12 JANUARY 1895, Page 14

INTEMPERANCE IN TEA. [To THE EDITOR Of THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR —The

seventeenth century seems, occasionally, to have

excelled the nineteenth in the immoderate use of tea, though chiefly perhaps as a medicine. When tea first came into

fashion in France, Madame de Sevigne wrote:— "La princess° en prend douze tasses tons lea jours. Cola, dit-elle, la gu6rit de tons ses maul. Elle m'assura quo M. le Lamigrave en prenait quarante tasses tons lea matins.—Mais, madame, ce n'est peut-etre que trente ?—Non, c'est quarante ; II etait mourant, cela le ressuscite vue d'ceil."

—I am. Sir, 4, E. C. PRICE.

Malvern IVells, January 7th.