Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-10
WHOLE NO. 2,25O.
PERIL IN ICED TEA.
The Fearful Fate of Thone who
Have DIsregarded the warnings
Of Science.

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of Science.
Burlington Hawkeye.
Beware OF the cup. In these days
Of raging thermometers and busy
coroners it is fraught with peril.
Scientific men, learned men in the
professions, have compelled us to
drop the luscious strawberry in ter
ror by screaming out TO US that it
would give us the hydrphnbia.
They have made us heartsick with
apprehensions by showing that the
tempting peach III our hands was
reeking with the deadly prussic
acid. They have filed our ice
cream with poisOnOus impurities.
They have forbidden us to drink
water that has passed through iron
pipes or lead pipes, or that has stood
\ in wooden vessel, or lain In a ce-
mented cistern, or rippled from the
rock of the hillside, impregnated
with heaven and chemistry only
know what awful substance, until
one restriction after another haj
made il the only safe way for man
to get drink Of water, for him to
lie down on his back, open his
mouth, and wait for the shower.
Science has kindly warned us OF the
death that turks in the coffee cup.
The cup that blesses the breakfast
table impairs the digestion. Large
doses of it produce palpitatiOn of the
heart. It is adulterated with Ven
etian red and sesquioXide of iron.
Science has also warned us against
the use of warm tea, bread and but
for Vnnnf
roots, berries, milk, and similar ar
ticles as food. Singularly enough,
science has not yet assailed iced tea.
But it will not do to let people
enjoy this cool, delightful beverage,
simply because ii is grateful 90 the
wearied system during this seOrch-
ing weather. We must do our
duty, though science may shrink
from it, and the people may cry out
against us. There Is danger In iced
tea, and If you would live long and
well, shun the cooling cup. We will
cite few instances from a long Sc
ries of carefully made experiments.
On the 10th of June, John @.
of West Hilr began to
drink iced tea, at dinner and sup
per. He kept up this practice for
nearly three weeks, and then one
day, going down the Division street
steps, slipped and fell, abnding the
skin on both legs, and running a
silver into the ball of his thumb so
far that it made his teeth achew when
he pulled it out. His clothing was
also considerably torn. When he
went home that evening he learned
hat his eldest boy had been whipped
1t school for sticking a pin as far
through another boy as the head
would let il go. He was warned TO
Iuit drinking iced tea, but he per-
listed in the practice, and he Is now
sleeping in the valley, between
West and North Hill, where he
ives, and says he never felt so well
n his life. But may be he lies about
t.
Henry Esterfeldt, of Eighthstreet,
frank iced tea regularly every SUM
ner for three years. He noticed
hat after drinking it about two
months his boots began TO run over
Il the heel. He persisted, and one
sunday afternoon while he was out
irving his horse ran away and
mashed Sl7 out of a borrowed bug
". He paid the money, but neg
ected the warning. He went ON
Thinking iced tea, and i'm less than
tx months somebody poisoned his
log.
A young woman who did plain
ewing i'm this city, while employed
n the family Of Ralph Henderson,
f Maple street, became addicted To
he use Of iced tea. She soon ran n
ewing machine needle through her
humb, and for many days, when
yer she picked up cup OF iced tea,
sharp pain ran through that
humb. She refused TO obey the
however, and i'm six weeks
he was carried away. The man
Tho carried her away married her
rst.
Last week, Mt the beginning Of
he heated term, two eminent scien-
fic gentlemen of Burlington took
strong, healthy, black and tan
og and immersed him i'm a tub of
lstern water, into which "A weak
DlutiOn of iced tea had been poured.
hey held the dogs head under
,ater fifteen minutes, although h0
.ruggled violently, thus showing
ne natural and instructive aversion
} a substance which intelligent
uman beings blindly and eagerly
rink, and when the gentlemen
)ok him out of the tub he wa8
cad. fla teacupful of weak iced
n in a tubful Of water will kill
og, think for yourselves what must
e the effect OF strong, undiluted
up of this decotion upon the system
weak woman.
Eleven grains of fstrychnine mixed
! a tablespoonful Of iced tea will
III the oldest man in America.