The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-09-12
WORDS OF WARNING.
HEALTH HINTS TO BE Needed DUR.
ING THE HOT SEASON.
Drinks One Should Avoid-Sugar Very
Heating-Ice Water Upon Empty
cmach-CooIing the Wrists
Good Philosophy.


lCompiled.1
A correspondent of The st. James Gaz3tte
writing upon the subject of summer drinks
says:
at should be understood that sugar is
very heating and makes you thirsty al
most as does salt. Upon tho whole there is
nothing better than drink with one in
gredient only, plenty of water, no sugar,
and iced to discretion. Bordeau and water
is as good and safe as anything. Rum
punch and plenty of water is too good for
ordinary sinner If you can bring yourself
to take it, a 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 aid few drops of lemon juice.
Cold tea, however, is as much acquired
taste As is absinthe or kirschwaaser
BEWARE THE BOWL.
1--WE conclude with a few words of warn
ing. All drinks with much sugar or sac
charine matter in them ultimately aggra-
vate thirst. Beer, even i'll the form of
shandygaff, ought never to be touched in
summer time, except sparingiy at meals.
Spirits of any kind arc distinctly objection
able Gin is perhaps the most harmless, and
brandy the least OF course there is spirit
in punch. which have recommended; but
punch is a curious compound, in which tho
softaned down.
"Avoid spirits. Absinthe and lirchwasser
cool you as would a small dose of Scheee'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 in distress of
thirst. To drink is not q duty, even in
weather like this; and the tumbIer should
never be filed under any thing short Of con.
scious e5sity."
FREEZING DRAUGHTs.
"Ices and iced drinks" says The London
Standard, i'll warning way. "are now SO
common III hot weather-from the iced
champagne with which the diner-out ac
companies and the iced pudding with which
he unwisely concludes his dinner to the de-
icous haporth with which the street boy
delightfully."- cools his tongue-that we
habitually forget the insult which sudden
lump or lraught of freezing matter offers
to the much enduring stomach. DR.. Muter
adds to his report on cheap ices, q rider
which, though often forgotten now, was u
truism thirty years ago. The mere fact of
the hasty consumption of ice upon hot day
and an empty stomach would in itself fro
auently cause unpleasant results 1t is also
clear that in threatening Us with death as
the penalty of drinking cold water-ice was
then rare luxury-when were hot our
grandmothers grossly exaggerated the truth
for since their time the use OF chilled drinks
and foods have become almost universal,
even i'll England. but absolutely so in the
United States.
THE PAIN, THE BLISS.
"NeverthelesS, there truth i'll what
they said. People III America pay very
heavily in digestion and vitality for the
hasty joy which they perpetually
snatching from draughts of water at the
frap int Il VIII oil
at a very respectful distance, by any means
escape the penalties of imprudence. And
the odd thing is that cold drinks are after
all, very Indifferent remedy for heat
"The poor Fijian, in the fever of measles
PUSHES 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
minute-and only for Ilinute-that what
an lrishman calls "the seaside thirst
IS hunted out OF every Iuare inch of his
body. But the evil spirir returns bringing
with ii seven others mo o clamorous than
itself. For 4 really cooling drink, if one
will but wait for five I5tes for the effect
hot ten is better than M st things, and, as
Anglo-Indians know, thj wrist held under a
tap Of running water bis moro than any
GOOD rHud opuY.
"Washinston Irving, observes The New
York Tribune, "once sal ITO lady friend:
Don't be too anxious ABOUT the education
of your daughters. Thet will do very we'll;
don't teach them one taing.' and what
may that one thing beg Inquired the lady
Teach them,' counseled the author of The
Sketch Book TO be easily pleased
mo more sensible piece of advice could
well lie given to per>piring Americans who
go about these days finding the crasshopper
a burden. The best way to keep cool and
serene is not by putting a cabbage leaf in
ones hat, is not by putting ice-water in
ones stomach yet by tarrying long at
the straw that leads to mixed drinks. Such
devices are not to be despsed. but the most
effective weapon with which to ward off the
heat is the fine art of being easily pleased.
The man who is easily pleased is man that
can rely upon his digestion, and digestion,
as everyb body know, is half the battls of
Life even Mhan ti,n rnarcurv is stand1,,cr n