| Show A SUMMER DRINK FOR LABORERS WA warm weather is rapidly approaching and summer drinks will soon be demanded by the public alcoholic beverages are neither wholesome nor thirst quenching to the farm laborer or other toiler in the sunshine cold water is often insufficient to supply the wants of the body because it increases the perspiration passing through the pores in a hurry and leaving a sense of exhaustion and supplying no stimulant such as the system often craves during active ph physical exertion the sudden action of cold water when taken during extreme heat is to some people very injurious A drink th that atwill will impart in art some nutrition and stimulus while ile lle quenching the thirst will be a great boon to the harvest hand the railroad builder and other out door laborer such a beverage has lately come into use in england and we believe it can be adopted to advantage here it is simply oatmeal an and d water mixed in the proportion of three or four ounces of meal to a gallon of water it is said to satisfy the thirst act as a slight stimulant to the skin have a comforting effect upon n the stomach and be beneficial to the whole system it is victuals and drink combined and is perfectly harmless we bring this to notice here for the special benefit of workers in the heat beat of the summer sun not expecting that those who indulge in fancy drinks will pay any attention to it but in the harat field and an dother lother places where men toll toil in intense heat we think it will fill the bill of the required thirst qu ench ing body strengthening and non injurious beverage try it |
