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VIII. SUMMER DRINKS. - IX. TOMATO BEER. X. ICE CREAM AND WATER ICES. -XI. CANDY-MAKING. -XII. CANDIED FRUIT.

N I. Pure Water as a Beverage.

O person, now-a-days, can altogether get along withou some beverage other than pure water. Not that the water drunk by man is pure; none of it is, for the minerals contained in the purest spring water, from the chemist's standpoint render it impure, but not, on this account, unhealthful. In fact, the lime, soda, magnesia, and other minerals of spring and well water, if it is in no way impregnated by leachings of the house or barn-yard, or uncontaminated with sewage, is more healthful than chemically pure water. But if impregnated with these lastnamed impurities, it is more deadly than the miasma of Roman marshes in the dog-days.