Ogden Daily Standard | 1902-05-24 | Page 6 | Brains and Beverages Section

BRAINS al AVERAGES literary Liter arr lesht who aled in ana tea famous literary men have nil had their favorite beverages tea and coffee however head the list and sc two drinks which the famous william cobbett as slops have been the means of spurring many a drowsy jour to re energy voltaire the of wits and lattera deurs was a confirmed coffee drinker in his old age h often took fifty cups a day which sadly hart his digestion and hastened ats death balzac never drank anything coffee nud during the early hours of the morning foche began at 12 midnight used to take copious drafts of this stimulating drink 1 sir james macintosh was so fond oc coffee that he used to assert that the powers of a mans mind would generally be found to be proportional to the quantity of that stimulant which ha drank cowper pays a tribute to ten in the task when he says the cup that cacere but not inebriates lie was very fond of the chinese leverage but the king ot tea drinkers was samuel johnson on one occasion sir josh ua Ileya olds reminded the great man that ho had drunk eleven cups of tea whereupon johnson retorted sir I 1 did not count your glasses of wine why then should you number of tea V the united states and nil its possessions and all europe russia could be put into siberia with land enough left to make thirty five states like connecticut