The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-08-11
SUMMER DRINKS.
Refre.h..eni i. He. weather.


the matter very briefly, when we ar overcome |
with heat, nature proposes the refreshing pleas
ure OF a draught; but, unfortunately, this is ex-
actly the time when science points out the folly |
of INDUCING what would appear to be very |
sensible craving. Doctors calmly tell US that |
the floss of huid by perspiration must be com
pensated, but, beyond this, il is well not to
drink excessively Yet we are no nearer solv-
ing the problem how TO supply the loss of fluid
without Inconvenience or danger. We may take
il rs a broad rule that whatever il essentially
pleasant is radically wrong, for science seems
never TO be satisfied, unless il ridicules the folly
of indulging in pleasurable sensations. IL peo-
pie battle when they are hot, they are likely to
come out IL a formidable rash perhaps resulting
in a skin disease, which may prove ineurable; or
they may suddenly drop down dead; and yet il
is exactly when the body is in a splendid glow
of perspiration that the athlete Graves for u
the imperative one, never to drink while You are
hot. A cold drink is as dangerous and occasion
ally as fatal, as a cold bath. At such times, the
inclination is provoked by a list of cooling cups
and delicious drinks, which We must avoid as a
mad dog avoids water Ice is the very worst |
thing heated man can possibly touch. He has /
a natural craving for it in any known form, and |
with every possible combination. Pour over /
the pure, glittering block of Wenham Lake, |
clear rs crystal as it is, a foaming BOTTLE of |
champagne, ruby flow of elaret, the sweet |
and apple-scente,l cider; stream into the jug OF
bowl soda or apollnaris water, setzer or potash;
heap in the lemon-peel and the sugar, carefully |
mixed beforehand; dash in the orange brandy, |
craftily suggested as corrective; and crown |
the sparkling fluid with the blue blOssOmed Dor
age. the green peel of cucumber or the yellow |
skin of lemon and shall be told that the re- |
suit is just 50 much poison to the heated body. |
Allule to beer, foaming and sparkling IN what |
Mr.. Bob Sawyer called g its native pewter and
il can be scientifically shown that thirst there
by is materially increased, and that the liver
proportionately suffers. lee is fatal, mineral
waters are facilitating, liquors coying,
brandy and soda water is medical abOmina-
ton; it is monstrous thing, are solemnly
warned, to drink between meals, or to indulge
these sudden thirst paroxys SINS far better is it,
if we only knew it, never to drink at all when
the throat is parched and the tongue cleayes to
the roof of the mouth; but if, mildly adds the
medical mau, such cravings irresistible, bet
ter take little nnnrishing barley water, or a
cup of warm tea, The paradox is calmly pro-
pounded that iced drinks only make the drnker
hotter in the end while boiling tea induces Il
refreshing GOODNESS, and under any eircumStan-
ees, it is better to put some restraint the in
clination, than TO imbibe inordinate quantities
of fluid.
% Unquestionably, people do drink great deal
too much in hot weather, and unduIy stimulate
their abnormal thirst, and it is unnecessary to
point out the valid medical reasons against such
excess; but then it must be remembered that
the flesh is weak, and il requires a considerable
amount of courage to turn herOically away from
the deftly-coneocted cup, and martyr-like, to
add fuel 10 the iame by pouring down the throat
jornm of scalding tea. IL is not essential TO
the controversy to notice whether these kindly
doctors always practice what they preach or
become systematic tea-,rinkers or barley-water
CONSUMERS, in hot weather. Cases have been
known in which eminent medical men haze clO-
quently discussed the danger of any man drink
ing more than pint of wine day, and that of
harmless light claret, while, at the same time,
they were doing their best to consume the great
part Of bottle of 1S;l port after dinner Ii
must, however, be admitted that the circunl-
stances of hot weather exercise are very trying.
The game at lawn tennis has been vigorously
contested. opponents have had the knark of 80
placing the hall TO insure a considerable
amount of running about condition is not eN-
actly what it should be; the players prrspirc
freely, but have time To indulge in the lGNu-
~ of moiStening the lips during The game
and, at last, after final struggle, the =. Sctt is
complete. On glittcring table, near a cool ar
b0r, is array of bottles and sparkling glasses.
