Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-08-11
Beware of Ice Cream.

Bob Burdette.
1t is thankless task to warn young
people of the evils of cver-indulgence
in cooling viands and drinks during
the heated term. Young people will
be young people, but not very long,
ifthey keep on gorging that insidious
foe to health and life-ice cream.
There is death, and, what is more,
premature old agein the freezer. On
an unlucky day last summer, and in
nocent friend of mine began to eat
ice cream every Sunday. In spite of
the warnings of his friends he kept
up this practice nearly three weeks,
then one day he fell while chasing a
street car, abrading the skin on both
his shins, and running a silver into
the ball of his thumb so far that it
made his teeth ache when he pulled
it out. When he went home that
evening he learned that his eldest
boy, of whom he is very proud, had
been licked in fair fight by a boy
not half his size. Another friend ate
ice cream with his young comrades
every summer for three years. After
eating it about two months, he MOTTO
ed that his boots began to run over
at the heel. His aged pastor be-
sought him to abandon the PERM
cious habit, and his sweetheart, with
tears and prayers, added her entIeat-
les to the minister's. In the forlorn
hope of reforming him, the foolish
young girl married him. The next
Sunday after the wedding they were
out driving, when runaway horse,
driven by the pastor, dashed into
them and knocked thirty seven dol
lars out of his buggy and famed his
horse, the minister's turnout escaping
without scratch. Still he neglected
the warning, and in six weeks some
body poisoned his dog. My friend is
now the father of twins, both of
whom, or which, inherit or probably
will inherit, their fathers vice. An
other instance / may cite of "a young
girl of very prepossessing personal
appearance and engaging manners
while employed in the family of an
acquaintance of ours as governess, be-
came addicted to the ice-cream habit.
In short time it grew upon her, and
began to interfere with her duties at
the school room. One day, while
seated at the sewing machine she ran
a needle clear through her thumb,and
for several days thereafter, whenever
she ate ice-cream, she felt sharp
pain in her thumb. She disregarded
the warning, however, and last week
she was carried away. The man who
carried her away married her when
he carried her as far as the church,
and she is now the wife of her en-
ployer, worth $50, 1000, and can take
her slipper andspank chain lightning
out of the impudent children that
used to bully the life out of their poor
governess. (P. S. And she does it t0o.)
A single teaspOonful of ice-cream
dropped upon the tongue ola rattle
snake will kill the man that
drops it just as quick as the rattle
snake can get crack at him, which
will be while he is measuring the
ice-cream. Fifteen grains of strych-
nine, mixed with freezer full of ice
cream, will kill as many people as a
young man can stand treat for. A dog
shut up in an alright iron box, for
six weeks, and fed upon nothing but
ice-cream, will die. A young man
whom l knew presumptuously de-
clared that he could live upon the
cream. He ate fifteen cents worth
and defantly ordered another dish.
While waiting for it, he heard a
noise out in the street, and going out
to see what caused it, a steamer, on
its way to a fire, knocked him down
and ran over him. An ambulance
was summoned, and while waiting to
be conveyed to the hospital, ] the
wretched youth died of old age.