The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1879-07-31
rnE PERILs OF IoED rKA.


TuE PERILs on ICED TEA.
Beware the cup. In these days of rag
Ing thermometers aud busy Coroners /
is iraught with peril, IL amayes as some
lines, to think how long the people o
America have been permitted TO 20 OF
dallying with this living death, unwsrned
by the monilions OF science. II Is sell
dom that scientific men have been &C
criminally negligent as they have shown
themselves TO be In this matter OF iced
tea. They have been prompt enough to
warn us of the poisonous qualities OF
everything else we like 10 eat or drink
from The bill OF fare, and starved us
down TO bran bread diet, aud now comes
along DR.. Holland in Scribner for July,
aud assures us that the Graham system OF
diet stsryes more New EDglsnders TO
death In six months than die from all
other causes In year. Blessed be the
name OF DR.. Holland for that statement !
lie doesn't put II qnite as strongly as that
but that Is the way we believe il. Scien.
life men, learned men in the professions,
have compelled us to drop the luscious
strawberry In terror, by screaming out to
us that II would give us the hyrophobiH.
They have made us heart sick with appre.
henson by showing that the tempting
peach In our hands was reeking with the
deadly prussic acid. They have filed our
ice cream with poisonous impurities
They forbid us to drink water that has
passed through iron wipes, or that has
stood IN wooden vessel, or lain in
cemenied cistern, or rippled from the
rock of the hillside, impregnated with,
heaven aud chemestry only know what,
awful substance, until one restriction
after another has made II the only safe
way for man to get drink of water for
him TO lie down on bis back, open his
mouth and wait for the shower. Science
has kindly warned us Of the death that
turks 10 the coffee cup. The cup that
besses the breakfast table impairs the di.
gestion. Large doses Of IL produces
Of the heart. II Is adulterated |
with Venetian red and native sesquioxIde
Of iron. 1t has also warned us against
the use of warm tea, bread and butter,
meat, vegetables, fruit, roots, berries,
milk aud similar articles of food. Singu.
lar enough, Science has not yet assailed
ced 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 this scorching
weather. We must do our duty, though
cence may shrink from IT, and the peo
Die may cry out against us. There ia
iaDger In iced tea, and II you would live
ong aud well, sbun the cooling cup. We
lsve not the space TO devote TO an ex.
ended discussion Of this matter, and can
'nIy cite few instances from long
cries of carefully made experiments,
which cannot fail TO carry conviction TO
be most erednlons mind.
On June 10, OF this year, John &.
lempslead OF West Hill began to drink
,ed tea at dinner and supper. He kept
p this practice for nearly three weeks,
nd then one day, going down the Diyis.
1n street steps be slipped aud fell,
braiding the skin on both legs, aud run.
ing silver into the ball Of bis thumb SO
n that IL made his teeth ache when be :
ulIed II out. His clothing was also cou-
derAbly torn. When he went home
lat evening he learned that bis eldest
oy had been whipped at school for stick
X pin as far through another boy as
le head would lei Il go. Ilo was warned
} quit drinking iced tea, be persisted 10
10 practice, and be is now sleeping 10 !,
10 valley, between West aud North Hin,
here be lives, and says be never felt 40
ell In bis life, but may be be lies about
Henry Esterfeidt, of Eighth street,
rask iced les regular every summer for !
lree years. lie noticed that afler drink. .
x II about two months bio boots began .
run over at the heel He persisted, I
nd one Sunday afternoon while be was Q
1t driving bis horse ran away aud
mashed sl7 out OF borrowed buggy. O
9 paid the money bat neglected the 0
arning. He went on drinking iced les. o
ID 10 less than Elk weeks somebody e
,isoned his dog. These statements can "
! be verified by writing to Mr.. Ester. :
ldt, who Is now living 10 Kansas City,
e fatber Of eleven children, sll Of whom u
herit their fstber's vice. =
A young woman who did plain sewing e
this city, when employed ia the family .
Ralph Henderson Of Maple street, be- a
me addicted during The summer TO the D
ie af iced tes. She soon ran sewing z
ashiue needle through her thumb, and q
: many days, whenever she picked up Q
~ oi iced les, sharp palm ran through 7
u thumb. She refused 70 obey tbe
arning, however, and lH sir weeks che :.
AZ carried sway. The man who carried
n away married her frat, and they afe
w living 10 sagetown. &