Clarct and champagne are cheek by jUwl jug
of fresh spring wafer stands ready To the hand. |
a glass dish contains nubby lunPs of tranSpar-
ent ice, kind maiden or companion, pityiug
the condition Of the players, offers to victor
yanquished the consolation of loving cup
mixed by clever fingers. Why, Tantalns him
self had no such torture, though he betrayed the
secrets intrIIsed to him by scus; and To talk of
warm tea, under such circumstances, is little
removed from the impossible the absurd.
Change the scene to q summer holiday excursion
on the river Thames. Those last few miles ON
au exposed reach have been accomplished with
desperate endeavor; there has been too much
idling on the banks, or picking flowers among
the bankwaters; 1t has been necessary 10 make
up for lost time, in order to reach the nights
haven, and now behold the delicious cool of the
shelterins lock. The water tricking down the
green and ooZy Sides of the old pound" half
maddens the thirsty rowers. When the Sluccs
are opened and the food pours in, the eyes seem
to sparkle, and there is prolonged shout for
drink. Warm ginger beer and tepid lemonade
can be obtained in the lock keepers house for
the asking; but in the boats stern are the ice,
the claret, and the soda water. Where, ut that
moment the doctors directions. Thrown,
perhaps, to the dogs, like his physics, and the
oarsman, hopping his face meanwhile, pOurs the
cooling liquid down his throat. Yet one more
scene. 1t has been n frightful tug up that
Alpine pass, from the heated valley To the
freshing snow. The parching dust is thick upon
the narrow, stony path; the flies, poisonous and
vindictve, have been maddening. now stinging
the mules launches, and now irritating the pc
destTian's face and neck: miles and miles have
been travelled up the steep roads and over the
stony plains; the crowning inn is reached at
| last, and what can he more grateful than Il book
of beer, drawn cool from the cellar, or at II
pinch simple glass of Swiss kiTsch well diluted
with water! Or, most refreshing drink yet
| tasted by man, when the weary pedestrian,
mounting TO Murrcn or the old Right, or TO the
grasses an ice-cold spring of pure water. babblng
over the polished stones, it is almost contrary To
nature to refuse the temptation of kneelng
| down at the foUnt, and with the same impulse,
bathing the heated forehead, and satisfying the
| torturing thirst.
There is n chapter in Mr.. Dickens admirable
| Dictionary of the Thames devoted to Soups,
| cocktails, and grogs,r which makes the reader
positively thirsty i'll the pcrusal, and from it we
gather that the manufacture of cooling drinks is
of n good mixer, and can not reasonably doubt
| that, as we are sagely told, his receipts shave
successfully passed through the ordeal of pract-
| cal experience but, for all that, of the
| medical journals is not far wrong when it de-
elares that, ''if any enterprising caterer should
| he able to devise an agreeable drink, which is
neither too stimulating, medicated with
salines ferruginous compounds, phOsphates,
| but simply nourishing, like barley-water, he
| would confer public benefit, and command
support" Unquestionably, the hasty consump-
ton of drinks too severely iced, gives n shock
| 10 the system which is dangerous in the extreme.
| IL it does not cause an acute nervous pain over
| either eye, it may induce shiverng fits at night
"a kind of aceentuated ague-which is not
pleasant in a lonely Swiss valley, cut off from
the help of friends. Alcohol, in hot weather, is
essentially deeterious; ginger beer is provoca-
| tive of dyspepsia IN its most aggravated form (;
mineral waters facilitating in the extreme I;
| the difficulties attending the undue consumption
of braintonical liquids are sufficiently alarming
aud only very experienced travellers understand
| the value of flask of cold, strong tea, with a
dash of lemon-juee in it. The most curions
change that has occurred in the habits of the
middle classes, is the modern neglect of good
| English ale and beer. The laboring and artisan
| classes stick to the once national beverage, and
would he inclined to curse the seOundrel who
would 'rob poor man of his beer" but few
young men, nowadays, even in hard exercise,
can drink beer after they have arrived at the
| age of Internationally. Yet it was Bishop Of
Bath and Wells, John Still, suecessively
Master of st. johns and Trinity College, Cam
| bridge, author of the second comedy ever writ
ten, "Gammcr Gurton's Needle who composed
| the finest ode TO beer written in the Eng
lish language. 81 can not eat but little meat !;
Ny stomach is not good; But sure / think that
/ can drink with him that wears n hood.
Though go bare, take We no care, i nothing am
a-cold; stuff my skin 81 full within, of jolly
/ rnod ale and old BACK and side 20 hare-gO