Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-08-25
BEWARE TIE PREFER.
The Terrible Fate Which Overtakes tho
Lovers of lee Cream.
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1t is thankless task to warn young
people OF the evils of oyerindulgence Ia
cooling, viands and drinks during the
heated term. Young people will be Young
people, but not very long ii they keep on
gorgiug that insidious foe to health and
life, ice-cream. There is death, aud.
what Is worse, premature old age in ae
freezer.
The 18th day Of July, this present m
mer, James l.. Walsingham of this , itv
began to eat ice-cream every Sunday, In
spite OF the warnings of his friends he
Kept up this practic nearly three weeks,
and then one day he fell while chasing n
street-car, abrading the skin on both his
shlns aud running silver into the ball of
his thumb so far that II made his teeth
ache when he pulled 1t out. When he
went home that evening he learned that
MS eldest boy, OF whom he is very proud.
had been licked in fair fight bv how
not half his size.
Abraham Edridge of Salem ate ice.
cream with his young friends every sum-
Mer Tor three years. After eating Il
about two months he noticed that his
boots began to lun over at the heal His
aged pastor besought him TO abandon
the pernicious habit, and his sweetheart
with tears and prayers added her entrea-
ties TO the minister's. In the forlorn hons
OF reforming him, the foolish voupr girl
married him. The next Sunday after their
wedding they were out driving. when
runaway horse driven by the n.stor
dashed into them and knocked S87 ont
OF Eldridge's buggy and famed his horse,
the minister's outfit escaping without
scratch. Still he neglected the wartime
anu In six weeks somebody poisoned ms
dog. Eldrige Is now the father Of tw,ns
hoth OF whom, or which, Inherit or
PROBABLY will inherit. their fathers vice
Ceceiia Thaxter, a young girl If very
prepossessing personal appearance and
engaging manners, while EMPLOYED in the
family OF Judge Ezra Hankins0n ~ this
Guy as governess, became addicted IN
the ice-cream habit. Ina short time Il
grew upon her and began TO Interfere
WIN her duties In the school-rooID One
uay, wblie seated at the sewing-r, achine
sue ran needle clear through her Thumb
ana Ior several days thereafter v enev.r
sne ave lce'cream she felt sharp main in
her numb She disregarded the earning,
however, and last week she was carried
away The man who carried er away
80 wv hSR Whtn NE carried he, as far
as the church, and she is now n Jndga
hauklnson, worth $4,000 and an tss,.
nef slipper and spank chain liz ing ont
OF the impudent children tina nssd W
onlly the life out of their poor yerness
", D And she does It, too.N
single teaspooniul of ,ce.cream
orppped upon the tongue OF a ttlesnara
WIN kili The man that drops mst as
quick AS the rattlesnake can gct a cracs
~ MINI. which will be while he is meas
urlng the ice.oream, s"s'
Fifteen grains Of strychnine. mixad
with freezer full OF Ice cream, viii tin
a. many people as young man can Stand
louug man named W. S. Thornton
presumptuously declared that he contS
i've upon ice cream. He ate lg cents,
worth and deaantly ordered a other dIsS
while waiting for it he heard no,se on,
"a the street, and, gong out 10 nee whst
caused It, q steamer on It's way 10 : ars
shocked him down and ran over him AZ
Anloulancs was summoned, and wh5la
waiting to be conveyed to The hosn,tsI
we wretehedyou died OF old age '''
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