The Morning herald., 1878-06-24

W1LWlN0TOD. Del. June SAs 1870.
.-ses,t1 frr ION WATER. $3.50 a'4o.
This is the season when people do most
harm to themselves by immoderate and
unwise indulgence in ice water. Few fam
lilies in the most ordinary circumstance fail
to secure q lump Of ice daily, and almost
every honse in the city holds coooler for
the pleasant beverage. The habit has be.
come 40 universal that there are few who.
can drink the ordinary hydrant water in
hot weather at all, and the result is that
city people are habitual swillers Of ice
water to their great injury. If they are
thirsty the cold beverage is poured down !;
II they are heated or tired and while eating
ice water Is demanded and consumed in
quantities..thst would be surprising ifnote
were taken. IF
And yet there can hardly be anything
more certainly harmful. Ifa perspiring
man were to strip himself Of his clothing
and ,shut himself up in refrigerator, he
would be regarded as fool. Yet the
very folly he would psrpetrate upon his
body externally is repeated time and again
by sensible people internally. rM
There is no more doubt that drinking
ice water arrests digestion, than there.is thai
refrigerator would arrest perspiration.
ltdrives from the stomach lis natural heat
suspends the flow of gastric juice and jars
and weakens the delicate organs with
which it comes in contact. i
T. An able writer on human diseases, says:
Habitual ice water drinkers are usually
very fabby about the region of the stom-
ach. They complain that their food lies
heavy on that patient organ. They taste
their dinner for hours after it is bolted
'Tkey cultivate the use Of stimulants to aid
digestion. II they are intelligent they
read upon fsod and what the Psychologist
has to say about it-how long it takes cab
bage and beef and pork and potatoes, and
other mears and esculents to go through
the process of assimilation. They roar al
new bread, hot cakes, fried meat, imagin-
ing them to have been the cause of their
maladies. But the ice water goes down al
the same, and finally friends are called il
to take last look at one whom mysteri-
ous Providence has called to climewher
as far az known, ice water is net used. Th
number Of immortal beings who go henct
return no more on account of The injudi
ious use of ice water cannot be estimated
The inhabitants of the east, the hard
riders of the torrid plains, would stanl
aghast at the character and quantity Of th
beverage we drink. In those hot countrie
very little water is consumed, but wha
there is seldom cooler than the naturs
springs supply. With us ice water is con
mon everywhere, and no matter in wh'
condition we may be physically, we gul
down the ice cold fluid which sends th
perspiration squirting out of every por
chills the intestines, and causes the cor
tents of the stomach to lie like lsade
weight in the body. Such repeated shocl
surely produce discomfort and disease, ar
vet the tender child and the enfeebled o
person. alike are dosed with the injurio
liquid.
The evils resulting to the system fro
these repeated draughts are not contin'
to the stomach. Cold water chills Il
finest teeth and causes the enamel up
them to crack, thus. in time producing d
cay and frequent dental bills.
These are plain facts. The habit
drinking ice cold water is very popul
one and it will lie hard to even check t
abuse which so generally prevails. VIII
heated and tired and painting in the suit
ness of summer there is nothing so tenn
inx az glass of ice water. Then it is wh
the most harm can be done, that we guz
two or three glasses at time and in
B discomfort which invariably follows
chide ourselves for our folly, yet 60 ag'
to The cooler and drench ourselves againa
again. The habit grows and the reactie
which follow indulgence create thirst
more. And 80 we 60, taxing our syste
n and cultivating disessts which sooner or
ter under mine the strongest constitute
and produce most disastrous consequent
What ". here say We know will not
=, pleasing to those who love to fill th
mouths with lie temporarily sooth
l.-l l.,k M, 4 ., "a told the tr1th and 4