Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 195, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1917 — Chinese Are Tea Drinkers. [ARTICLE]

Chinese Are Tea Drinkers.

In China and Japan tea is drunk even more frequently than in Russia, and as no Russian travels extensively ‘without a samovar, so no gentleman in China travels without a tea-caddy and the rest of the tea-serving equipment. Jn China there is a saying that the tea drinker becomes early lame, and among Chipese beauties there is a feeling that extensive tea drinking destroys youth. Whenever tea is taken to a great extent; there are some such prejudices, and we Americans are perhaps wise in restricting‘our use of tea to the social cup at four or five o’clock. —Exchange.