TEA-DRINKING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1621, 28 February 1884, Page 3

TEA-DRINKING.

The Dean of Bangor, speaking at a meeting held to furnish the establishment of course of instruction in practLal cookery in the elementary schools, said that if he had his own way there would be much less tea-drinking with people of all classes, Oatmeal and milk produced strong, hearty, goodtimpend men and women; whereas excessive tea-drinking created a generation of nervous, discontented people, who were for ever complaining of the existing order of the universe, scqlding their neighbors, and always sighing after the impossible. Good cooking would, he firmly believed, enable them to take far higher and more correct views of existence, In fact lie suspected that over much tea-drinking, by destroying the calmness of tho nerves, was acting as a dangerous revolutionary force among us. Tea-drinking renewed three or four times a day made men and women feel weak, and the tea-kettlo went before the gin-bottle, and the physical and the nervous weakness that had its origin in the bad cookery of an ignorant wife endod in ruin, intemperance and disease,