| Show g what to brink brinn in hot weather X A quellion que elion aLlon that everybody puts ta everybody elso else in these awful dog days is ii 11 what do you drink in this er the variety of replies returned to this would make a list that would startle a barkeeper bar keeper most afoot of these are art ar alco alcoholic bolle one man will tell you to stick to native whisky because the foreign liquors not being accustomed to this climate are apt to run riot in the stomach of those who swallow them the next interlocutor says that this tehi s is all nit stuff once fines the foreign 1 li I quoos are manufactured here there ore are freb men who aver that santa cruz fum yum rum being a tropical tipple to la eminently fitted for these latitudes at the present time others di dismiss it ou du that account aud nud inquire whether the arctic pole does not furnish some kind hind ot allilee akings that would cool mens stomachs and keup keep the blood away from the head the advocates of juleps and e si nashes mashes and all other fancy drinks are numerous as are those of brandy braudy and i water plain but hy by far the most moat nu of advisers with regard to beverages are those who caution you against drinking croton water without something in it as aa it if the possibility of finding croton water without Wit hopi hopt something in it at this thib season were iid ad many persons think that hot lot tea allays better bettl er than cold drinks and there are irish and scotch gentlemen of the old school who on the same principle drink hot whisky punch all round irrespective of the thermometer cold tea without milk and with a slice of lemon in it is stated by persons who have tried it to be the bet of drinks for allaying thirst thirel but the objection to tea is that medical men declare it to tb be more wi shattering n tt ering to the nerves than alcoholic drinks taken very moderately I 1 lil kil all ali the malt liquors have their advocates and a favorite beverage lately come came much into vogue here is a compound of ale aud bud ginger beer it is very palatable but as the sr french say of good wine it recalls the drin drinker ker perhaps of all summer 1 drinks the two iwo kinds of german beer are lire most in demand many persons as a well as Germans Germana drink weiss beer early of a morning nt at athla season consider in ing 9 it to be a tonic and promoter of appetite As aa for lager beer everybody drinks it copiously although opinion is divided with regard to its effect upon the system the main objection to lager beer seems beems to be the imm ense quantity of it one can imbibe without being injuriously affected by it for the time one of the besl best drinks the writer remembers for allaying thirst is a sort of lemonade brewed with a certain proportion of cream of tartar in it it is not only grateful to the palate but cooling to the blood bat the manufacture of pop il as it used to be called seems be the lost art it should be man manufactured uto at home since it is very amenable to imitation with spurious ingredients lime juice added in small quantities to water with a little sugar in it is also an agreeable and healt healthful drink but bult it 11 appears to be agreed on by medical men that the less any one drinks in hot weather the bener beuer especially ally the stronger kinds of stimulating drinks should be avoided and so should copious draughts of iee ice coid eold water to abstain from such food as tends to promote thirst is one of the best rules to be observed in hot weather ex |
