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Evening Star, Issue 13091, 26 October 1908, Page 1

When ice cream is made with pure milk and cream it is stated to be a highlvnounshmg and easily-digestible food, though its percentage of fat is comparatively small. An ordinary water ice, on the conhas no nutritional value whatever 1 fliKi at tno most, can only bo rcgari?d as a depressant, and not, as usually accepted as a stimulant. When taken before a meal it decreases the amount of gastric eecretwn, and therefore acta as a slight mhibitant; when consumed after a meant prolongs the period of digestion appreciably. Clinically, therefore, the water ice is to be whole-heartedly condemned, while the cream ice may be useful in many ways. When we come to the chapter on the dangers attendant on the consumption of ices, the tabulation is still more in favor of the cream ice. Impurities are to be classed as organic and inorganic, and although the former are much more dangerous, they are also rarer, and may almost be excluded when proper care is taken in the manufacture. Organic impurities are oue not only to bad materials used in the manufacture, but to bad preservation, and ■ to impurities in the air of tho ice-room. Inorganic contaminants are due to the icechests and the apparatus. The most important inOigenic impurity was found to bo lead, which is present in 40 per cent, of cream ices and 69 per cent, of water ices; ammonia, sulphuric add, and magnesium were detected in traces in all mZ ices —The ‘Hospital.' CharilaMe Man (to former Mind beggor): “What! have you recovered vour achf ,w Beggar: “ Well, you see,.it*« this way. I’ve lost my dog. and as I cannot- longer bo i Mind I nave become a doohmctc {*