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Show The Chinamen who superintend Chinese exhibitions of tea at the Centennial Cen-tennial say that the greoa tea of commerce, com-merce, which is the favorite beverage of a Urge class of Europeans and Americana, is simply an artificial colored tea. It is the natural leaf transformed into green tea by a poisonous pois-onous substance. A Chinaman would rather swallow a decoction of opium and tobacco than ono of green tea prepared by himself. He thinks that the mere change in color of oolong, congou, Bouchong or flowery pekoe suggests no improvements in quality, and that a coating of poison is rather a deterioration. Kcasoning, however, that what is poison to the Mongolian may be medicine to the Caucasian, he willingly yields to the taste of the latter, especially as a margin of profit Ls offered in his favor. |