METAL EGGS FOR DRINKS.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 404, 4 February 1904, Page 6

METAL EGGS FOR DRINKS.

Ovoid CniiMi!-"- *• ■' Conner Containing Ice for <;«>r>l'-:i;r Too-Warm UevernjfcS. * One of the crfdr>;« of recent invention.-- is a •. frigeiaiing eggi as it might be railed. Si i» an ovoid captnle o' nicl-el-plated copper, about the si/.t at;t; -.:;?;• -->! a hens egg, i»ollow a.id nri: .«- Si:: tl jiti: water. For use it is frozen • that it- - contents become ice. sa\.> the • • I'hila'flelph.Ja Post. ; : _ If you have a glass of milk that is not cold enough, you "do-not like to put ice into it, because- dilution with"? water spoils tin- beverage: But, if ' you have one of rhy.se "eggs handy, you may drop it :.!io the glass,-and iD a few moments the fiquid is reduced to the desired temperature. In the same way you may coo! your cup of coffee, if it is too hot,-.and the idea is equally applicable -to any other drink. Many people nosvatiaj's are *flismelined to use ice in their drinking water, because it may contain germs.; i Ail danger is avoided hy-dropping one of these metal eggs into one's tumbler. The*" refrigerating egg is a little less than full of water, so as to allow for the slight expansion of the liquid in freezing; otherwise, of course, the capsule would burst. After being filled the capsule is sealed so perfectly that no one can tell where the opening was, and thus it is absolutely water tight. Such an egg of metal, it is said, can hardly he broken, and ought to last- forever.