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MAY Zorst. Up bellmes, it being it to my friends lest it be spoiled, my for chest being small and the very fair weather and mighty het

weather hot Dined with my chil- even of six of the clock, and with all

apen and my door tren and so to bed. my ensements that opens upon the leads. But the draw the tram trellis ad pad- What Rave

fuck it there being over many night thefts upon the Peake. Bui for a Burin or two I keep nu mancy nor jewells in the house, so dve pre- fer to risk the Dung wide

newes

3rd.-Walking early in my garden I did marvell to And may violets still In bicom and did piek button-hole of them, which doe not recall do- Ing before in June. To the offer very busy over my being where I am casements

papers, and all very difficult at pre- Reading in the test fourn that the great italian sent, but I hope things may better hip Conte Fisherman's Island in a forge ani that there bee some paniek at first. But Inter she doth reverse her en- Kines and get off and all is well. Newes from Canton comes that about fourteen hundred ber dead and over Farthermore, ten importers two thousand wounded in the recent

Rosso doth run upon

themselves later. I had forgot my sweepstake bilets and dit hastily draw a bill for thein, for so bce I doe not take them up know full At six. to the well they must win. Clube where some pleasant dis- course, and then to Mr. S. Mitchell' house where I doe drinke a glasse And there I did eat my din-

century, and consequently was as familiar a tipple as in the land of its origin.

The tea plant

is believed to ed to the entire supply available have existed in China from time from China. About this time, however, Indian tea came upon immemorial. but the peculiar

the market, 500,000 bx, being properties of its leaves were pot

sold compared with 61.5 million understood until about the fourth

I from the Middle Kingdom. era. From that

the century of the Christian

time onwards, The habit of tea drinking seems consumption of Chino to have been quite early estab- steadily dropped, until in 1935 lished; for Chinese scholars whilst India, Ceylon and Japan claim that the refreshing infu- supplied 435.1 million ibs, and China only 9.1 millions-a de- BRITISH OPINION

sion was in vogue by the time of

cline of nearly 4,000 per cent. FINALLY ROUSED

the eighth century, and they The reasons for this sensational Londoners will march upon cite as evidence the account of loss of China's re flourishing who wrote a tea trale were largely due to the Japanese Embassy on June the monk Lu Yu 15. British people

not book in its praise. Needless to the Chinese growers hesitancy easily moved to this sort of say that the preparation and im- in adopting new methods which would enable them successfully monstration, and it is indicative; bibing of the beverage soon came

to complete with Japan and fof the depth to which they have to be

an India. regarded as almost been stirred that such protests aesthetic art, and from the Sung are being undertaken against period (A.D. 960-1279) tea was Japanese bombings of civilian in general use amongst all classes had long since learned that the aire raids, which is terrible to think with him, his Lady and Mistress Dlá

on seeing that nigh all are harm-na. populations in China. The march of the people. In Japan, on the old time uniformity of the pro-less civilians, though it may bee they ner and spoke of the coming Races.

floe live near vital points. But, as duct that made the China tea a

4th-Up very betimes, and when on the Embassy is only part of

I hear at the Clubbe they doe flee other hand, notwithstanding

walking to my tramme I doe for the standard for so many centuries | in thousands to Hongkong anci

coat, with a week's programme organised the assertions of the Japanese had suddenly undergone a mark. Macao, and there must come a time second time see a brindled dog in by the Chian Campaign Com-themselves, tea dil not become ed decline. Perhaps thia may entry, for sheer luck of space.

when wee con permit no further shape a chow but short

Creed no muzzle. He is a friendly fellow and wee due greet each other but mittee, which starts on June 13 popularised amongst the masses

have been due to the changed tells me that this day is heard the

I sadly fear her will cost his master Arst ens under the new law and with a poster parade and em- until about the year 1610, or business methods brought about the tenant doth get extension of some ten Blorins yet. Very busy and doc so press matters that I can call braces all sorts of activities, in-about the time, when it was first in old Cathay by more intimate three months but hee must pay more

for Mr. Coldbeck at a half after rent, which, says Creed, hee hath

twelve and with him in my motor cluding a lobby campaign in the brought to Europe.

contact with the aggressive mer- always been ready to doc.

with that when tea chants of the West, or it may Lord! she doe scem mighty well, and

to the Hospital to visit the sick, but hackney to the Race Course. House of Commons, mass meet.

two electrick fans for his box. But, ings and the sending of a de-was first imported in England it have been caused as some prefer tells me that she doth leave on the praise bec, I doc by chance chuse morrow. Home to find a case of the lighter one to carry up. There, as ever, a mighty pleasant company putation to the Japanese Em-sold at the amazing price of 60s to think, by the decay in the fettuce from Canada. lately come and good cheer. But I am in no bassy. Simultanerusly with this a pound, but further importa standard of Chinese commercial from the chill room of the Empress way in fortune, and my tickets come

boat, very gracious from aunouncement, the Daily Herations soon reduced the price so morality. No longer could the friend, but Loil there is such hand- not up, and so home, and early to

my bed, being weary. that by the end of the seven- westerner proudly say as in the some store I am fals to give some of strong Labour

itl newspaper

Leenth century, "Lay from decades previous to 1850 that London, has demanded that the general public shall bring pres sure to bear upon the British Government to force through a loan to China, with which that ravaged country can buy the means for her defence, Menn- while, in the non-political Lanert, medical journal of high standing, such famous figures

It is related

China Loses Markets

During the course of the next

two centuries, the use of tea had grown to such proportions in England that by 1850 it amount

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5th. (Lord's Day)-Up betimes and busy in my garden, where I dig became regarded as a necessity good as his bond." Chiney" was well known, and the "word of a Chinese was as dulge in hours of endless gossip, some beds for the good of my body In fact, evil The tea served in these places as much as for sunning the soil, and lyming. After I did bathe and trim of daily living.

days had come upon

the tea was as varied as the pretentious- myself, and to a long chair in the trade. The chests when brought pess of the establishment. The garden where come Mr. A. Jay and

lowlier ones catering to the Mr. Nicholson of upon the European

markets wants of the commonalty could Treasury, old friends of mine; and after a glusse or two of the wine of Keres, to nuncheon, Busy writ- proved in so many instances to provide the leaf in at least six or be not up to "chop," as the seven different blends, whilst ing afterwards.

