Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1893 — A Lesson in Milk Drinking. [ARTICLE]

A Lesson in Milk Drinking.

Few people know that there is a good and bad way of drinking milk, rhe bad way is that which they generally follow, viz—to swallow a targe quaiiity at once. When milk goes into the stomach it is instantly curdled, and if it is curdled into one big mass the juices of the stomach can work only the outside of it. This is the reason why so many people who like milk, and to whom it should be of the utmost benefit, cannot drink it. They say it gives them indigestion and they are right. Let them give it one more chance. But this time they must sip it slowly, not taking more than a .good teaspoonful at one sip and taking at least four minutes to finish the glassful. Each little sin thus becomes curdled up by itself when passed into the stomach and the digestive juices percolate freely around it and it speedily becomes assimilated. One of the best re Jtoratives known after excessive fatigue and one infinitely preferable to any form of alcohol is a glass of aot milk. The heat seems to lighten t t and deprive it of much of the sweetness which is so cloving to some tastes.

Several young ladies were in a field watching the milkmaid milk a 30w. Suddenly a wild bull is seen rushing toward the group with lowered head, uplifted tail, and bellowing furiously. The young ladies were in despair. There was no chance to escape. The milkmaid, on the other hand, kept milking perfectly unconcerned. As soon as the furious animal got within a few feet of his victims he turned and fled in dismay. “Why did he run away?” asked one of the young ladies. “He got scared of this cow I’m milking. She is his mother-in-law,” replied the milkmaid.