PODGY’S TEA-TIME.

Evening Star, Issue 11677, 8 February 1902, Page 2

PODGY’S TEA-TIME.

“Well?” “Wen?” “What's this stuff, Mrs Podgy?” “It’s tea, dear. Is your sight failing T* “Teal Looks to mo more like polishing paste dissolved in soapsuds!” “ Oh. bow clever you are. Why, it's a new blend, and so cheap.” “Of course, it’s cheap. I suppose you didn’t think of such a thing as quality?” i “ Put, dear, it says on the packet that the ! quality is good,” j “Hays on the packet! D’ye think ‘hat ! tombstones are the only things that carry ! lies. I say the stuff is injurious to health." ! “Well, 'dear, I took what the grocer recommended.” “Of course, to be sure! You don't seem to be much of a judge of tea, Mrs Podgy.’ “Well, Jack, what do you want?” “I want good tea to drink when I come home tired out with hard work. Is ,hat too much to expect?” “I’m sure, Jack (sobbing), I always try to gee you the best I can.” " Well, if yon want to get tea that will put life in a fellow and not poison his inside and destroy his wife's good looks, get the same as Smith bays.” “ Oh, yes (cheering up), I know; it’s Ceylon. I was always going to try u. Such a queer name, too. ‘ Cock o’ ti.e North.’ ” “Yes, and it’s the Champion Game Cook in the tea line, I can tell you. I never drank anything like it. It’s a beverage, thuds what it is, Mrs Podgy; grateful a„d comforting, as Thuig-anuny-boh says.” ‘All right, dear, you shall have it tonight ; I’ll see to it.” *«•••••

The scene is now changed at Podgy's, for the use of Cock o’ the North has changed Podgy at tea time from a grumbling, dissatisfied man to a kind, considerate, and delighted husband ; and as for Mrs Podgy, she can’t praise Hondai-Lanka pure Ceylon tea half enough. She is now a living advertisement- for it.—[Advt.]