Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1894 — Tea-Drinking. [ARTICLE]

Tea-Drinking.

Tea-drinking among men has all at once excited discussion. But it does not appear to be known, says a

contemporary, that nearly all men ol literary habits who exhaust nerve force take to tea-drinking. Edwin Booth used to have a pot of tea simmering in his stage dresslng-reom. Preachers, orators, and lawyers find a cup of strong tea the gentlest and most harmless of brain bracers, and It has no reaction. The reason why young men affect to despise teadrinking is that they associate It with declining power and old women. But the truth is that tea, If of a pure kind and properly “drawn,” Is about as innocuous and pleasant a stimulant as a young man can resort to after a long worry or a drain of emotional or intellectual force. If It could be made to take the place of champagne and absinthe, the coming race would be better off. Some of our restaurants have taken to furnishing the extra tea that is served a la Russe—that Is, without milk, but with the addition of a slice of lemon.