It makes perfect sense to me given the context. Upper class women had time and money to spare on social gatherings and tea, ate copious meals and then tea could

It makes perfect sense to me given the context. Upper class women had time and money to spare on social gatherings and tea, ate copious meals and then tea could help with digestion (they thought at the time). While the poor women of course had none of those. Would you be upset if somebody would recommend now that lower socio-economic classes should try to imitate the time and money spending of upper ones?