MERAL EGGS FOR DRINKS.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 406, 18 February 1904, Page 3

MERAL EGGS FOR DRINKS.

Ovoid Caps al ex <>;: Copper Ooitt timing lee for Cooling Too-Warm ''■. 'Devcrßfif««i ;': \| '., ,-One of the' oddest of recentinvenV tions is a refrigerating egg, as ■' it might be called. It is an ovoid capsule of nickel-plated copper, about thi:.; ■ ;t .r;d shape of a-hen's egg, hollow' ai.a k'eu-rJy iilled with Water. For use it is frozen so that its contenta become ice; > says the- 'Philadelphia Posi '/:?.''■ ''-■;' 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 the beverage. But, if you have one of these eggs handy, you y\ny drop it into the glass, and in a.few. moments .the liquid is reduced to the desired temperature. In the same way you may cool-your cup of coffee, if it is too hot, and the idea is equally applicable to any other drink. Many people nowadays are ; disinclined to;use,ice in their drinking water, because it may contain g'ernis. All danger is avoided by dropping one of these metal eggs into one's tumbler. The refrigerating egg is e little' less than full of water, so as to allow for the slight expansion of the*-liquid in freezing; otherwise, of cpui-jse, the would' burst. V- Af|etf |Bbeing fijledyth'*: capsule is sealedi§o pjfrfect- • J| that no one can tell %%te the openiiuf was, and tuu's'lt is''absolutely* water tight. Such an egg of metal, it is said, can hardly be broken, and ought to last'forever.