Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-27

out the impalpable earth and sand which
ever so slightly eolors it, but it will not be-
gin to remove the deadly nitrites and
bacteria which may exist in clear water.
To secure perfectly pure safe drinking water
| for the household it is necessary to boil the
water first and filter it afterward.
AN INEXPENSIVE PURIFIER
| After boiling ten minutes the water sbould
be poured into wooden or stone lar. COW
cred with a cloth and left an hour to cool
| when it may be put into the filter. For a
filter, q new clean flower pot of unglazed
| clay, filled monthly, or rather changed Tor
one freshly charged, is better than most Of
the patents in the market. First cut disk
of cotton flannel to fit the bottom Of the Dot
inside, put on this layer OF clean white
sand an inch thick, then three inches of
| charcoal in very coarse powder, three inches
OF sand above this, and clean, washed gravel
over all, and you have as good filter for a
dollar as you can buy for ten, as far as work.
ing goes. The water must run through this
| IL hours before the charcoal dust washes out
so that the fluid runs clear. The pot should
fit into the top of long stone jar with fau-
Get attached, and the ice be hung in it, tied
in piece of cotton flannel for a primitive
ing the ice last longer.
The only trouble with water so prepared 10
that it tastes fiat from want of air, which
DR.. Currier proposes to supply by clean
| bellows kept for the purpose, but it is more
conveniently done by pouring water from
one pitcher to another several times as foam
| ing drinks are mixed. Or one of the patent
! egg and cake beaters could be used in the
water for few minutes, and the most dis
eliminating palate could hardly fail TO ap-
prove water so refined.
COLD WATER IS HEALTHY.
Last comes the question of cooling the
water, matter which has its economical
side, and, from personal experience, 1 am
very willing to impart the method of check
mating ice monopolies. 1t should be dis
tinctly understood that the idea that ice
water is injurious is mistaken notion, i'm
ported with other English fads, like the
docking of horses names and tails, drawing
the vowels and the "stony British stare"
Spinsters with chronic indigestion, stout
women with their interiors in a state OF con-
slant Inflammation, men whose stomachs are
infamed with regular whisky or wine drink
ing, and people getting over the grip, with
Intervals weak, fevered and irritable to an
incredible degree rightly find ice water in
furious, as cold well water would be poured
over patient in a high fever, or rather like
throwing cold water on a red hot boiler.
Cold water is intolerable to an inhamed eve,
which finds warm water soothing, and in
famed stomachs rebel against sudden chill
Ing draughts in the same way. but nobody
feels that cold water is unsafe for healthy
eyes or healthy throats.
Vino ever thought of refusing to drink of
pure mountain streams flowing from melt
inn ~ 81 1. L. d..
who set down the drinking Of ''ieed water
as trait of American depravities. A race
OF brandy drinkers would always find ice
water dangerous to the raw membrane with
which they are lined from brain to base.
THE ICE MUST BE PURE.
But ice, like water, needs to be clean be-
fore it is fit for drinking, and glance at the
sediment in the ice pitchers is enough to
raise grave doubts of the source of the ice
supply. Made ice from filtered water would
be an ideal cooling substance. But machine
or no machine, the honest citizen may be in
dependent of ice dealers by simple expedi-
ents. He can take a leaf from the expert
ence and practice OF three-fourths of the
globe, who cool their drinks in the natural
way by evaporation in a current OF air.
A housekeeper, not wishing to be both
cred with the care OF ice and icebox in ad-
ditiOn to her other work, kept water and
food cool all one hot summer by this method.
She bought large porous fowerpots, soaked
them over night in water till the clay was
saturated, set her jars of butter and other
food in pans of water on broad shelf out
side the kitchen window and covered each
with an inverted fowerpot, throwing a wet
flannel over the whole. In the shaded
window, with the breeze playing on the
covers, constantly wet from the water in tho
pans, the food kept in as good or better con-
dition than it did on ice. For ice cream she
had whips and mousses of Jelly beaten up
with raw egg and lemon, which 1 advise
anybody to try before they sneer at the idea.
Blanc mango or eustard for ice cream,
beaten up with fruit or without and chilled,
vies with ice creams to any discriminating
taste. and mashed fruit beaten with gelatine
and sugar. chilled Just to the freezing point,
has fullness of flavor which is lost in
freezing outright Try this before you scott
and you will hardly go back to the slavery
OF stirring the freezer for ice creams or the
tame havors of con iectioners' ices.
GOOD NATURE AND DRINK.
The picturesque method of keeping water
once boiled filtered and aerated is in the
Portuguese or Moorish water cooler of burnt
clay, in graceful flask or cruise, with slen-
age, swung from blue or crimson cords in
the window current. The water soaks the
clay, the breeze chills it and the draught Of
such wise is a velvety decoction, surprising
raw water as Lachryma Christi e1cels last
years claret. 1t soothes the inflated mem
branes of throat and the internal organs, Il
acts, in fact, incidentally, healing gastric
and intestinal disorders, promoting sleep,
good humor and healthy action of the
nerves. More than half the ugliness of hu-
man nature comes of internal bodily de-
and every healthy condition of
'ood, air or drink tends to blessing and
when we
Rejoice to see the curse remove
If poor, jaded, physical nature.
'Do you mean to say" asks some good
woman, aghast, ''that there are people who
actually take all this fuss and trouble to
'un off water and boil it and filter it, and
oour it back and forth and cool it or drink
ng?" Yes, madam, there are plenty of
hem. The question of absolutely pure
water is of more serious import this summer
han usual, when countless numbers are
with the general disorder left by
asst winters scourge. SHIRLEY DARE.