Show TilE NEW YORK Times in an article on What to Drink in Summer Sum-mer says great deal of Lann to hcath ant many deaths result from S injudicious use of cold quids U quench thirst during summer Per S eoiisjexposed < to tbe heat especially S those hard at wore can not or will not refrain from drinking for they feel the need of supplying tho waste from copious perspiration The t Times suggests that water seems under tho circumstances to be inadequate inad-equate to the wants of the system S f It passes through the circulation tot 4 to-t tho skin as through a sieve and flows S over the surface in streams A big drink of cold or even of cool wat ron S r-on an empty stomach is very dangerous danger-ous it is liable to produce BUrl den death The danger may be avoided it a said by putS put-S y v atinp farinaceous substances parS par-S S CtitTculariy oat meal with theater the-ater to be drank by laborers tbe S 5 proper proportion being three or four S S S ounces > of meal to a gallon of water or Why oatmeal should be better than rye millet buckwheat or cornmeal S can not easily be determined but those who have used oatmeal I especially firemen coal heavers andS and-S the like sy that it gives them greater endurance and increases their jjrength l This may be a mere notion S f e fbctEr the peculiar aroma of the oats may be so associated with an agreeable I agree-able stimulation of the alimentary S mucous surface as to promote complete f com-plete digestion The meal appears to fill the blood vessels without increasing S in-creasing the cutaneous exhalations S Workmen who have tried acid I S saccharine or alcoholic drink have invariably expressed unsatisfactory results Water with oatmeal seems to be by all odds the most wholesome z and desirable summer drink for manual laborers |