TEA AND COFFEE AT NIGHT.
The use of tea at night is another very .mixed question. If year nerves arefatigued, tea will often make you sleep, but if you are .over.excited.it will‘keep you restless and awake. As a rule, most late workers are in the habit of sipping tea. Many do not find 'that it injures their sleep, and I suppose that most doctors would agree that, if this is the • case, tea for the student is far better than alcohol in any shape. These remarks also apply to coffee. Black coffee in hot countries seems to be the great panacea for all the woes of life. It apparently suits some late students and business men better than- tea in times of pressure, and it is certainly superior to any form of alcohol. A head clerk in one of the largest offices in Londo -j told me that during a fortnight of commercial panic, when all the employes were kept working over time, most of them took to stimulants. My ffriend said.— . ‘I foresaw what was coming, and when the crisis arrived I cut. off all alcohol and substituted coffee. At the end of the fortmight most of my colleagues were knocked up, but I was as fresh as a bird.'
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLX, Issue 8163, 15 August 1887, Page 7
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