Show A CIP OF m how to ailt a it and bow to spoil it avow london it seems a simple thief enough yet ot the millions who use this refreshing and agreeable bei a very email proportion understand how to prepare it but if not properly made tea is deprived of a great deal of its avalne valne and sometimes rendered injurious the water to be used should boil and it should be poured on the tea immediately it b iila if allowed to the peculiar property of boiling w ater which ac a upon tea evaporates and eventually disappears tea should not be a decoction but an infusion if allowed to stew it becomes little better than a decoction of tannic acid tea that is overdrawn is hurtful to the nerves and to the digestion As to the precise number of minutes which should be devoted to the of drawing some people will eay five minutes some eaven some v ill perhaps eo aa far as ten but our experience is m favor of six this suffices to bring out the flavor quality and strength juet as much tea as is wanted should be made no more blake fresh tea as often as it is the replenishing of the teapot w ith fresh hot water is very As tha thorough tho of the receptacle is of the birot importance the teapot should be mado thoroughly hot before atie tea la put in it the earthenware pre terrt d to all othera by amny connoisseurs and it ia to siy that w hatcher utensil is used for this should be immaculately clean tea is an extremely delicate article its susceptibility to the odors of commodities modi ties near it Is a source of dancer and deterioration as it rapidly takes up the emell of bodae cocoa apices cheese bacon or other articles of pronounced odor the complaints sometimes made about ua probably nut arate if always kept in free from beuch contagion tea should be stewed in a warm dry place unnecessary to the air alii uld be avoided kven when securely packed in the leaded chests in which it arrives in angland gland chanco from the heat of castern ekies to abe camp aad humid of thle climate deprives tea of much of its beautiful fragrance tea of much betler quality than la generally dispensed at oar railway stat ons and refreshment roams ran ba bought at ag per pound A pound of tea would roache W cup this is chneider bly less than a per cup you may well nik how it Is that we should be belll chareen ail and little hot and water slightly flavored with undesirable tannin |