The everyday household tea of Argentina is an astonishing concoction. It is called verba mate, is gathered in the lieart of America's vast forests by wan dering Indians, and ir; drunk through a .six-inch silver tube from a calabash. The verba leaves are roasted, powdered, and mixed with boiling milk or water to make mate which, taken in any quantity, has no ill effects, and is one of the purest stimulants and most invigorating i lie vera ges known to science.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 220, 17 September 1938, Page 21
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