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A SCARCITY OF WATER

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 4, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 18.

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A SCARCITY OF WATER.

In Venice, water is something of a luxury, as the inhabitants have to depend upon the rains for its supply. There is no water company for supplying the city. That for drinking and domestic uses is collected in subterranean reservoirs, where it is said to be filtered. Let those believe it who can. The water is doled out at the public wells of the city, which are open one hour daily for that purpose, and then as carefully locked up. Notwithstanding this apparent scarcity of the fluid, a glass of water always accompanies a cup of coffee. The custom is to drink the coffee and then swallow the water. Which is the antidote of the other?