Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1901 — Ices For Little Children. [ARTICLE]

Ices For Little Children.

‘‘London ices for the London boy!" That is the motto of a British company which has been formed to sell penny ices, guaranteed pure and of wholesome manufacture, from clean barrows, attended by clean British salesmen in clean white coats. Every ice will be served in a paper cup with a metal spoon, both intended to be thrown away when once used, so that the propagation of disease by repeated washings of ice-glasses in water that is far from reputable may be avoided. It is no jesting matte?, this selling of unwholesome ices by peripatetic Italian vendors. As each summer comes around the same warning is given by medical officers against the half-penny ices of the streets, the same neglect of the warnings by careless children, the same record of deaths traced directly to the ice-barrow. Thia new and recent supply “of ices for the boy” is a direct outcome of the forceful admonition of the health oflicers concerning this kind of “reform." Perfumes were introduced into Spain by the Arabs, who brought many recipes for making them from the east. No British ship may carry a deckload of timber into a British port between the last day of October and April 16.