Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-05-06
THE GAZETTE.
THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 8.
What shall we Drink.

COLD WATERFOWL water swallowed dur
ing the progress OF digestion, Instantly arrests
1t, aud the process is not resumed until the
water has been there long enough to be warmed
from the temperature at which it was drank,
to that OF the stomach; or from some forty de-
grces to hundred; to accomplish this the
heat must be distracted from the general sys-
TEN chilling it. Strong robust persons may
not feel this, but man in feeble health drink
INC cold water at . meal, at all largely,
from the table chilly, and soon has fever,
while the stomach being kept that much long
err at work in digesting the food, loses its Wig
OF, the digestion Is imperfect, and the food be
comes impure, thus laying the foundation OF
disease. The inevitable inference from these
facts is, that cold water is injurious to health,
Il taken at meals. Injurious TO the person IN
feeble health, if taken at all beyond few swal-
lows at 4 meal.
therefore set it down, as clearly establish
{ fact, that glass or more Of cold water,
frank habtually at meals, or soon after, is a
pernicious practice, even 10 the most healthy.
luiary is done in another manner, water or
any other fluid, dilutes the gastric juice and
thus weakeDs its power TO dissolve the food
The amount OF gastric juice is not lessened
brt its power is diminished by it's dilution.-
The finger will be scalded by dipping it into a
vessel OF boiling water, but If an equal amount
of cold water is added, it may be thrust in with
lmpunlty although there is as much heat in
the mass before; but it is more diffused.
Any kind oil fluid taken largely at meal, or
soon alter, is positively Injurious to the
health.
\ standing item OF advice TO my patients is
take but half glass Of water at a single
meal, or single cup Of weak coffee or tea,
never increasing the strength or quantity, and
drink nothing within an hour after eating.
Cold food is Injurious; thus it is that
some Of the most terrible forms of disease are
brought on by persistence In eating cold food
exclusively, esq ecially in winter time.
WARM DRINIlS.- Ii cold foods are injurious
at meals, we naturally conclude that warm
tluldS, IN moderation, are beneficial, and right
j. 50.
/; then follows, that, il we drink anything
at meals, it should be first warmed.
We may safely admit, that the universal
custom OF 4 country is founded on common
sense, being the teaching of experience.
common sense and the experience of the civil
iycd world is, that a cup of good hot coffee for
breakfast, or cup OF good hot tea for supper,
Is wholesome "-HWS Journal OF Health
pETER CARTWRIGHT AND WIFE.-Peter
cartwright, who is serving his fiftieth year as
Presiding Elder in the NJ, T. Church, writes to
the Central Christian Advocate from Pleasant
Plains, III. IL think it quite probable that
the good Lord will give me my discharge from
labor as my jubilee before our Conference at
Lincoln, and, if SO, it is my desire that this
Conference remember my aged wife. her age
eighty next August, 18th day. We were mar
ried the 18th, 1905 She has, therefore, been
The wife travelling preacher sixty one years
.he 18th OF next August. We have lived to-
gether sixty-one years. She has borne up
under all the hardships, prvat;ons and poverty
ui travelling preacher for nearly sixty one
years. Let the old pioneers of the early days
ct AethodlSm say what sufferings the wife OF
travelling preacher must have gone through in
that time, for although have been regular
travelling preacher sixtyive years next Fall, L
never received my disciplinary allowance for
support from the Church but three years OF
that long travelling lite aud yet. thank God, l
would rather have the comforts | have enjoyed
aS poor, suffering. travelling Methodist
preacher, than to &c President of the United
States -