WHAT'S IN A CUP OF TEA ... do Americans sec ina cup of tea more than By V?/ :JW-rshrmnt and five o'clock chat? Or. per- William Elliot Griffis inveighs against "this vile article of luxury." He quite the leaf dregs, their "fortunes"? outdoes the sand-lots oratory in hinting that the Chinese W ui?in the beginnings are gleeful in thus enticing the Occidentals to send their . and Koreans of the China, ih JJap;f^ncsc in miniature when they rotate the gold and silver to inreturn for the "abominable ap.x\ir stuff." Nevertheless, Captain Romans urges the cul- s^^r Hauid. before draining thecup. Against these |jStjfr*S motion, in white ceramics and am- tivation of tea in Florida to head off the designs of Q^ict'a-d the initial cosmic forces, Great Britain. they behold Even Krbro at work in the making of worlds. as late as 1819, our great Simeon DeWitt, who . a dnegative.* was on the staff of Washington, a scientific man, gv of Korea thisemblem! What seems and j^i:ivc*° -^^ Surveyor General of the State of New York, "has no rf inperpetual revolution, each striving (ToilClwo commas tea inhim." as the Japanese say. He reviles the foreign W he other, is the graphic symbol of creation. tnn t and day, the luxury, which in his view degrades the constitutional too Koreaii* mind night masculine and tJltc \u0084,* nature, all stamina of the American people. "Happy for us would To . ioni<(if whence prooeed things, it be lVrr dark if such a time should return, when tea and coffee f? pictured :nminiature. One blue and the were almost unknown country!" He mourns irC yellow, represent heaven, or the male in our Ljdish or that sugar and milk must be added to "the nauseous °'yielT, d earth, the female element or great 1'an - the' drugs," to decoy children into the use of them. flcnTf^ ICIOss the ocean the heavens seem to clasp the How oblivious of up chronology are those descendants the land rises in lofty mountains to ot the Pilgrims insist c5 while embrace, making Flag who on publicly boasting of tea- heaver.:- in its thus harmony, The of Korea. pots "brought over Mayflower." England M'he fitness of things. in the when tv ami the eternal knew no tea tillafter the Commonwealth! Some have K art one will recognize these symbols, InJapan the i'oriental whole culture of the shrub seems to have even offered their holy crockery to the Pilgrim Museum r£ in the teacup, in a thousand decorative been promoted by the "religious"; rfC but it made little at Plymouth. Massachusetts, for enshrinement. Hap- *- but the Koreans were the first to make of them progress until near the dose of the twelfth century. pily for science and faith these mushroom growths of Srtiobal Bdg. The Japanese add a third, making a Then the Buddhist abbot, Myoe, imported new seeds fancy find a place beneath the things authentic in the P-nible—fold symbol, which bo them represents Heaven, from China, sowing them near Kioto and transplanting cellar, amid the great collection of uncertainties. Man: tl:us introducing the offspring of the them to Uji, where to-day one sec-, in vastness, splendor, Vet there's fun in the Americans, while en- v'^-h and" etch, embroider, teacup. I'^ciuir. Not only do they stamp, and poetry the triumph of cultivation. Henceforth joying the humors of the case, must be grateful. Tea and carve the emblem on every sort of plastic tea drinking was the rule and fashion with the Japanese in Europe lifted woman up. The hot drinks introduced hrtaaL- n.tably do they mold in clay of f '^ai'but it the the court and aristocracy. By the fifteenth century, this from the Orient gave her a place of honor at the table Sdtfleor fitiialof their booses, thus tipping with a decoction, which be^an as a medicine, had grown into never enjoyed before, making the wife the president of embl 'he rooftree of the .family. In their a beverage. It entered into the realm of poetry as one the daily meal. How fascinating is the rosy Madonna - >'r" ornament points of amusements, 5-'—•'•"old n.\ this ceramic to. the polite and became transfigured into of the steaming cups at five P. If! How stimulative to te«eat nnh \u25a0\u25a0 honied in which Heaven is the father, a religion, ofesthcticism at. least. fine manners and gracious accomplishments! How it F%*h the mother, and Man the child, whose happiness Herein lay beauty and blessing for Japan. < )ut of the doe-- somehow, without malice, remind of the delightful ~as&s in loy \u25a0\u25a0"/ ar*d obedience to the great parents. teacup poured a great stream of refining influences. crones in fairytales or medieval forest lore, when we see Ye"all" these . ;,,e out of a teacup and from the last Pea came to the people after "it had been associated with old ladies with their cups ofgreen tea held between their LathW ofthe liquid.