Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-14
OUTSIDE POINT OF VIEW


About this time of the year the read
ef on the daily paper can expect much
sage advise on what we eat. drink and
Wear. Much OF it comes from fine news
paper man who knows ii an and sop,a
from the expert in certain kinds of 4th-
letlc sports. Also the director of nbv-
Steal culture in a. Is and c college puts
in ms oar and settles the whole busi
ness So that this scribe is i'm good
company when he absolutely knocks
out some of these erroneous theories Inv
what follows. Take for instance the
question of whether drinking ice water
is injurious or NOT The peculiar part
oil the anti-ice- water argument is that
tiie iildJoiltN OF these writer's who con-
oeilh the practice do not hesitate 10
ollilk ICED lemonade. ONLY the other
utN the writer heard n learned argu-
hient at the dinner table from a lady.
VINO followed up the argument bv
drinking two glasses of iced tea. And
those hot days many a man is afraid of
lce-water. and to get rid of hish fear
poufs down four to ten glasses of lee
cold beer. Some of our good people who
md ice-water so injurious will pump
out barrel OF water from the Well.
so they can get some from the "north-
east corner of the well'' that is cold.
The writer knows OF a learned editor.
an anti water crank, who allows his
ehilaren to eat ice cream by the pint.
in fact brings it home for the family
alhher. So here we have it. water
Is bad with a big b. iced-tea. lemonade.
beer and ice-cream is ali right: water
from the Well as cold as ice," is all
right. The fact is. the good Lord in
tends that his people shall have cold
drinks in summer and iced water used
IN moderate quantities and drank slow
~ brings peace. prosperity and happi-
ness. That settles the whole busi-
ness.
And now about the much abused wa
termelon. Put this in your pine and
smoke it, A cold, ripe Watermelon
never injured q Well person. eaten in
moderate quantity It's different if. on
a not August day. a person, exhausted
by overwork or play. sits down and de-
YOURS half of an unripe or over-ripe
wilted Watermelon. It's different if some
schoolboy races d mile in the hot sun to
Watermelon patch and fills up on Il
warm. Wilted melon. Its different il
some school girl. after eating half a
pound of Chocolate creams" :; dozen
big olives and has had two ice cream
her educated father. the anti-ice- water
crank, Immediately rushes into print
and proves conclusively watermelons
ir,i, ,,.iN,
poor cucumber, the much abused. long
suffering, maligned. silent cucumber
Now, here's bit of family experience.
The writer has trained his wife so
that at night she places half dozen
average sized cucumbers on the ice in
the refrigerator. In the morning they
are carefully peeled. sliced. covered
with broken ice and thus served for
breakfast. Each member of the fam
lily eats from one to two cucumbers for
breakfast, with sugar, salt, pepper or
vinegar, according to taste and pre-
vious condition of servitude. And here
let 1t be recorded no one of the Birdseye
family was ever sick from eating Gu
cumbers. But good Lord deliver us
from what is put on the tables In Iowa
homes and served as cucumbers. Even
at first-class hotels n high-priced cook
takes lot OF wilted cucumbers that
have been out in front of some grocery
store for two days. slices them into
dish of vinegar. throws in handful of
salt. adds a quantity of pepper and thus
for 81 a day the guests have cucum-
bers!! Such a combination requires the
of an ostrich. A few good
slice cucumbers Unto salt
ed water to allow them to wilt" and
then serve slippery sailed. wilted,
lot of stuff that, if eaten in any
quantity, is sure to produce sickness,
and thus add one more score against
the healthiest of summer vegetables.
1t may be this philosopher has had
a few readers so far, so here's a chance
to once and for all settle little ques-
ton of fresh air. OF all the erroneous
ideas, the worst is that sleeping or sit
ting in a draught is injurious. For
years. to give more family experience,
the whole Birdseye tribe and genera
ton have slept in draughts. The beds
are placed so that the cool breeZes OF
the night blow over the beds the night
long The Birdseyes sit on the porch
with the refreshing. cool night south
wind enveloping the whole body. And
right here make a memorandum. We
never take cold" But this draught