Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1885-09-24
WORDS Of WARNING.
HEALTH HINTS TO BE NEEDED DUR.
ING THE HOT SEASON.
Drinks One should Avoid-Sugar Very
Heating-Ice Water Upon an Empty
Stomach Cooling the Wrists
Good Philosophy.

Compiled
A correspondent of The St James Gazette.
writing upon the subject Of summer drinks
says:
1T should be understood that sugar is
very heating and makes you as thirsty al
most as does salt. Upon the whole there is
nothing better than drink with one in
gredient only, plenty Of wafer. no sugar,
and iced 70 discretion Bordeau and water
Is as good and safe as anything. Rum
punch and plenty of water is too good for
ordinary sinners. IL you can bring yourself
TO take IL, very good and gently stimulat-
ing drink is supplied by cold tea. which
laborers Of all kinds use largely. Your cold
tea should be tea pure and simple. unless
you like TO add few drops of lemon Juice.
Cold tea. however, is as much an acquired
taste as Is absinthe or kirschwaaser
BEWARE THE BOWL
we conclude with few words of warn-
ing. All drinks with much sugar or sac
charine matter in them ultimately agra
vate thirst Bear, even in the form of
shandygaff, ought never to be touched in
summer time, except sparingly at meals.
Spirits Of any kind are distinctly objection
able. Gin is perhaps the mos. harmless. and
brandy the least or course there is spirit
III punch. which have recommended: bot
punch is a curious compound. in which the
worst features of the spirit seem somehow
soft ned down.
Avoid spirits. Absinthe and krchwass
cool you as would a small dose of Scheele's
prussic acid; they directly affect the action
Of the heart. A liquor glass of kirchwasser
taken while fasting will lower the pulse per-
ceptibly. Lastly, never approach your Jug
Of cooling liquor till you are in distress of
thirst. To drink is not n duty, even i'm
weather like this; end the tumbler should
never be filed under anything short of con-
scious necessity"
FREEZING DRAUGHTs-
"lces and iced drinks, says The London
STANDARD, in warning way. ~are now so
common in hot weather-from the i.ed
champagne with which the diner-out ac
companies and the iced pudding with which
he unwisely concludes his dinner, to tn. de-
licious ha'p'orth with which the street boy
delightfully."- cools his tongue-that we
habitually forget the insult which a sldden
lump or draught Df freezing matter offers
to the much enduring stomach. DIR. Muter
adds TO his report ON cheap ices, a rider
which, though often forgotten now. was
truism thirty years ago. The mero fact Of
the hasty consumption of ice upon a hot day
and an empty stomach woald in itself fire.
quently cause unpleasaa II results 1t is also
clear that in threatening US with ieath as
the penalty OF drinking cold water-ice was
then a rare luxury-when we were hot. our
grossly exaggerated the truth
for since their time the use OF chilled drinks
and foods have become almost universal.
even in England, but absolutely 50 in the
United States.
THE PAIN, THE BLISS.
Nevertheless, there was truth in what
they said. People in America pay very
heavily in digestion ami vitality for the
basty joy which they are perpetually
from draughts Of water at the
freezing point, nor do we, who follow them
at very respectful distance, by any means
escape the penalties of imprudence. And
the odd thing i that cold drinks are, after
ali, very Indifferent remedy for heat.
The poor Fijian, in the fever Of measles,
rushes TO the shore and lies down in the
cool, clear waves His bliss for five min
utes must be exquisite. but it is fatal. SO
the man addicted to iced drinks feels for a
only for mnu;e--that what
Hi lrishman calls "the seasble thirst
IS hunted out Of every square inch of his
body. But the evil spirit returns, bringing
with it seven others more clamorous than
Itself. For really cooling drink, il one
viii but wait for five minutes for the effect,
not tea is better than most things, and, as
angio-lndians know, the wrist held under a |
zap OF running water cools more than any
ort of drink
GOOD PHILOSOPHY.
washington Irving, y observes The New /
York Tribune, "once said to a lady friend: /
Don't be too anxious about the education
II yonr daughters. They will do very well; |
lon't teach them one thing And what |
nay that one thing bep inquired the lady.
Teach them.' counseled the author of The |
sketch Book TO be easily pleased
mo more sensible piece os advice could |
veil be given to perspiring americans who /
70 about these days finding tie erasshopper
J burden The best way to keep cool ahi
creme Is not by putting a cabbage leaf in
mes hat. Is not by putting ice-water in
mes stomach, nor yet by tarrying long at
he straw that leads To mixed drinks. Such
Ievices are not to be despised, but the most
Elective weapon with which to ward off the
eat Is the fine art of being easily pleased.
The man who is easily pleased Is a man that
an rely upon his digestion, and digestion.
$ everybody knows, is half the battls OF
lie, even when the mercury is standing at q
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