WATER-DRINKERS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4560, 7 May 1923, Page 3

WATER-DRINKERS.

FEATURE OF AMERICAN LIFE. . “ I was in America for six weeks, and I must confess that I never felt so well in my life,’- said Mr. M. Cable, electrical engineer to the City Corporation, who has just returned toiWellington (states the “Dominion.”) “lam not quite sure what it was, but I think it was their way of living which I found suited my health. They drink a lot of water there. A pitcher of iced water is served at all meals, winter and summer, and I got to like it, and it seemed to invigorate one. The.fact that it is iced seems to remove its insipidity, if one might call it such. In America they do not drink tea like we do—neither do they at Home. In America they take coffee for breakfast, and after dinner in the evening, but tea-drinking as we knowjit does not exist, not even in the offices. There ate no breaks for afternoon tea lor the girls in America—that so; t of thing would not be tolerated. “ (Jue thing 1 noticed in connection with the water supply,” continued Mr. Cable; “ was a regular service of water from some special spring. This is contained in big glass jars or cisterns, which are taken round to office buildings by motor waggons. I did not learn if the water had any medicinal value, but it was evidently-special water that was- much in demand—even x when the snow was on the ground.”