ive. Overloading the stomach with strong meats in the
summer season not only induces thirst but positively enfeebles the body
and hurts the digestion.

Ice and ices should be avoided as much as possible; at the best their
use is but a very artificial way of cooling the overheated body. A
mixture of ice and stimulants is worse ten times. A cup of good tea is
one of the most wholesome beverages one can take in warm weather. It
exhilarates, it cools, and while it cools the body it calms the mind.

Lime or lemon juice and water make a good drink. It should be sipped.

Ginger beer is somewhat too gassy for a delicate stomach. Raspberry
syrup in water, acidulated to taste with a little citric acid, is very
refreshing, and the same may be said of many other of the fruit syrups.

Raspberry vinegar is made by placing three pounds of the picked fruit
into a glass vessel and pouring over them a pint and a half of white
wine vinegar. It should stand for a fortnight and then be strained
without pressure.

Buttermilk is as good for a drink in summer as it is for the complexion.
Whey is also an excellent drink in summer, and I cannot refrain from
suggesting as a summer dish curds and cream.

Ripe fruit may be eaten during hot weather with great benefit, only it
must be ripe and not over ripe.

To conclude, I shall give a prescription for a summer drink which is
worth making a note of. Take the thin peel and the juice of a good-sized
lemon and add a small teaspoonful of citric acid and a wine-glassful of
fruit syrup, then pour on of boiling water one quart. Let it stand till
cold, and then strain.

GIRLS' FRIENDSHIPS.

By the Author of "Flowering Thorns."

CHAPTER I.

IDEAL FRIENDSHIPS.

I don't suppose there are many girls between the ages of sixteen and
twenty-three who have not a great friend--a particular friend; and if
there are, it is my opinion they cannot be the best kind of girls,
because unnatural.

Some one--I think it is the author of "John Halifax, Gentleman"--has
called friendship a "Foreshadowing of love"; and if it is natural for a
woman to have a lover, it is no less natural for a girl to have a great
friend among her girl associates.

How do girls make friends? and why do their friendships last very often
but a short time? or, again, how is it they ever endure a long time? are
questions which people who have forgotten their own early friendships,
or, perhaps, never gave much thought to them