Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1901 — Drinks Only Tea. [ARTICLE]

Drinks Only Tea.

TThere is a man in our company,” says a Philadelphia stage manager, “who hasn’t drunk a drop of water in twenty-seven years. He boasts of it He is always the first man into the theatre for a performance, and is as regular as clockwork at rehearsals. No, he isn’t ‘rummy.’ In fact liquor is most repugnant to him. But for twenty-seven years he has drunk nothing but tea, and he will probably continue in his present course until he dies. He carries his little portable gas arrangement about with him, and between the acts he makes strong tea—the strongest you ever tasted—ln his dressing room, attaching hls little heater to the gas fixture with a rubber tube. When this is impossible he carries a bottle of cold tea in his pocket, and when on a long run on the train the other members are yearning for a drink the old man pulls out hls bottle of cold tea and is happy.”—Philadelphia Record.