"They" say that drinks at body temperature are more easily absorbed than if they are cold—another example of the idea that what is good for one must be nasty. In a state of nature, of course, one would for the most part drink warm water in hot weather because cold water would be difficult to find. But even nature's ownest might be expected to prefer a cold mountain spring to a pool baking in the sun as the source of his summer beverage.
Some few drink to live, more live to drink, but the greatest number just have a feeling that water tastes better with something in it, especially in the summer. Appreciated are the malted barley and hops which turn water into a fine and nourishing summer beverage called beer.
Another summer food-beverage is milk—which has this in common with beer, that it must be drunk cold in hot weather. But it should be drunk slowly too, and who ever heard of sipping beer? These differences are interesting. Some people imagine they are allergic to milk—in this case try adding citrate or bicarbonate of soda to the glass. One doesn't always want to be nourished, however, and those who are quite capable of wielding a knife and fork in a good cause, will view liquid refreshment as simply an extra summer pleasure. Among these are lots and lots of children. How exquisite in their eyes are the array of nobly-coloured juices owing origin to fruits the very names of which are (almost) as good as shady trees.
There is that coca-cola too, which, if it stands by its name, has in it marvellous Peruvian powers of increasing human endurance—to be recommended therefore to the notice of those who strive for mastery in swimming bath, on tennis court and other battlefields.
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