Show Something About Ices and Iced i I Drinks Ices and iced drinks are now so com in hot dinks from the iced mon weaterfom with which the dinerout champagne accompanies and the iced pudding with unwisely concludes the dinner he which which the lo with to the delicious haporth wih delcious cool his tongue delights to col tongue boy street delght stret habitually forget the insult which that we habiualy draught of freezing sudden lump 1 offers to the muchenduring matter ° mattr ofer his report btomach Dr Muter adds to rprt often which though ices adder ofcn on cheap years now was a truism thirty year forgotten of the hasty consumption The mere fact basr1conlln ago and an hot day of ice on a sumption empty stomach would in itself frequently cmpt tesultS Unpleasant cause unpleasant lSUlS results is a euphemism for which our grandmothers and great aunts used plainly t call sudden deaths We do not believe that in the case with which Dr Muter was concerned the sufferers wereinjnredmerely by the internal chill for it i almost incredible that so many persons should have been thus simultaneously simultane-ously affected by ices from a particular barrow I is also clear that in threatening threaten-ing us with death as the penalty for penat drinking cold water ice was a rare luxury when we were hot our grandmothers grand-mothers grossly exaggerated the truth for since their time the use of chilled drinks and foods has become almost universaleven in England but absolutely so in the United States Nevertheless there was truth in what they said People Peo-ple in America pay very heavily in digestion di-gestion and vitality for the nasty joy which they are perpetually snatching from draughts of water at the freezing point i nor do we who follow them at avery a-very respectful distance by any means escape the penalties of imprudence And the odd thing is that cold drinks are after all a very indifferent remedy for heat The poor Fijian in the fever of measles rushes to the shore and lies down in the cool clear waves His bliss for five minutes must be exquisite but it is fatal So the man addicted to iced drinks feels for a minute and only for a minute that what an Irishman calls the sensitive sensi-tive thirst is hunted out of every square inch of his body But the evil spirit returns re-turns bringing with it several others more clamorous than itself For a really cooling drink i one will but wait for five minutes for the effect hot tea is better than most things and as AngloIn dians know the wrist held under a tap of running water cools more than any sort of drink London Standard I |