HOW TO HAKE WATER VERY COLD.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4573, 16 November 1875, Page 2

HOW TO HAKE WATER VERY COLD.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW ZEALAND TIMES. Sir —There is nothing more enjoyable on a hot summer’s day than a drink of pure, cold. Altered water; it is at once satisfying, and when obtainable in one’s shop, house, or oliice is calculated to effect a goodly saving of pence, ns there will be less need and desire for beer and other beverages. The following simple method for keeping or making drinking water very cold was given mo by an old Indian veteran officer. on the Lachlan, New South Wales, in 1801, and who assured mo that the plan was extensively in use in India, where it proved itself a great comfort to many of the inhabitants Take apiece of fair quality canvas and manufacture it into a round bag-say Ift. Oln. long by 32in. diameter. The bottom of the bag to bo a circular piece of canvas well sown in ; fcho mouth of the bag to bo open, and sewn to a ring of }Jin. round iron. When the bag is finished. At in side of bag Sin, up from bottom a small American wooden tap, and also attach three cords at equal distances to Iron ring or hoop, ami by which cords suspend the bag under a verandah, in any passage having a free current of air, or even in the sun, which will render the water if anything colder than any other position the bag may bo placed in. After placing a little charcoal and clean sharp sand in the

bottom of the bag. fill them with water in the even-. ing, and on the following day a sparkling glass of the pure element can be had cold enough to make any one's teeth chatter. On the Lachlan, where the thermometer ranges from 75dcg. to DOdeg. at 12 o’clock at night during the hottest months, I always could get a colder drink out of my canvas-bag, than I could obtain in any underground cellar where all cool drinks were sold.—l am, Ac., Ignis Eatuus. Wellington, November 15.