Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 267, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1913 — Must We [?] Tea? [ARTICLE]

Must We [?] Tea?

Thirsty humanity is sore beset in these days when every variety ol beverage is gradually being put under the ban. It has been customary and has become quite orthodox, to decry the aromatic Arabian berry’s Infusion as a cause of the coffee heart, neuralgia and other dire afflictions. Now a French scientist sounds a note of warning against “the cup that cheers but does not inebriate.” He says that the consumptiop'of tea has increased 150 per cent in the last 24 years, and cautions French women to let it alone, if they wish to avoid stomach and heart troubles. Ranked With Kentucky moonshine and absinthe as the three deadly drugs tea may become taboo. Women who serve it may be regarded as followers of the terrible Sicilian hag who invented Aqua Tofana for getting rid of troublesome husbands. Humanity is graudally being driven back to the old oaken bucket! Perhaps the day will come when even water will be found to be deleterious, and milk denounced as conducive to disorders of divers kinds. Thus the Joys of existence are being contracted until there’ll be but one answer to the question , “Is life worth living?”