WHAT AND HOW TO DRINK.

Oamaru Mail, Volume X, Issue 4097, 29 December 1887, Page 4

WHAT AND HOW TO DRINK.

What many people, especially children, call thirst, U only a aenw tf dryness to tbe throat. This uncimfortibl-i sensation is camed by the general habit-of breathing'throtJgh the mouth. The air taken into theloDg* dries the month, tongue, and npper part of the throat. To drink for the purpose of relieving the month mad a dry by being open, is frequently to overload the stomach with fluids which are not necessary, and which, consequently, are detrimental to digestion. It ia particularly injariods also, for it washes into tbe stomach all the.foul solids which, in the form of dast, find their way into the month and throat. Ptsrsoos who are - oompelled to cool and moisten their palatea should first rinse the month with a alp or two of water, If afterwards they fe«l that they most drink they 'should imbibe by single sips. By this method they'would be as folly satisfied with a gill of water aa with a pint swallowed hastily.Ice water la the great American vice, j and probably kills ibore persons than ram. That it ia cooling to the entire ayatem cannot be denied, bnt sudden changes of physical temperature from warmth to coolness are always detrimental to health. Actcal thirst is as eaaily satisfied with hot aa with bold. When only iced water is desired, the probability ia ihit the person drinking it haa eaton aomethiog which has irritated the atomach. Coffee is not a good snmmer drink. Its stimulating property ia beneficial to peraooa with a sense of debility; bnt coffee arrests, temporarily, all natural procesaea of waste' whjreaa in hot weather these ahorild be allowed free play. Tea ia a far better'drink. It is stimulating, and therefore very injurious when taken in large quantities; bnt over-stimulation, with ita implied necessity of in some way making good the physic d force which it enables to develop too rapidly, are its only bad effects. T«keo without sogar it ia ; cooling, bat a heaped teaapootful of angmr will generate aa mach heat aa a quarter of a puond of beefsteak. Sugar is the' moat heatioft of all articlea of human consumption. - American Router,