Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1889 — A Fine Taste in Tea. [ARTICLE]

A Fine Taste in Tea.

Mr, Guy Maine, the Chinese lecturer, related the following instance in regard to Chinese tea driuking. He said that when he was a boy about 11 years old he lived with his father, who was a little near-sighted, in a cottage in the southern part of China. One day he was cleaning out his father's tea kettle and could not get all the tea leaves out, so he put his hand in the kett!e. About a half hour afterward his father called for his tea, which Guy took to him and returned to work. Shortly the old gentleman called him again and asked him if he did not tell him never to put his hand in the tea kettle. “Well,” said Guy, “I did not know whether my father was peeking through the keyhole watching me or not. So I let three weeks pass when 1 knew mv father was out on business, and I again put my hand in the tea kettle. That evening I was called to answer the question whjch was asked me several weeks before, But you may rest assured from that time to this I have never put my hand in any tea kettle.” —New York Evening Sun.