The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-07-25
A DANGEROUS DRINK.
the PeriIs Of Iced Tea.

Tne FeftLb Oh Ace0 le1s
The Brooklyn Advertiser thinks iced
tea Is dangerous. It says: Beware the
cup. In these days Of raging thermom.
eters and busy Coroners 1t IL fraught
with peril. Il amAIes Us, sometimes to
think how long the people Of America
have been permitted to go on dallying
With this living death, uDwarned BY The
moniLions Of science. Il Is seldom that
scientific men have been 90 0riminAlly
negligent as they have shown themselves
10 BE- In thls matter Of iced tea. They
have been prompt enoug b 10 warn Us Of
the poisonous qualities Of everything
else We like TO eat and drink, until they
have about blotted out everything ht 70
eat or drink from the bill Of fare, and
starved Us down 10 q bran bread diet,
and now comes along DR.. Holland IN
scribner for July, and assures Us that
the Graham system Of diet starves more
New Englanders to death In SIX months
than die from all other causes in q year.
Blessed be the name Of DR.. Holland for
that statement. BE doesn't put IL quite
90 strongly a. that, but that Is the way
we believe Il. 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 hydrophobia. They have
made rs heart.sick with apprehension BY
showing that the tempting peach in our
hands was reeking with the deadly prus.
sic. They have hlled our icecream with
poisonous impurities. They have forbid.
den Us 10 drink water that has passed
through iron pipes or lead pipes, or that
has stood In q wooden vessel, or lain In q
cemen,ed cistern, or rippled from the
rock Of the hillside, impregnAted with
heaven and chemistry only know what
awful substances, until one restriction al.
ter another has made 1t the only safe
way for man to get drink Of water,
for him 10 lie down on his back, and 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 i'm
pairs the digestion. Large doses OF II
produce palpitation OF the heart. 1t 10
adulterated with Venetian red and native
sesquioxolde OF iron. Il has also warned
Us against the use OF warm tes, bread
and butter, meat, vegetables, fruit, grain,
roots, berries, milk and similar articles
as food. Singular enough, science has
not yet assailed ice tea.
But 1t will rot do TO permit people to
enjoy this cool, delightful beverage, sim.
ply because its taste is grateful 70 the
wearied system during the scorching
weather. We must do our duty, though
science may shrink from It, and the peo.
pie may cry out against US. There is
danger 10 iced tea, and, II you would live
long and well, shun the cooling cup.
We have not the space to devote to an
extended discussion Of this matter, and
can only cite few instances from losg
series Of carefully made experiments,
which cannot fail TO carry conviction to
the most credulous mind.
On June 10, Of this year, John G.
Hampstead, OF West Hill, began 10 drink
iced tea at dinner and supper. he kept
up this practice for nearly three weeks,
aud then one day going down the Diyis-
ion street steps, he slipped and fell, Abra.
ding the skin on both legs, and running
silver into the ball OF his thumb
so far that Il made his teeth ache
when he pulled it out. hi. clothing was
also considerably torn. When he went
home that evening he learned that his
eldest boy had been whipped at school
for sticking pin a. lar through another
boy as the head would let it 20. he was
warned to quit drinking iced tea, but he
persisted in the practice, and be is now
sleeping 10 the valley, between West and
Forth Hill, where he lives, and says he
never felt so wellin his life. But may be
he lies about il.
Henry Esterfeldt Of Eighth street,
drank iced tea regularly every summer for
three years. he noticed that after drink.
ing it about two months his boots began
to run over at the heel. He persisted,
and one Sunday afternoon while he was
out driving, his horse ran away and
smashed Sl7 out Of borrowed buggy.
He paid the money, but neglected the
warning. He went on drinking iced tea,
aud in iess than six weeks somebody
poisoned his dog. There statements eau
all be verified by writing to Mr.. Eater.
feldt, who IL now living in Kansas City,
the father OF eleven children, all Of whom
inherit their fathers vice.
A young woman who did plain sewing
in this city, while employed in the family
Of Ralph Henderson, Of Maple street, be-
came addicted during the summer to the
use Of iced tea. She soon ran q sewing
machine needle through her thumb. and
for many days. whenever she picked up a
cup OF iced tea, q sharp pain ran through
her thumb. She refused 10 obey the
warning however. and in ak months she
was carried away. The man who carried
her away married her first, and they are
now living in Sagetown.
Last week at the beginning Of the heat
ed term, two eminent scientific gentlemen
OF Burlington took 3 strong, healthy,
black.and.tan dog immersed him in tub
Of pure ciatern water, into which 4 weak
solution Of iced tea had been poured.
They held the dogs head under the water
fifteen minutes, although he struggled
violently, thus showing the natural and
instinctive aversion TO 4 substance which
intelligent human beings blindly and
eagerly drink, and when the gentlemen
took him out Of the tub be was quite dead.
II teacupfnl OF weak iced tea, 10 tub
full Of wafer, will kill dog, think for
yourselves what must be the effect Of
strong, undiluted cup Of this decoction
upon the system Of weak womaul
Last summer lumber-puller in the
employ F. 7. Parson & Co, Of this city,
declared that be could live on iced tea.
Before he had time TO go up TO his board.
ing house, however, he fell of the raft
upon which he was At work and drowned.
A single drop Of iced tea poured upon
the tongue Of living rattle snake will
produce the most startling effect. instau.
lily causing the man who administers II
10 Ay for his life, and his life will be In
imnieut danger unless be distances the
snake before the first turn.
Eleven grains Of strychnine, mixed in
a tablespoonful OF iced tea, will kill the
Oldest man in America.
These instances and facts might be
multiplied BY scores, We have said
enough, however. to warn every person
Of the danger that lies In the tempting
goblet Of iced tsa. II suffering and death
ensue from its continued use, the Hdrk.