Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1892 — Cold Water as a Beverage. [ARTICLE]

Cold Water as a Beverage.

“On the advice of an eminent physician, I have tested pure cold water as a ‘bracer’ and found it is the greatest thing in the world,” said an old rounder at the Lindell. “I heartily commend it to every man who stays out with the boys late o’ nights and dallies with the rosy until his head whirls around, his legs get weak, and his stomach revolts. When you wake up the next morning with a throbbing head and excited nerves I advise you to touch the button and have the boy bring you a lemonade glass full of cold water instead of a cocktail. Sip the water slowly—an hour is not too lopg to devote to it—and you will be astonished at the wonderful bracing effect it has upon you. The doctor explained to me that the cold water, sipped slowly, tends to contract the arteries and force a rush of blood to the head. A vigorous circulation is thereby set up, and in a little while the last remnant of the night’s ‘jag’ is driven out of the system. lam also told that the brain and nerve stimulating effect of pure, cold water has for centuries been demonstrated in India. That semi-heathen country, you know, is the mother of chess. The natives of East India are to-day the greatest chessplayers in the world. When they start into a game they squat flat on the earth around board and never rise until the game is finished. Sometimes they play for forty-eight hours on a,stretch" without sleep or«food, and the only stimulant they use is pure, cold water, which they continually sip."—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.