16 JUNE 1917, Page 14

HOW TO SAVE SUGAR ?

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."'

Sra,—If nobody in the United Kingdom took sugar in tea, we could dispense with the importing services of at least one steamer with a "dead-weight" cargo capacity of abopt 3,200 tons, or two of the 1,000-ton steamers mentioned in the weekly reports of losses. Putting sugar into tea is spoiling two good things. if you must take sugar in a beverage, why not put it into your glass of port -wine? In China and Japan, where tea is produced, and in Russia millions of people drink tea, and they would as soon put salt into