The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-01-01
FOOD FOR THE BONES.
What Kind OF Erehd people should
Eat To- have Good Bones and
Sound Teeth.
Valuable Suggestions for Parents.
lE ON me Hcrnld Of HeaIlhN

That bread made of unbolted wheat
flour is more wholesome than that
made of fine or bottled flour, Is, sup
pose, admitted by all good physiOIo-
gists; and the reasons why It is more
wholesome have been laid before the
public II thousand times, and in nearly
as many different forms, so that If peo-
Pile who read at all are ignorant of
them, II is their own fault.
| should probably help the cause of
dietetA reform very little by reproduce
ing here the usual arguments in favor
of uubO!tcd Hour. Ihave no intention;
but there Is one point of view from
which the subject is seldom looked at
IA reason for eating bran. which even
Graham, 1 think, overlooked; n most
important one too. Perhaps this one
additional reason may have weight
enough To turn the scale with some
sensible hOusckecpers, in favor OF
brown br"aG. With that hope, will
here state IL.
Most people know that they carry
about with them II skeleton, and that
this skeleton is made up OF n series OF
bones OF various sizes and shapes. They
know that this skeleton plays Il very
Important part in the animal economy;
that il determines the general forms of
our bodies; gives iirInness and stability
to the human ii SuIc,and, by means Of lis
system of levers, helps to constitute the
powerful locomotive apparatus with
which we are furnished; that II l., in
fact, essential not only 10 our activity,
but TO our very existence. So much
about our bones Is well understood
But how are these bones formed?
What are they made of? How are they
noun slIea?
How lev have given these questions
"a Thought! Even teachers OF dietetiCs
have generally left the bones out of the
account III their lessons; and IL Is due to
the wI-t. provision al nature. which has
circumscTibcd our power To harm our
selves, rather than to our knowledge of
the wants ut the human organism, that
the bones themselves have not been
completely starved out Uf the body.
IfSou immense a bone III dilute by
drOchluTic tcjd-nu" part Of acid to
about ten at waIcr-aHd allow II to re
main for a lev days, you viii find, on
taking II out, that II has lost lis hard 70
ness and IirInuess, and become so nexi-
bIe that il may readily he lied into Il
knot The acid haas dissolved those ma
t-Tials III the bone which made II hard
aud firm. That which remains is
mainly carthage or gluten. The
material essential to the fOrIna-
ton at this cartilage, are Hbun-
dnnt in the most common article,
OF dirt-bTr:td, vegetables. Hr~h-mcht,
.-tc: and M They ace merely such uS are
r.Uuirrd for the nuurIshmrnI Of other
parts Ui tn" body, no special provision,
IN our dietary, need n" mai" TOR tins
portion of the bone
Now, If "" take .IHo' her bone, and ..
Im-'ead oi inmrr-inG II la the acid
Subitct il IO the action II lire, where h'.
atmosphere may have tree access, Il
Will finally become. perfectly White,
the organic or "UiIHhl materials pre-
served III the previous experiment be
ing entirely destroyed ter carried oil
The portion which remains ~ precisely
that which. in the other case, WAS dis
solved and removed by the aCId. liz
materials Hr" entirely mineral, and
comprise GG-1u per cent, OF the ~ distance
of the bone; IN other words, bone Is
composed of
pr,.oI,Ir or animal mailer 3;-.n
InUu:auic or mineral maLIcT............. tli-I0