http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/12/drinking-tea-was-once-considered-an-irresponsible-reckless-pursuit-for-women/ Keeping You Current Sun, 19 May 2013 12:51:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/12/drinking-tea-was-once-considered-an-irresponsible-reckless-pursuit-for-women/comment-page-1/#comment-2632 Tina Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:35:28 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/?p=8129#comment-2632 It must have worried them to see the solidarity of habits amongst the working poor. What if they had time on their hands and communicated together. Blink. It must have worried them to see the solidarity of habits amongst the working poor. What if they had time on their hands and communicated together. Blink.

]]> http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/12/drinking-tea-was-once-considered-an-irresponsible-reckless-pursuit-for-women/comment-page-1/#comment-2587 Sinabhfuil Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:49:38 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/?p=8129#comment-2587 Serious conversation? Is that why the lads like to be together without their wives? The Quakers had a point; tea was enormously expensive (at one stage tea and sugar constituted 20% of the Irish food bill) http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/295a Serious conversation? Is that why the lads like to be together without their wives?
The Quakers had a point; tea was enormously expensive (at one stage tea and sugar constituted 20% of the Irish food bill) http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/295a

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