This compartment communicates with th<teapot proper by means of a perforate.! partition Certain projections on the sides of the {.Moot enable it to be laid on its back, where it will stand (irmly as long as required to do so. Teaieaves placed in the upper storey aud boiling water in the lower will conic into the necessary intimate contact immediately if the teapot be stood on its hind legs .-is it were. After the lapse of the necessary number of minutes to "draw" the tea properly, the pot is placed eiect. the properly made tea dnrw3 from the tea leaves, and the evil designs of the malignant tannin are nipped in the bud.