The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-08-15
ThiIadnlphia North Americana

~ lllidtl'illiild A>oIltt t!lt'IItdI.b
We'll. shcik,' said tho touring mag
nate. as the caravan halted for the
night. If YOU wont take champagne,
here's Il siphon of scltzer."
Thanks" rcjoincd the shcik. But
| had Il drink of water three days
ago.
That. iii these days of tube gowns
and dread OF avoirdlp"is. is pretty
nearly the attitude toward water of
half the population. The other half
are Micro tanks. especially in SUMMED
weather, hat makes Sahara eel like
the White mountains.
1t wouldn't be so bad if the general
run of population alone were to go
TO unc or the other of the extremes.
Rut the ranks of medical men seem
to be showing divisions between those
until the healthy ard comfortable
mean is beginning to he lost sight OF.
Apart from the fact hat water is
tectotalism'S only ally, it is about the
most important factor in the mainten-
anre of IN" spirits ease and the
hody's life that is to lie found. Like
the fclloW who preferred Jail because
sheik of the desert lodges water as
n matter of habit; and perhaps be-
cause ne comes of uncounted genera
tlons that nave been, as it We're, ac-
'limated to purgltory, he manages
often to live to an advanced age, AL
though as dried ny as a mummy.
But northern races are different. and
Americans are VIGOROUSLY the water
drinkers of the world.
Both here II abroad. within the
space of Il couple of months. distin-
etished experts have taken the part
OF the sheik-less cmphatically, it is
true but ~risorous!E enough to make
the narrow skirtnd woman of fashion
believe she deserves a golden crown
l'arched like an oven and to scare Il
hale and hearty male into half Il
dozen diseases water drinkers never
know.
Or. Charles G. Hill of Baltimore
told the American NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
slcal society that water intemperance
has become a menac to the health
OF II nation through the writings of
pseudo health experts and beauty
doctors. In France DIR. Paul Fabre,
before the Academy of Science, gave
the habit of excessive water drinking
Ia paralyZing scientific name-hypo-
rEpSla. meaning water drunkenness.
re came out strong for oligolypsia,
which is the nam" for drinking as
i!ttIe water as possible, a Ia the Be-
aouins. The human body. averrcd
l}r. lahre. required extremely small
quantities of water except in cases of
low diet or great muscular eyertion.
W" get enough water In the liquids
present in the food we eat.
The conflicting claims regarding
water, so long esteemed as Adams
best friend and the standby of his
DESCENDANTS, We're put before DR.. S.
SoiIs-Cohen, professor Of clinical med
icine of Jeerson medical college, the
distinguished American authority on
therapeutics. and 10th OF them came
IN Tor his unqualified condemnation.
I'm" formal human being, to main
tam health. must drink neither too
llttl" water nor too much. There are
lads of all sorts which come out all
the time. We cannot consider man
in his relation to the animal king
DOM. in his bodily constituents. or in
his ordinary habits Of life, without
realizing that water. and considerable
quantities OF it. is absolutely essential
to his existence.
IF We were constructed on the
principle that applies to the birds, we
could do with much less water. be-
cause h wastes Of the bird are in
solid form. But we. as animals. are
built for existence on the basis Of
continual washings. that serve to de-
lete our system of organic poisons.
which the water wo drink ~dissolves