TEA AND BEER.

Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 76, 21 October 1905, Page 2

TEA AND BEER.

-__. In his book entitled '• Simple Lessons on Health," Sir Michael Foster, tbe author, has much to say about tea and cognate beverages, and alcohol. Both, we are told, are " whips, they | do not create strength ; tbey call it

out. Both are capable of abuse, the latter the more capable because of its perilous attractiveness. This is how the matter is summed up:— "We mnst bear in mind that though tea and beer are both whips, they are whips of a different kind. And a good many people, though tbey quite see how much harm in the world is done by drinking too much beer and the like, feel sure that tbere are times when you want a whip, and will be all the better for a whip, and when the particular whip you want is that given by a proper quantity of some alcoholic drink, say a glass of beer, and not that given by a cup of tea. For that which is done to you by tbe glass of beer is not tbe same thing as that done to you by the cud of tea, though each of them is a whip ; and your body may be in such a etate that the I beer does you good and the tea does j not, just as the otber times your body may be in such a state tbat the tea does you good and the beer does not." A conclusive argument.