Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1878 — An Injurious Beverage. [ARTICLE]

An Injurious Beverage.

Jesting aside, ice-water is an injurious beverage, nud if used at all freely in such weather as this, is dangerous. Water of the ordinary, temperature quenches thirst better, and is bettky in every respeet. No pcoplein-tne WtirtdTßaltTßgthcmsehrcs civilized abuse their stomachs with ice-wa-ter to the extent that Americans do. In fact, oilier civilized people scarcely use it at all. — India najadts Journal.