Life — June 30, 1927 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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Life Water—$10 a Glass © 1027, we noe “YOUR trip evidently did you a world of good. What happened? “Big no medicine—just water. I drank gallons and gal ‘ialist ordered me abroad to a water-cure plese to drink water—lots of it— llons during the weeks I was there. Counting steamers, railroads, hotels and doctors, that water must have cost $10 4 lass bur it was every penny. ughing at?” “Laughing at the price you rich men pay for miracles. or ordered me to drink water, too, Lots of it—8 glasses It worked miracles for me. What are you While you were away my day. Told me ever: to have my prescription filled straight from our own faucet And T newer felt better in my hife.”* T is a curious fact that some people cannot be made to realize the value of drinking water freely unless they pay a big price for it. Many famous health- resorts have built their reputations by making popular the habit of drinking water in generous quantities rather than on the medicinal quality of their mineral springs. And pure water—drunk as regularly at home as it is taken at the spas—will often produce health “mira- cles”. Nowadays good doctors agree that almost everybody, except those who need a specially selected diet, should drink water regularly—one glass be- fore breakfast, one in the forenoon, one in the afternoon, one before going to bed, and one with each meal—six to eight glasses of water a day. The doctors say, also, that more than tworthirds of the weight of the body is water, that water forms the bulk of the blood, and that three quarts of water a day are needed for the body's daily necessities. If the blood does not get the water it needs—either as a beverage or in food—it will absorb water from the tissues of the body and be over loaded with harmful waste products as well. Poisons, produced by our organs in the business of living, are eliminated largely by means of the water we drink. If too little is taken, they tend to remain in the body. This summer you probably will be motoring, hiking, or camping out in the country. Take care that the water you drink is pure. Sometimes those cool and inviting brooks, springs and old wells carry deadly typhoid germs. To be safe, before your begin, make an appoint- ment with your doctor for inoculation against typhoid fever. It is a simple matter and gives immunity for two or three years. summer trips To keep in the best physical trim at home or abroad, drink plenty of Nature's marvelous health-giver—pure water. Medical experts warn us that those who neglect to drink ay the penalty. Symptoms ches, muscular and neuralgic pains, dullness, inertic ‘and intestinal stasis—may result from drinkin; sufficient water will svenrually. of digestive disturbance, heada 1g too little water. Metropol! have ave practically disapy litan Life statisticians r ared in rt that whiletyphoid scourges oe chins and in other places —1aifior hold can be Typhoid Fe family from water which may where the water supply is protected, typhoid is still a menace ———tev in many rural areas and wherever the water becomes con- taminated. amped out. Send for,the Metropolitan 2 Insurance ‘Company's free booklet" The fever”. Learn, how The Conquest of t ast Hf and fo protect yourse your HALEY FISKE, President. Published by METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY ~NEW YORK Biggest in the World, More Assets, More Policyholders, More Insurance in force, More new Insurance each year comicbooks.com