A SCHOOL MAM'S LETTER.

Evening Star, Issue 10901, 8 April 1899, Page 2 (Supplement)

A SCHOOL MAM'S LETTER.

The following delightful epistle was sent the other day to a school mistress by a fond mother in the back blocks: "Dear Mam, —Pleese don't teech my Mary Ann eny moar about her stummick and her innards. I don't thing it's desent, and lam sure it is very rood." J There are a good many people like Mary Ann's mother, who don't believe in the gentle science of physiology. Their " stummicks and innards" are to them unknown quantities, and so long as they can get plenty of gaudy attire to clothe their said anatomy they axe happy. And generally a day arrives when the despised "stummick" asserts its existence, ' and then it's "Hi!" for the medicine man. The bile pills for pink people and so on. Now, one great cause of trouble—but mind this is not a quack medicine advt.—is the bad habit some people have of tanning their " stummick " by drinking copious draughts of vile tea. Now, some things are improved by the process. Youngsters and sole leather both are benefited by tanning, but certainly not the " innards." Good wholesome tea like the farfamed Hondai-Lanka Ceylon, drunk in reasonable quantities, does not tan, but, on the other hand, invigorates and gives tone to the system. If people knew something of physiology they would be a deal more particular as to the tea, they drankJust try that delicious Hondai-Lanka, and notice the difference between it and a lot of the rubbish in the market. It is grown on the slopes of Ceylon's mountains, and is packed just as pure as it is picked. Try it and see. Next week our prize packet of finest HondaiLanka Diamond Jubilee Tea will be given for the best Scotch proverb applicable to this splendid tea. AH replies to be sent in by Thursday next to the Hondai-Lanka Tea Company, Dowling street. —[Advt.]