TEA BY THE ROADSIDE

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 35, 9 August 1930, Page 15

TEA BY THE ROADSIDE

STIMULANT TO EFFICIENCY

CHICAGO, 14th June. Boadside tea is the newest wrinkle with the nation's motorists. On toman automobile isn't well equipped unless it has a tea hamper all ready to provide a refreshing cup of tho steaming beverage. Tea, it lias been found, not only relieves tho fatguo brought on by long miles of scanning tho road, but its nerve strengthening properties make it a valuable aid to efficiency and lessen tlie chances of contracting disease from contaminated water along the route. "Boiling naturally kills the germs in water," a bulletin of the Tea Association of the United States points out. "Moreover, by adding the tea leaves, the boiled water is rendered palatable and delightful. "United States borrowed the idea of mixing tea and motoring from the English, where afternoon tea whether on the road or in the home, :omes as regularly as the run rises and sets. A cup of tea at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, for instance, when fatigue particularly slows up the mental and physical activity, spurs the entire system to renewed activity. ■ '' Eight hours of sleep, an hour in the sunshine and a dietary containing all the bodily food needs ordinarily should maintain a sufficient amount of energy for most people. The difficulty is that the groat mass of city dwellers fail to achieve one or the other or all of these essentials in right amount. "It it here that tea comes into the picture. It boosts up the motorist's energy gauge to tho point where it should be."