The two months have elapsed within which it was to be left to our readers to decide whether the " North-Chias Daily News" should retain or cast out the "e" in judgement; and the word at the top of this article will indicate which way the voting has gone, To be exact the two months were ended on the 12th, Bat in such questi Iatitade may well be allowed, There might have moment, for whom all possible allowance had to be made, Ae a matter of fact the votes have from the bo-ginning gone steadily in favour of the "e", and the Goal proportions stand 81 por cent, cou. t for tea, te sum frighte me." course the husbands of the tim~ had put op with the fashion—as they have ever had to do—and ten h. 1d itx ground: As LordiLi said, "Eneli-h social fife has been quietly but deeply influenced ever by the introduction of tea, Thr b Empire way of its expansion to the soft stiroulation of Prkoe and Oulong, for we read of Ca and Acstralian pioneers advancing more on ten than on avy other liquid support And again—"T would not Labour the: point too far, bat was it not over tex. that the split occurred between the mother-country and her daughter The only point that Lord Li could criticize in the Evglish the cup site on the saucer, whereas with 8 the saucer sits on the cup an a sort of cover, partly to and partly to keep it hot." Tt is un-radons to be continually carping, yet we cannot refrain from suggesting Lord Li hho, with his practical experience of the Eoglish live of tea, might well imprese upon his Government. There is riv need to recall how China teas, having been once supreme, at the royal price of sixteen or eightesa shillings, were nearly beaten out of the market by one-andfourpenoy Indian and Ceylon, To-day, thanks to the energy of the Ohina Tes Association, the outlook is more pro ising, and every British grocer of ans standing stocks and finds a market for Chins teas. Bot while there is an-doubtedly room at home for both Indian and China teas, the efforts of the Association can bardly be maintained unless the Chinese Goveroment prepared to take some practical interest in the matter. Something has beea done in th past, and in 1908 the Castrms Taotais kow and Shanghai were ordered to pay the Association Tls. 6,000 each forane year, in appreciation of its efforts, Whether that contribution is to be renewed we are not aware; bat in case there is any doubt on the matter a word Among the argoments advanced by the la'ter, convenience is the most pro~ minent, "As to the difficaly of pronantion" aays one Writ much worse than ment '",—forgetting—apparo ference between the sibilant *s"? and dental "d" when followed by acmont" (partly og a remedy against the ecentuation adveitisenent) and therefore, without greatly caring bat for consistency, votes for "judgment One pathetic case may be quoted." have always been accustomed t" the use of ¢', though both dictionaries io possession Preference to the spelling without Upon inquiring of my children I find they have been taught to spell the word without the only to enable this writer to look his children in the face, we must ante some of the authorities given by correspondents on the other Thos we are given:—Revised Version of 1885 and 1895, printed for the Uni of Oxford and Cambridge od published by Henry Frowde, Oxford Wareh use, and i, J. Day, Cambridge Warehouse; also two Prayer Books, without date, but containing the Accession Prayer for -'annary 22
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