Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-24
BEWARE THE FREEZER.
The Terrible Fate Which Overtakes
the Lovers of Ice Cream.
Busdette in BrockIyn Eagle.

1t Is thankless task to warn young
people of the evils of Over-indulgence in
cooling viands and drinks during the
heated term. Young people will be young
people, but not very long if they keep on
gorging that insIdous foe to health an d
life. ice cream. There is death, and, what
Is worse, premature old age In the free
zer.
July 10, this present summer, James l..
Walsingham OF this city began to eat ice
cream every Sunday. In spite OF the
warnings of his friends he kept up this
practice nearly three weeks, and then one
day he fell while chasing street car,
abradIng the skin on both his shins and
running silver into the ball OF his thumb
so far that it made mis- teeth ache when he
pulled 1t out. When he went home that
evening he learned that his eldest boy, OF
whom he is very proud, had been licked
in a fair fight bv a boy not half his size.
Abraham Eldridge, of Salem, ate ice
cream with his young friends every sum-
mer for three years. After eating it about
two months be noticed that his boots be-
gan to run over at the heel. His aged
pastor besought him to abandon the per-
nicious habit, and his sweetheart with
tears and prayers added her entreaties to
the minister's. In the forlorn hope OF
reforming him the foolish young girl mar
ried him. The next Sunday after their
wedding they were ont driving. when a
runaway horse driven by the pastor
dashed into them and knocked S37 out OF
Eldridge's buggy and famed his horse,
the minister's outfit escaping without a
scratch. Still he neglected the warning,
and in six weeks somebody poisoned his
dog. Eldridge is now the father of twins,
both of whom, or which. Inherit. or prob
ably will inherit, their fathers vice.
10 a n
prepossessing personal appearance and
engaging manners, while employed In the
family of Judge Ezra Hankinson of this
CITY, as governess, became addicted to
the ice cream habit. In a short time it
grew upon her and began to interfere
with her duties in the school room. One
day, while seated at the sewing machine
she ran a needle clean through her thumb.
and for several days she felt a sharp pain
in her thumb. She disregarded the warn
ing. however, and last week was carried
away. The man who carried her away
married her when he carried her as far as
the church, and she ia now Mrs. Judge
Uankin son. worth $50, 900, and ca n take her
shipper and spank cham lightning out OF
the impudent children that used 10 bully
the lite out OF their poor governess. (P. s..
And she does 1t, too.)
A single teaspoonful of ice cream drop
xiii the man tnat dropsit just as quick as
the rattlesnake can get crack AT him,
which will be while he is measuring the
Ice cream.
Fifteen grains OF strychnine, mixed
with freezer full of ice cream, will kill
as many people as young man can stand
treat for.
A dog, shut in an alright iron box for
six weeks and fed upon nothing but ice
cream, will die.
A young man named w. ;. thornton
presum ptuously declared that he could
live uuon ice cream. he ate fifteen nts'
worth, and defantly ordered another dish.
While waiting for it he heard a noise
out In the street, and, going out
10 see what caused it, a steamer
on its wav TO a fire knocked
him down and ran over him. An ambu-
lance was summoned, and while waiting
10 be conveyed TO the hospital the
wretched youth died OF old age.