The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-08-17
PERIL IN ICED TEA.

PERIL IN ICED TEA.
The Fearful Fate of Those Who Have
Disregarded the Warnings of Science.
From the Burlington Hawkeye.
Beware the cup. In these days of rag
ing thermometers and busy coroners it is
fraught with peril. Scientific men,
learned men i'll the professions, have COM
PEELED us to drop the luscious strawberry
by screaming out to us that it would
give us the hydrophobia. They have
made us heartsick with apprehensions by
showing that the tempting peach in our.
hands Was reeking with the deadly prus-
sic acid. They have filled 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 a wooden vessel, or
lain in a cemented cistern, or rippled
from the rock of the hillside, impreg-
mated with heaven and chemistry only
know what awful substance, until one
restriction after another has made the
only safe way for man to get a 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 i'm
pairs the digestion. Large doses of it
produces palpitation of the heart. 1t is
adulterated with Venetian red and
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 hot do to permit people to
enjoy this cool, delightful beverage,
simply because it is grateful to the wear
led system during this scorching wealth,
er. We must do our duty though
science may shrink from it, and the peo-
pie may cry out against U.s. 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
series of carefully made experiments.
On the 10th of June, John G. Hemp
stead, of West Hill began to drink iced
tea at dinner and supper. He kept up
this practice for nearl y three weeks, and
then one day, going down the Division
street steps, slipped and fell, abradine
the skin on both legs, and running q
silver into the ball of his thumb so fan
that it made his teeth ache when he
pulled it out. His clothing was also
considerably torn. When he went home
that evening he learned that his eldest
boy had been whipped at school for stick
ing a pin as far through another boy as
the head would let it go. He was
warned to quit drinking iced tea, but he
persisted in the practice, and he is now
sleeping in the valley, between West
and North Hill, where he lives, aad SAYS
he never felt 50 well in his life. But
may be he lies about it.
Henry Esterfeldt of Eighth street drank
iced tea regularly every summer fol
three years. He noticed that after
drinking it about two months his boots
began to run over at the heel He per
sisted, and one Sunday afternoon while
he was out driving his horse ran away
and smashed ST. out of borrowed bug
gy. He paid the money, but neglected
the warning. He went on drinking ICED
tea, and in less than six months some
body poisoned his dog.
A young woman who did plain sewing
in this city, while employed in the fam.
lily of Ralph Henderson, of Maple
street, became addicted to the use Of
iced tea. She soon ran a sewing ma.
chine needle through her thumb, anJ
for many days, whenever she picked ur
a cap OF iced tea, a sharp pain ran tC
that thumb. She refused to obey the
warning, however, and in six weeks she
was carried away. The man who carried
her away married her first.
At the beginning of the heated term
two eminent scientific gentlemen of Bur.
lIngton took a strong, healthy, black and
tan dog and immersed him in tub OF
cistern water, into which a weak solution
of iced tea had been poured. They held
the dogs head under water fifteen min.
utes, although he struggled violently,
thus showing the 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 teaspoon
full of weak iced tea in a tubful of water
will kill dog, think for yourselves what
must be the effect of a strong, undiluted
cup of this decoction upon the system
of a weak woman.
Eleven grains of strychnine mixed in
a tablespoonful of iced tea will kill the
Oldest man in America