Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-04-26
HOT MILK.
How Ladies May Preserve Their Health
and Beauty.
TFrom The New York Tribune /

From the New York Tribune.
ooh, Pm exhausted with this shopping"
exclaimed a well-dressed woman as she
dropped into a seat in restaurant that
caters to the tastes of shoppers. What
shall we order?" she added to her COM
panion. "Tm too tired to eat anything
heavy; let's have an ice, chocolate
eclaire and some saltwater. | must eat
something, or l shall look forty when
Charlie meets us at the matinee
any dear child" said her elder COM
panion. alet me give you word of advice.
The chief aim of every sensible woman to-
day is to keep healthy. With health the
preservation of good looks is compare
lively easy task; without it, useless
struggle. Yonr body is exhausted now by
shopping and you have no appetite. If
you want something that will nourish your
tagging powers, without overlooking your
stomach, order glass Of milk and order it
hot-as hot as you can sip it. You may
not like il while you are drinking it, but
after you have once experienced the sooth-
ing effect it soon has on your nerves and
the added strength it seems almost imme-
diately to impart, you will not be deferred
from using it because Of its peculiar taste"
Now, don't swallow it so fast and in
such big gulps," she added, as her COM
panion was drinking the hot milk which
had been ordered just about as one would
toss off glass of soda-water before the
effervescence was all over. Sip it slowly.
Take four minutes at least to finish that
glassful, and don't take more than good
teaspoonful at one sip. My husband is a
doctor, you know, my. dear, and / have had
to listen to good many dissertations on
the chyme and the chyle and the gastric
juice, and all the other troublesome and
unpleasant things which 90 to aid the dis
agreeble, bat indispensable, function of
digestion; for / was once fearfully fast
eater myself, but he cured me of it, and I
am going to give you a little lecture now.
when the milk goes into your stomach
1t is instantly eUrdled. If you drink a
large quantity at once it is cgrdled into
one big mass, on the outside OF which only
the juices of the stomach can work. If
you drink it in little sips. each little sip is
curdled up by itself, and the whole glass
full finally finds itself in loose lump made
up Of little Jumps. through, around and
among which the stomach's juice may per-
colate and dissolve the whole speedily and
simultaneously.
Many people who ike milk and know
its value as a strength-giver, think they
can not use it because it gives them indi-
gestion. Most of them could use it freely
if they would only drink it in the way l
have described, or if they would, better
still, drink it hot. Hot milk seems 10 lose
a good deal of its density; you would al
most think it had been watered, and it
also seems to lose much Of its sweetness,
which is cloying to some appetites. If the
poor only knew and appreciated the value
of milk taken in this way am sure there
would not be so much beer drinking among
them. There are thousands of hard-work-
ing scrubwomen, washwomen, factory girls
and even shop girls in this city who drink
beer with their meals because it gives
little stimulant to their tired bodies, and
don't understand that it is only like APP
plying whip to a weary horse instead of
giving him oats. If they only knew they
would find in this simple draught as much
real strength as in barrel of beer.
In TACT, hot food generally. is coming
more and more into favor among sensible
women who are wideawake as to the effect
on their beauty of good health. Ices and
indigestion go hand in hand, cold drinks
and dyspepsia lie down together and warm
bouillon is getting to be as common as tea
at receptions, at homes and ) O'clock teas"