- -Verily ends meet.! ,- . the sanction- of religion." It was presented with the cap strings, dishing out gossip. Before tea came, man "'Though we inclined to associate both Chiria and courtesy and fine manners (»f the c<>urt. Henceforth the sat at the top of the table, along with the salt or the '\u25a0\u25a0 universe, yet the Chinese Japanese maiden, silver and ceramics, i«withthe ginning of the herself, a dainty product of centuries. spicebox; now woman rules amid the «nt a lon.c time without a sip of bohea. Nowhere in served the cheering refreshment on the daintiest of and a Princess pours. > literature isany mention of the shrub's trays. Potters and painters, bronze casters and wood Sometimes the lady becomes despot. "Idon't think rt«rvolomin infusion, I). tares tised . an until A 350. Nowadays workers, with their decorative arts strove in rivalry to the first cup from the teapot is fit to drink." blandly jnanv c« a itries claim the birthplace of the Thea make the tea equipage a feast for the chastened eye. It remarked a strong-minded English lady, in the five as ; Tea Party? Yet it those last refinements of experimental skill which long \u25a0Itiscer:. in«hat tea was not generally, drunk in China is so. Although tea ritual, or the esthetic ceremonies experience has suggested. There are tea tasters who tnjtroduced (hn by profess, and are really able, to discriminate every grade tiTinlthe ii." h century. InJapan it was in of no yu. became virtually a national institution D. SO.". the famous Buddhist saint Dengyo. This- \u25a0the' end of the seventeenth century, thegeneral use of of tea; but, in the height of my own revels and niceties jjil^mbey >rd seas, v. '\u25a0:\u25a0\u25a0 had talked with Nestorian' tea among the lower classes was not'kiiown until about of perception, when livingnear Uji, Iwas never able to 17(K). the merits of anything higher than tea at Christian- •': China and sat under the teachings of the A. D. Even in modern Korea tea is not a univer- distinguish BK)stfamou> -:iges from India, introduced a new sect sal beverage. Nothing surprised me more in Japan, in two dollars a pound as sold in Japan, though Ihave and the rite of Buddhist baptism. While abroad he 1870, than to see hot water drunk almost as often as tea heard of tea sold at -ix dollars for sixteen ounces. worked magic. beverage and only the cheapest kind of cha by the laborers. Inmy teacup Ihave a picture gallery of happy mem- beard of a ciip that Its could drunk interiors; awake during their midnight devotioi.s. The Orient's gift of tea to Europe may have been ories. Irecall the esthetic charm ofmany for feeep the monks of drinking Evidently the average prayer meeting in that day. is welcomed without much opposition; but in America all Japan is keyed up to the environment tea rate, and dainty style. Repose, self wellas in i\u25a0' :s, needed tea. Atany itwas clear that the infusion won its way to our tables only after hard in temperate measure the Chine-c nk tended to spirituality. So secure was its reputation :• r making sleepy folkbrilHani at eleven P. m.. that the venders of the shrub must have ;= patron saint. So. as in Eur :- Crispin is the patron <\u25a0:•:. ""sakers. Hubert of hunter-, and Saint Law- rence of '.': gridiron makers, theJapan* - saint and patron of tea. an ilater of tobacco, is Dar^Tr..,.- Now. :•me travels much in Mikado-land, he will find a very children- toy,;"' much like thewabbling .... of our nur>i:v days. He has no legs, but • *nly an ample melon- shaped physical basis. This worthy, in wood also, is seen before the -moke shops, as the imagt,- of .isaint, not hand- sonic bu* rather grumpy look- ing. wh<. meditated so long on the mysteries that his legs dropped off. To this holy gentleman^- Daruma by name, who piiim many amoral, and adorn- many a tale,is ascribed the origin of the teaplant. Serving "f Tea in Japan Faintale and mythology, The Ccr<-n onial i'.me Rumor, always like control, the not too much refinement, power to think more tongues than science, being specially af- names and h->~tik- criticism. Listen to Captain Bernard supply our and. enjoy, grew with the cheering tea. Beautiful is the flucn: v. record So the story goes that after Romans, who wrote a history of Florida and built hen fail. pearly tearose. Gentle are the ways of the tea pickers D^n:-- . spent long years inceaseless vigils. Nature first torts at West Point: had weed and late attempted to be and elegant are the manners of the drinkers of the un- rcvolv i. He fell asleep. On waking up. be was so "Tea, a despicable of "Itis hygiene, for it flung made a dirty conduit to lead a stream of oppressions inebriating cup. Ibelieve in tea. angry that he cut offhis peccant eyelids and them the Cap- enforces cleanliness; it is economics, for it shows com- Suddenly there up from the soil into these happy regions!" Let us hope that to the -round. rose method of drawing fort in simplicity rather than the complex and costly: two > •\u25a0•\u25a0 sbs which, when their leaves were picked and tain was referring to the unusual water, in Boston Harbor. it is moral geometry, inasmuch as it defines our sense of infuse i hot water, held the potency ofmaking eyelid tea, with the aid of cold salt spirit in says further, is "one of the greatest causes of proportion to the universe. Itrepresents the true muscle ; rong and keeping holy men awake at vigil Tea. he by making all its votaries substance, getting poverty which seems for some years past to have of Eastern democracy aris- time. Thus the new instead of a the Britain, have tocrats in taste." antimony (anti-monkery or bane) preyed on the vitals of and it would not name '. : monk's universally become The East and the West do not yet understand each a; «\u25a0\u25a0.:• ich a sinister story is told, became the breth- deserved my attention had it not so course, Other; the whole world meets in brotherhood over ren^ ddight. In place of poison, as some thought it a necessary of life." <>f whatever is "a necessary but King George's folly! He the teacup. might ;\u25a0:. it proved to be lifegiving. of lite" is taxable. Hence 11