Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-07-12
THE IcE-cREAM HABIT.
Bob Burdette Philosophers on the Total
Depravity of Its Victims.

Depravity of Its Victims.
1t is thankless task to warn young
people of the evils OF over-indulgenee
in cooling viands aid drinks during the
heated term; Young people will be
young people, but not very long if they
Keep on gorging that insidious foe to
health and life-ice cream. There is
death, and, what is worse, premature
old age in the freezer.
On an unlucky day last summers ali
innocent friend of mind began to eat
iee=efeain every Sunday: In spite OF
the warnings of his friends he kept Up
this practice for nearly three weeks,
and then one day he fell while chasing
a street-car, abrading the skin ON both
his shins and running 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 a fair
fight by d boy not half his size.
Another friend ate iee-eream with
his young comrades every summer for
three years. After eating it about two
months he noticed that his boots began
to run over at the heel. His aged
pastor besought him to abandon the
pernicious habit, and his sweetheart,
with tears and prayers, added her en-
treaties to the minister's. In the for
lorn hope of reforming him the foolish
young girl married him. The next
Sunday after their wedding they were
out driving, when d runaway horse,
driven by the pastor, dashed into them
and knocked thirty-seven dollars out OF
his buggy and famed his horse, the
minister's turnout escaping without a
scratch. Still he neglected the warn.
ing, and in six weeks somebody poi
soned his dog. My friend is now the
father of twins, both of whom, OF
which, inherit or probably will In
herit, their fathers vice.
Another instance / may cite of q
young girl of very prepossessing per.
sonal appearance and engaging man
hers, while employed in the family o.
an acquaintance of ours as governess
became addicted to the ice-cream habit
In short time 1t grew Upon her, ant
began to interfere with her duties il
the school-room. One day, Will,
seated at the sewing-machine she ran {
needle clear through her thumb, an(
for several days thereafter, whenever
she ate ice cream, she felt sharp pail
in her thumb. She disregarded tn,
warning, however, and last week sh'
was carried away. The man who car
ried her away married her when h,
carried her as far as the church, ant
she is now the wife of her employer
worth $50, 900, and can take her slippe
and spank chain lightning out of tn
impudent children that used to bull,
the life out of their poor governess
P. S.-And she does it, too.
A single teaspoonful of ice-crean
dropped upon the tongue of rattle
snake will kill the man that drops
just as quick as the rattlesnake can ge
a crack at him, which will be while h
is measuring the ice-cream.
Fifteen grains of strychnine, nike
with a freezer full of ice-cream, wi
kill as many people as young ma
can stand treat for.
A dog shut up in an air-tight iro
box, for six weeks, and fed upon moth
ing but ice-cream, will die.
A young man whom l knew pre-
sumptuously declared that he coul
live upon ice-cream. He ate fiftee
cents worth and defantly ordere
another dish. While waiting for it, h
heard noise out in the street, and &c
ing out to see what caused it,
steamer, on its way to a fire. knocke
him down and ran over him. An an
bulance was summoned, and Will
waiting to be conveyed to the hospita
the wretched youth died of old age
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