Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-09-05
PERIL OF ICED TEA.


fraught with peril. Scientific men, learned
men in the professions, have compelled US to
drop the luscious strawberry, in terror, by
screaming out to us that it would give US hy.
drophobia. They have made Us heartsick
with apprehension by showing that the tempt.
ing peach in our hands was reeking with
deadly aprussic acid. They have filled our
ice cream with poisonous Impurities They
have forbidden US to drink water that has
passed through iron or lead pipes, or that
has stood in wooden vessel, or lain in &C.
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 has made
it 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 shower. Sci.
ence has kindly warned US of the death that
turks in the coffee cup. The cup that bless
es the breakfast table impairs the digestion.
Large doses of it produce palptation of the
heart 1t is adulterated with Venetian red
and native sesquioxide of iron. Science has
also warned US against the use of warm tea,
bread and butter, meat, vegetables, fruit,
grain, roots, berries, milk. and similar articles
as food. Singularly enough, science has not
yet assailed iced tea. But it will not do to
permit people to enjoy this cool, delightful
beverage, simply because its taste is grateful
to the wearied system during the scorching
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 in.
stances of carefully made experiments.
On the 10Th of June, John C. Hampstead,
of West Hill, began to drink iced tea at din
ner and supper. He kept up this practice
for nearly three weeks and then one day,
going down the Davidson street steps, slipped
and fell, abrading the skin of both legs, and
running silver into the ball of his thumb so
far that it made his teeth ache when he pull
ed it out. His clothes wre also considerably
torn. When he went home that evening he
learned that his eldest boy had been whipped
at school for sticking pin as far through an.
other boy as the head would let it 60. He
was warned to quit drinking iced tea, but he
persisted in the practice, and he is now sleep
ing in the valley, between West and North
Hill, where he lives, and says he never felt
so we'll in his life. But maybe he lies about
it.
Henry Esterfeldt, of Eighth street drank
iced tea regularly every summer for three
years. He persisted. and one Sunday after.
noon while he was dht driving, his horse ran
away and smashed seventeen dollars out of a
borrowed buggy. He paid the money, but
neglected the warning. He went on drink
ing iced tea, and in less than six weeks some.
body poisoned his dog.
A young woman who did plain sewing in
this city, while employed in the family of
Ralph Henderson, of Maple street, became
addicted to the use of iced tea. She soon ran
a sewing machine needle through her thumb,
and for many days, whenever she picked up a
cup of iced tea, sharp pain ran through that
thumb. She refused to obey the warning,
however, and in six weeks she was carried
away. The man who carried her away mar
ried her first.
Last week at the beginning Of the heated
term, two eminent scientific gentlemen, of Bur
lington, took strong, healthy, black and tan
dog and immersed him in tub of pure cls-
tern water, into which weak solution OF lcea
tea had been poured They held the dogs
head under the water fifteen minutes, although
he struggled violently, thus showing natural
and instructive aversion to substance which
intelligent human beings blindly and eagerly
drink, and when the gentlemen took him out
of the tub he was dead. If a teacupful oficed
tea in tubful of water will kill dog, think
for yourselves what must be the effect OF a
strong, undiluted cup ofthis decocton upon the
system of weak woman.
Eleven grains of strychnine mixed in a
tablespoonful of iced tea will Kill the oldest
man in Observation-Disclosures Haoheye.
~ Whatever you wish your chilc to be, he
it yourself. If you wish it to be happy, 80
Der, truthful. afectionate, honest and godly,
be yourself all these If you wish it to be
lazy and sulky, liar and thief, drunkard
and swearer, be all these yourself