Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1908 — Water Drinking. [ARTICLE]

Water Drinking.

Free water drinking is an essential to vitality and to the development of staying power. All the operations of the body, digestion, assimilation, absorption, elimination of poisonous waste and so on, are carried on by means of water; and an insufficient amount of water in the system means embarrassment of every function. The body of a man of average weight contains more than half a barrel of water, and such a body needs for its proper operation at least two quarts daily of pure water. In this connection, it may not be Irrelevant to mention that the Japanese soldiers, whose surprising powers are now engaging the admiration of the world, consume each between two and four gallons of water dally.—W. R. C. Latson, M. D., in the Outing Magazine.