6th. This

being Whit- day, muster or sample of the product those patronised by the Canton-

ese elite could boast that their Monday, is a holiday but I must to of the more was termed. Furthermore, many teas were well nigh limitless in my office, and after to the Hostelry where I doe give a party at nuncheon unscrupulous ex-the possibility of exquisite com-

to some distinguished friends as Lord Dawson of Penn have if it delays longer taking effec porters were not at all amiss to bination. Scented teas, of

mine in the Roof Garden, and all very pleasant, the Birds-Nest Soup signed a letter asking their coltive action to put an end to placing stones in the chests "to course, are appreciated by many

with Mushrooms being as good as leagues to support the Lord these depredations by planes increase the weight." Conse-patrons and there is one tea-

ever 1 ate. Thereafter to carry not even quently, in view of these de-house in Wai Oi Road, Canton Mistress Diana to the Race-Course, Mayor's Fund and come to the which probably are

called Poon Aau, which vaunts a to Mr. Caldbeck's box, but though relief of the foreign hospitals in Spanish or flown by Spanish leterious practices and the un-hundred different blends. The there is much good cheer my fer- China which are doing such pikats. It is a well-known fact certainty of maintaining a stan- special fragrance of each ofte is use it as ever, and I win non- heroic work for the many thou-that Italian and German airmen dard product, it was inevitable these teas appeals to the Chinese home.

7th-Again a mighty Blue day and sands of wounded. Britain is have been fighting Franco's war that the China tea trade should connoisseur who delights in the of incomparable 'bouquet'

It comes lulo my mind that wee doc in the air for some time.

my garden really stirred,

odorous blossoms--of jasmine, need rain-and I in gardenia, ote.

especially having put lyme upon my Possibly the preoccupation of There was

Apathetic Growers

beds and now nothing to soak it in. The prominent role of tea in But I doubt not it will come heavily the Sino-Japanese war has pre-British people hated the sugges-

result of losing their Chinese daily life is familiar to when rain docs fall. More accounts vented public feeling exploding tion of thore being any future

overseas market, the majority of every resident of the East, but from Canton of alre-raids and the situation there seems as bad as it over the repeated bombings of necessity for war. They have

it is not until one studies the can bee, and thousands doc still dock the Chinese tea-growers soon be- vernacular speech that one be- to the Colony. But where they shall HO much disillusion- British ships by Insurgent air-suffered

Look came apathetic and what tea gins to appreciate the lure of the and harbourage I know not, craft. But the British reactionment,

40 many

treaties is produced,

Ing in the newes sheetes I doc and save that for "cup that cheers and does not have won nothing in the big sweep to General Francisco Franco's scrapped, RO many pledges the still large Russian market inebriate." 'The Cantonese on the Lantao Handicap, though I rejection of protests made in ignored that it is no wonder and the infinitesimal demand tongue, being indubitably the did alga twice for tickets on the sheet this connection, combined with that they are losing patience for teas of the homeland from oldest surviving dialcet in China, which held the third prize, my mum- and as some aflirm, the originalam minded to give up all these the deliberate machine-gunning with national policy and emigrants abroad, is mostly Chinese language is naturally sweep-atake billets and to strength of neutral vessels after the diplomacy. There will come a consumed within the country it-rich in the wealth of phrases money, but it I due have the strength bombs have done their work, time, it is much to be feared, self. The annual amount which which refer to "tea." Thus to of mind to doc so in the second half

of the season I know not. must be has not yet had a chance to when the British people will be is necessary

indeed give a few common examples,

8th-Reading in the newes sheetes tea-houses are one may mention the oft-heard

I fearn that at Canton the water- ferment. The British public is roused to such an extent that enormous; for

phrase: "Te'cny yan-ch'a"-

works and power stallon be heavily generally slow to anger. But they will willingly seize upon everywhere and their patrons Invite (me) to drink tea (with bombed. And this Inst 1 do tuke to one takes very little risk in pre-war as a weapon to cure the legion. It is in the South where you)" inferring that the speak-bee the old Tin Tang Kuk where G. Thorno and Mr. Garrod did ilve, dieting that when the latest evils which benet the world and they may be said to most abun-er is hinting that he believes these twenty-three years gone, Mr. dantly flourish. There are (or himself entitled to a pourboire and many a merry evening have I news of ruthlessness on the part threaten their own hard-won were) some six hundred of these as token payment for some spent there. But that it is the same of Insurgent bombers reaches peace and prosperity. Somebody establishments in

the city of favour rendered. Incidentally, place I am not abundantly assured. Yet dolh it remind mee much of the Britain the tempers of the must uphold the law, even if it Canton alone. Here the ch'a-the usual word for a tip of any, old days, though Mr. Thorne wax kind n ch'e-is'in "tea money," killed in the Great War, and of Mr. people are going to be so roused is only in the protection of

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