I hope you aren't going to drink that water without having it boiled. Don't you know it is teeming with microbes? Harold, do you know I don't think we ought to drink tea this weather. I heard Mrs. W. say that she read in a paper where some doctor had said that tea tanned the lining of the stomach and was very injurious. Yes, my friend, I have found coffee to be one of the greatest enemies of mankind. Hold on man! Don't you know this season's crop of lemons is diseased and that lemonade this summer is consequently very unhealthful? Great guns, man! Don't you know that you ought not to be drinking beer this hot weather? It is fatal. I make it a rule never to drink anything colder than 65 degrees fahrenheit. But the poor man in a moment of lapsus mentis drank a glass of warm mild that had not been sterilized and died of typhoid fever

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Title	I hope you aren't going to drink that water without having it boiled. Don't you know it is teeming with microbes? Harold, do you know I don't think we ought to drink tea this weather. I heard Mrs. W. say that she read in a paper where some doctor had said that tea tanned the lining of the stomach and was very injurious. Yes, my friend, I have found coffee to be one of the greatest enemies of mankind. Hold on man! Don't you know this season's crop of lemons is diseased and that lemonade this summer is consequently very unhealthful? Great guns, man! Don't you know that you ought not to be drinking beer this hot weather? It is fatal. I make it a rule never to drink anything colder than 65 degrees fahrenheit. But the poor man in a moment of lapsus mentis drank a glass of warm mild that had not been sterilized and died of typhoid fever
Creator	Darling, Jay N. (Jay Norwood), 1876-1962
Date Original	1903-07-17
Contained Text	Ice water; lemonade 5 [cents]
Subject - Topics	Drinking Hypochondria Rumors
Subject - Depictions	Husbands Wives Drinkers Perspiration Drinks Glassware Dishes Hearses Graveyards
Chronological Subject	1900-1910
Type (DCMIType)	Still image
Type (AAT)	Microfilm Editorial cartoons
Digital Collection	Des Moines Register Cartoonists Editorial Cartoons of J.N. "Ding" Darling
Contributing Institution	State Historical Society of Iowa University of Iowa. Libraries. Special Collections Dept. J.N. "Ding" Darling Foundation
Archival Collection	Jay N. Darling papers
Collection Identifier	MSC0170
Collection Guide	http://lib.uiowa.edu/collguides/?MSC0170
Original Publication Source	Sioux City Journal
Digital Image Source	Iowa City Historical Library Newspaper Collection Microfilm: Sioux City Journal (Sioux City, Iowa: 1887). Sioux City, Iowa: Perkins Bros. Co. [Sys. No. 003496764].
Rights Management	Copyright is owned by the "Ding" Darling Wildlife Society; it is administered on behalf of the Society by The University of Iowa. While use within the classroom is encouraged without specific authorization, publishing this cartoon in any format requires written permission. See policy and permissions procedure at: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/services/dingdarling_fees.html
Contact Information	Contact the Special Collections Department at The University of Iowa Libraries: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/contact
Identifier	030717.tif
Language	English
Digital Format	tiff

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