The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-18

\ W Al'UH -OF' IOEF-A z uiSiiA6uiSAicA physician has said, without reserva-- ton: "If human kind had every rem edy taken away, except pure water, with intelligent use a great deal could be done, as water comes nearer than any one thing to universal rem. .edy."
 Fortunes have been made and are being made, by fakirs, all the time in the sale of drinking waters, alleged to
 be from this spring or that, and all
 backed up by analyses that show how much of this or that valuable medi- cinal quality they possess In many instances this water is from a good spring. In many more 1t comes out of a hydrant and is bottled in bottles that have been used over and over again, and perhaps not even so much as rewashed
 If some one,, or some thousand of persons. in the water business, could get the truth to be known as to the value of water from natural ice, and could get an honest and effective com mercial way of handling it, they could not only get fortunes but would be do- ink. humanity a world of good. 5 Ignorance has created prejudice against water Of fee and ice-water Another distinguished and accomplish ed scientist has said:-
 Tn truth. Nature has safeguardeN the production of natural ice in a re-
 markable degree. As the tempera- lure falls in the quiet winter nights, and the sheet of crystal creeps down ward, selective forces draw together and fuse into the mass one substances water, and push aside the impurities the organic matter, the salts, bacteria, into the. black depths below. s What will not time subdue?'' the old song asks. It does subdue bac- k> l. %<~- <,STtx stance in which there is little to feed on the bacteria which are used to the rich foods of the human body grad ually perish. Every week that the ice cake floats in the pond, or rests in the sawdust of the ice house, it is growing Durer.
 ''The sanitary safety of natural ice is due mainly to these two factors: freezing and storage, which affects freely and automatically a purifica- tion equivalent to that produced by water qualification plants. only after considerable exDenditure of money and under careful and constant super vision.''
 This is very eloquent. yet simple and fOrcible way of telling how Ma ttlre purifies water by frost; how she squeezes out the impurities of water by specialization.
 Distilled, Or boiled water, is not so good as a solvent, nor for bever- age, as water that has. been purified by freezing, for many reasons. First, because the boiling of water kills it. so to speak-taking away certain ele- ments that are needful to the human economy. Water that has been puri-' fled or sterilized, by the freezing pro- cess loses only the impurities that ton of water softens it and yet does not take away all it's mineral matter but lowers that characteristic to the degree desirable. Scientific and prac- tical physicians are unanimous in the assertion that hard water is danger sists in hardening the arteries and thus bringing on old age, or senilSty.
 The presence of salts in solution in water from whiche ice is harvested or any other fresh water. as to that impedes the process of freezing, which is very beautiful and interesting, but when the congealation at last takes place at temperature below g Ge- grees, the greater portion of the for eign matter is excluded from the ice, which consequently is nearer the com position Of pure water.
 Another interesting fact concerning water of ice for drinking purposes, and it's use as a solvent by chemists and pharmacists, is that it can be supplied at a cost of from three to many times less than the alleged spring waters delivered in bottles. The difficulty of delivering water in an uncontaminated condition is very much greater than that of ice. If stored, natural ice, free from any ad- i, herring particles, is melted and the re- sulting water placed in a sterilized i container, the product will be on a par | to the water as it comes from the | spring, and thereby eliminates the | chances of infection which spring wa ter is always subject to by its meth ]! od of delivery.
 It is an important thing for, every [ one to learn that seventy nine and fve-tenth per cent. of the blood is water and that seventy per cent. of the entire human body is water. Knowing this one begins to realize the importance of pure water in this structure; that is the great ar part of life itself. It gives form to the human frame and it maintains the integrity of the tissues. More over, it acts as a solvent for the min eral matters of the body and altogether 1t is the indispensable fluid of our ex- stence
 All this being true, is it not the