Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1909 — 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 contalas more than half a barrel of water, and such a body needs for its proper operation at least two quarts dally 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 daily.—W. R. G. Latson, M. D., In the Outing Magazine. -