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Show Americans Don't Drink Tea? 94,000,000 Pounds People who gobble up new ideas as quickly as Americans are bound to swallow a lot of hokum with their hot dogs. Most of us have completely com-pletely forgotten the once-sacred formula, for-mula, "Every day in every way I'm getting better and better," and many of us stopped eating the required apple a day. some years ago, but as a mass, we still believe: That we live fast and die young, ignoring the evidence of life-insurance companies to the contrary; that we're just a husky bunch of record-breaking athletes, when, as a matter of statistics, we are merely an excitable nation of spectators. Finally, there is a widespread belief be-lief that Americans don't drink tea, and, worse, the calumny that American Amer-ican men who drink it are sissies. Although Americans "don't drink tea." 94.000.000 Bounds of it came through the customs last year, enough to make 19,000,000,000 cups, or thereabouts. There are three things you can do with tea: You can use it to take ink stains out of rugs, the burn out of sunburn, and you can drink it. Therefore it begins be-gins to look as though another fallacy fal-lacy has slipped by our unguarded frontier, and, lest it become accepted accept-ed as a fact and innocent men quarantined quar-antined as sissies, let's get Polly to put the kettle on and boil down the truth from the mists of fancy. |