The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-27
MILKAMEANSOFS SUICIDE
DEADLY FORMS IN WHICH THE M
NocENT FLUID FIGURES.

The Lethai Elects OF MIX Are MLch Un-
derrnted-Usual Result From Earine
Cherries and Drinking Miik-Ice-Coid
Itisa . Very Harmful Beverage.
It is remarkable that so mild and in
trinsically harmless a beverage as milk
should be SO frequently chosen as a
means Of exit into the other world
Yet at this season the lethal effects OF
milk seem to be much underrated.
For example. we read in the dispatches
from San Andreas that "a prominent
young man Of Calaveras County died
here to-day as a result Of eating cher
ries and drinking milk" This Is a
slight variant from the usual combin-
alton. Probably the most deadly is
pickles and milk. Strawberries and
milk are only mildly toxic; with young
and hardy stomachs they are often
partially digested; with older ones
they frequently cause nothing more
than eructative dyspepsia, or at worst
hives, nettle-rash, urticaria. or summer
complaint. therefore those who are
fond Of this combination rarely abstain
in the face of these comparatively
trifing ailments.
Next to pickles and milk. probably
the most deadly form in which the in
nocent fluid can be made to figure is
the cheap ice cream combination. De
spite the toughness Of Juvenile viscera.
milk in the ice cream form. II judi
ciously administered, has been known
to lay out in intestinal kinks many
scores Of children on Sunday-school
picnics. With their eldeis, the combi-
nation is not infreouently fatal or
course it requires much care to make
milk so deadly. In fact. with careless
mixing this kind Of Ice cream may be
taken with comparative impunity, or
only a slight illness. When 1t is pre-
pared with attention TO the proper sep
tic and toxic conditions. however. milk
in this form may be looked upon as
practically certain death; 1t would be
invaluable as an apparently innocent
means Of hurrying of rich uncles. tar
dy spinster aunts and other rich per-
sons who linger superhuous on life's
stage. In its most potent form. when
the innocent milk has become merely
a culture bed for billions Of ice cream
ptomaines. the doctors call the mixture
'tyro-toxicon" This name is imposing
and scientific sounding. and doubtless
gives a certain chastened satisfaction
TO the mourners - much more than
would plain milk.
To return TO our original remark-it
is extraordinary what pains people
take to render deadly this harmless
beverage. Even If the ccw be sound.
they will expose the milk to all man.
ner OF MISUNDERSTANDING typhoid
germs-before they put it inside OF
them. Even If it be perfectly pure
they take 1t at temperatures and un-
der conditions that are unwise, IL not
dangerous. To take a glass Of milk BY
itself is a sensible proceeding: 10 take
Il on top Of a hearty meal composed OF
proteids. carbohydrates and hydro |
rarbons is most unwise; TO take It with
acids is to WOO dyspepsia. Yet the lat
ter method is the one most preferred. I
For cream Is used as a mechanical lu-
Jrieant with al manner OF acid fruits.
As to temperature-in tile summer |
season people prefer 1t ice cold. and 4
some lunatics even put ice into 1t. If
they take it at the temperature Of the 4
iir. without accompanying solid food.
{ is probably speedily absorbed with
Dut going through the complex pro-
,esses Of gastric and hepatlc digestion.
Il, on the other hand. it be taken ice
,old. il at once coagulates and the
caseln in it sometimes re-
Iuires hours for digestion; this latter
S invariably the case when It IS accom-
'anied with solid food
Many a man and woman has died
through drinking freely OF iced milk
n hot summers day. Adelaide Mel
on. the beautiful actress. went into a
Paris restaurant on the way to the
sois de Boulogne one summer day
ne OF those broiling, blisterIng. steam
ng days Of which in Paris they have
o many. and Of which we hear so lit.
le. She ordered a glass OF iced mills:
be did not sip it-against the advice
{ her companion. she drank It rapid
:. and followed it with another. In IA
ew moments she was dead.
Eheul She was fine actress and a
cry beautiful woman. They show
on the room in which she died. They
ven point out to you the lounge on I
Thich she yielded up her last breath
Yes. monsieur. Yes, nadine. VOLTA,
that Is the place where the beautiful
ctress Anglais have die. She was
cry beautiful. very gentle. Oh. YES ]
was a grand pity. Oh. yes. She
rink glass Of the milk-cold. very s
1ld. Thank you. monsieur. Thank {
on. a thousand times. Good dav
iadame; good day. monsieur."-Argo- {
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