DISTILLED WATER | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 8, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 14.

DISTILLED WATER.

DISTILLED water is considered in the line of a luxury, but it can be made easily at home, and be kept continually on hand for cooking, drinking, and bathing. It is the only water that should be used upon the face, while for a drink for dyspeptics it is unequaled, causing no discomfort after it is taken. To make arrangements for distilling water, take a tea-kettle with a close-fitting cover, and a gutta-percha or lead pipe fastened to the spout. The pipe should lead through a pail of cold water into a receptacle for holding the distilled water. The steam from the boiling water goes through the tube, condenses under the cold water, and runs off pure into the receiver. Where houses are heated by steam, the family may be amply provided with distilled water by adding a pipe to one of the tubular heaters, which will carry steam into a cooler, from which pure water will run day and night. It should be in action all the time, that for bathing running into a close reservoir, while that for cooking and drinking should be freshly distilled every day.—Good Housekeeping.