TEA-DRINKING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 61, 8 February 1884, Page 3

TEA-DRINKING.

Tm« titan of Bangorj retaking a* a mteting huld |q furnish th* wUbUshwent of causes of instruction in practical cookery in the elementary schools, said that if he had his own way there would be much less tea-drink-ing among people of all classes. Oatmeal and milk produced strong, hearty, goodtempered men and women; whereas excessive tea-drinking created a generation of nervons, discontented people, wHo were for ever complaining of the existing order of the universe, scolding their neighbours, and sighing after the impossible, Good cooking would, he firmly believed, enable them to take far higher and more correct views of existence. In fact, he suspected that over much tea-drinking, by destroying the calmness of the nerves, was acting as a dangerous revolutionary force among us. Tea-drinking renewed three or four times a day made men and women feel weak, and the result was that the tea-kettle went before the gin -bottle, and the physical and the nervous weakness that had its origin in the bad cookery of an ignorant wife emu? ‘a ruin, intemperance, and disease,