Evening star., 1901-07-13

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| comfortable. Not only must she personally
| attend to having an abundant supply of alb
| solutely pure drinking water ION tap" but
also a variety of other wholesome and sea-
sonable beverages. Iced tea Is easily pre-
pared. and is much more attractive to the
palate a hot night than cup of the
same liquid scaldng hot that drenches one
with perspiration.
Coffee, on the other hand is never more
appetiZng than at the summer breakfast
table; when hot and fragrant. it affords
the stimulus required to brace one for the
duties of the day. Cocoa is lighter than
chocolate and should be given the prefer
ence. Iced buttermk is wholesome and
| delicious. as is also the juice of figs. dates,
cordng 10 oriental methods OF other
drinks there is end. Cups. shrubs. cor
| dials. sherbets. lemonades, orangeadeS and
the various nectars made from each fresh
| fruit in its season are altogether good, and
| therefore to be commended.
That many serious diseases are directly
| traceable to impure drinking water. and
| that a variety of minor ailments result
| from merely a change In water, goes with
| out saying. Many case of typhoid fever
that that develops In the fall has its origin in
turesque well that adds poetic charm to the
| old farm house. but has, alas, too close an
| afhnlty for the barn yard or the kit chen
| drain for the well-being of the consumer
| III in casting about for summer quarters
more attention was paid to inquiring into
! the water supply and the sanitary environ
ment, and less to haggling over "the lowest
| possible terms, the health dividends as
! declared in the fall. might be much more
satisfactory.
| All physicians agree that water in sum-
| mer time cannot be taken in too large
quantities. to make up for the waste but
| III: proviso Is. it must be pure. The usual
! test for pure drinking water is that it be
free from color. smell or taste be soft
! bright and aer4ted and free from all de-
| pcsit-' 1t is safe to assume that water
/ can seldom be found that exactly fuIflls
/ these conditions. Water infected with the
! germs of typhoid fever may be as clear
/ as crystal. odorless and tasteless while the
| malodorous water of a spring impregnated
with sulphur is yeritable fountain of
| health.
| The worst impurities are those which
only show themselves upon chemical an
! alysis. While an ideal water supply con-
! taIns neither animal nor vegetable life it's
/ power of dissOving all substances in the
| earth through which it flows renders it al
I most an impOSSibility to obtain water with
| out trace OF one or the other. No one
/ indeed need be seriously shocked at the
discovery of perfectly harmless insects or
/ water worms such as are often found in
/ the purest spring water or the turbidness
/ oCcasioned by a severe storm. But here
| arises the necessity for fiItering or boiling
water that is used for drinking as for
! cooking purposes. The ice supply is too
! frequently q menace to health holding as
it does the impurities from pond and river
! Instead of adding ice directly TO the drink
I ing water it will be found much safer to
/ put the water in clean bottles and lay on
the ice.
( Water that is too hard should be boiled
! before using. A filter is a necessity with
/ the average water supply. Not the cum
! btrsome old filter formerly in use, but a
small inexpensive one that can be fire.
| quently cleaned out and renewed.
| homemade filter that fills all the re-
| necessary a
muslin bag of coarsely crushed charcoal
tied to the faucet.
1t is astonishing how few women there
are who can brew the perfect cup of tea
In the first place, always good tea.
Women with English predictions decide
| in favor of Ceylon. In general tea does
not range in price much above 81 a pound
| II can be bought for 81 or s. a pound. but
| there is little call for it, and no necessity.
| a good English breakfast tea retais for SO
| cents per pound, and from that downward
to ~ cents. In buying tea select your
dealer with regard to his own honesty and
his ability to cope with tricky import ers
! Having your tea. see that your teapot is
! imma culately clean and warm. To insure
| this last point fill with hot water just be-
fore making the tea. The next step is cru
cial There is an old nursery rhyme to the
| effect:
| Unless the tea kettle boiling be.
| Filling the teapot spois the tea.
If the water has not boiled it fails to
| extract the flavor of the tea. But here
| again is a point to be noted. The water
must not have been boiling some time
That takes all the life out of it. Yet no
| mistake is more common. The kittle
| billed long ago, num-" is the shbboeth
| the housekeeper hears over and over again
from the .sIayey'' VINO fails to recognize
the necessity for freshly boiled water 1t
must have just reached the bubhling foam
ing. boiling. point-just that no more Put
the leaves in the pot-one teaspoonful of tea
| is usually quite sufficient for four generous
cIUr NJ tha bniI
Push to the back side of the range,
| where it may infuse. but never boil. There
| is no question about that. There is diff
! ference Of opinion as to whether coffee
should be allowed to boil or not. but there
IS meme about tea. Cover il with a cosey
and allow ii to stand three minutes when
no cream is used, but from four to six
| minutes for cream. As soon as the tea is
steeped-ro leaves will be found floating on
| the surface when it has stepped the proper
length of time-SerVe at once. If the tea
| is TO stand some little time. pour off the
leaves into another heated teapot and then
| there is no danger of extracting the in
| furious tannin.
Ii has long been claimed that adding a
few drops of lemon juice to a glass of water
| prevents stomach trouble and renders even
! malignant germs innocuous. Still better
| declares Mrs. Ellen II. Richards of the
| Boston Institute of Technology, is a crys-
tai Of permanganate of potash. This, she
| says, should be carried in small vials to
| be added in minute quantities to the glass
| of drinking water in hotels on railroads.
| at the wayside spring, wells, etc The
| water, after the germicide has done it's
| work. will be a pinkish color and the con-
sumner will be immune from typhoid
A simple but effective way of cooling
| water, milk wine is to take a bottle
| filed with the liquid, wrap IL in a piece
of wet cloth and hang in a draught BY
| keeping the cloth cool the process of evap-
| Grafton soon reduces the liquid to a tenn
perature much below that of the sur
| rounding air.
smallpox, which has been unusually prev
alent in the states and Canada this sum-
! mer. need hold no terrors for the intliyid-
ual devoted to buttermilk. Unlimited indul-
Sence in that wholesome beverage Is said
| 70 be sure cure for the dread disease.
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