Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-01

NOURlSHING SUMMER DRINK.
Oatmeal in Water Cooling to tho
Blood and Satisfies Thirst.

| During the hot Summer months
much of he discomfort experienced
by young and old and especially those
obliged to be active. outdoors and in
doors, can be lessened by proper re-
gard for what is taken to satisfy the
thirst.
| The temperature of the body being
up to fever pitch when the thermo-
meter scars calls for something cool
| ing to drink. Most of the supposed
cooling drinkables are selected with
out regard to their component parts or
aftereifects on the body. The one
absorbing desire is simply to satisfy
the thirst. This qualification usually
is but temporary. and really does not
produce any cooling effect whatever.
In many cases frequent partaking of
these Unfortunately selected So
called cooling drngs" proved to be
decisions and rather tend to increase
the craving for more turntables
Even plain ice watre will not salts
fly the thirst and if too copiously par
taken of. especially if the partaker
thereof is obliged to be out in the hot
sun, the ice water drunk becomes "A
serious menace to health, as It arrests
uiStStipH anu often leduS 10 SICKNESS
at the close of the day. Cold tea or
| coffee without milk and sugar is safer
to drink on hot days than plain wa
ter. Buttermilk, if iced and a scant
quarter teaspoonful of salt added to
each glass, is very palatable and ben
| ehcial to the stomach. even though it
| is only clabbered milk. Genuine but
termilk is very nutritious and cooling
to the blood. Few think of trying salt
in butter milk. and therefore say they
do not relish It, Salt is to buttermilk
as sugar to the cup of tea or coffee
Lemon juice put into drinking wa
| ter soon produces too much acid in the
stomach if taken frequently, and fails
to quench the thirst In hot countries
ginger ale, well iced, with the addition
of lemon juice, is a fair satisfer of
thirst-a pleasant, safe drink. The
Canadian and English ginger beer.
| absolutely non-alcoholic, is still bet
| ter.
| All alcoholic drinks not only add to
the heat of the blood, but do not
quench or satisfy the thirst. indu1-
gence in liquors on a hot day becomes
dangerous and makes the partaser
thereof more susceptible to sunstroke
I There are numerous connections for
the good old summer time" but the
one beverage which can be taken in
safety. rst-satisfying. and at the
same time nourishing during the ia
4 tiguing heat of summer, as often as is
i required to satisfy the thirst. and
which does well and truly satisfy the
l thirst is made by one cup of oatmeal
} which has been only partly boiled. put
/ in a pail of water. together with the
water it was stepped in. A teaspoon.
) full of this prepared oatmeal to a glass
of water, iced or otherwise will no.
only satisfy the thirst on the partak
ing thereof, with quarter the guam
tity of the liquid. but at the sam,
time the body Is fed by partaking o.
llthis health giving. thirst quenching
and nutritious drink. The same guam
without being partially cooked. bu
with many it has too much of a lax,
alive effect if INDUCED in with grea
regularity.
This oatmeal water is particular,
beneficial to all who are obliged t
work out in the hot sun, and no drink
, will really be more palatable in hoi
: weather without being iced. For in
valds and in the sick room there is
3 nothing better and more cooling to the
!. blood for drink than this oatmea
Il water, which can be well iced without