The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-09-02
How to Keep Water Cool.

How to Keep Water Cool.
The man who expects to refrigerate
the world wit. liquid air has taken ad-
vantage of a fact which the civilized
world forgets, or does not know, name
ly, the fact that evaporation is refrig>
GRAFTON. Huge populations of the earth
have lived on instructive knowledge of
that plain scientific truth for ages. The
North American Indian, the East In,
dian, and all aborigines of countries
that are at times excessively hot, know
how to chill water without recourse to
ice, n the same process that does
that filters it without a filter.
When the water that all who lack the
advantages of progress in sanitation
drink comes often in the hottest
weather from ponds n streams that
lie in the sun all day, it is, if not alb
solutely hot, at least tepid. It is also
apt to be unclean. Your a~borigine-or
camper out, if he chances to be among
primitive settlements-flls a jar with
the dirty, warm stuff. Around and over
the jar he wraps a blanket, and then
having first soaked the blanket. The
water may evaporate so fast as t0s1as.
cessitate wetting the blanket twice or
more; but in time the impurities have
settled at the bottom of the jar and
the water is as cold as ice. s
HE%THE-mWE
Railway travellers in hot countries
hang porous jugs, with wet cloths
around them, out Of the windows of the
trains in the sun, on the same prin-
ciple. AS the natives of most of the
tropical countries eat little or no meat
there is not the same difficulty in keep
ing supplies hat we ca%rnivorous eat
ers experience. But when they do have
more than they can eat at the moment
they partly cook the rest. The fa-
vorite way is to jerk or sun-cure it, by
thoroughly drying. But most native
populations are so poo they could not
buy a supply Of anything, and as they
could not keep it if they did, they
are to be envied for their humble con-
dition. Is
One would suppose that the absence
of means of refrigeration would teach
cleanliness in such communities. When
surplus meats decay it would seem a
%stantly; but with Indifference to perfect
cooling Of beverages and food comes
insensitiveness to smmells and all that
causes smells. Besides this, native
and by natives one mean, of course,
aborigires in a natural state-really
like staleneSS and a condition of things
known as "high' or "gamey."
Not in game, for they never touch it,
but in butter and other articles of food
which to a European palate should be
otherwise. In India "ghee' is a favorite
delicacy. Now, ghee is a sloppy butter
made from buffalo's milk, and is invari-
ably rancid. All the little native cakes
are fried in this rank concoction; and
judging from the odors that loaf in an
orienta atmosphere, nearly everything
else is permeated with it. But if Euro
peans do not like this, why do they go
where "ghee" is?
If the richer class in an uniced com
munity decides to entertain it's alien
friends with champagne, that article is
drank lukewarm. This may bring out
the fruity flavor, but it is a nasty
drink. One we'll remembers an after
noon call on a Chinaman at Singapore
an influential gentleman whose wife
showed great store Of jewels, drawer
after drawer of them-and the refec-
ton on that occasion consisted of luke
warm champagne, in tea cups, tea at
the same degree Of insipidity, and very
soiled sweet meats, which looked parch-
ed as well as dirty.
To us it is a deprivation amounting to
distress to go without ice for one meals
length. A house left twenty-four hours
in an iceless condition would almost dis
integrate, for here there are no porous
jars, and worse than that, everyone is
ignorant of the first processes of re-