The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-07-06

tinual use Of food lacking in these ele
nnents.
The experiments made in five prison
= IN Scotland bear upon this point. The.
were made to ascertain the smalles
amount offood, and the proportion of nj
: trates and carbonates, that would keeI
the prisoner up to his weight while do
J ing nothing, when it was found that By
} reducing the proportion of nitrates in the
J food from four ounces to two and three
! quarter ounces daily the prisoner lost
weight rapidly. DR.. Bellows, in com
menting upon these experiments, which he
| gives in detail, says:
/ 1t is remarkable fact which shows
the Importance of connecting science with
practice that the deterioration in the
quality of diet in Dundee prison consist
ed in substituting molasses for milk,
which had been previously used with oat
meal porridge and oat meal cakes, mo
lasses being entirely destitute of muscle
making material, while milk contains a
full proportion of these important princi-
pies.
"Th1s one experiment and its results
are worthy of study by every mother and
every house. keeper in the land. II my
class of persons would suffer less than
others from the use oftoo much carbonace-
Gus and too little heterogeneous food, it will
be that class who are idle; and yet the
one hundred prisoners of Dundee, with
an ounce more of the fat and Matchmaking
principle than those of Edinburgh, lost
two hundred and seventeen and one-half
pounds, while the same number in Edin-
burgh lost only twenty pounds the
difference in their diet being, as stated in
the report, that the prisoners of Edin-
burgh had milk with their porridge and
cakes, while those Of Dundee had mo.
lasses instead"
/ And he remarks further:
Ii the same experiment had been tried
on men in active life, or on children who
are never still except when asleep, the re-
suit would haYa been more remarkable,
in proportion to the greater waste of
muscle in those who are active, and the
greater demand for heterogeneous food; and
yet how few mothers stop to consider or
take pains to know, whether gingerbread
made of fine flour, which has but trace
OF tJod for muscle or brain, and sugar or
n.olasses and perhaps butter which have
none, or cakes made of unbolted wheat
mixed with milk or buttermilk. all of
which abound in muscle and brain-feed-
ing materials, is the best food for grow
ing, active child indeed, the whole food
of the child is given with the same want
of knowledge or consideration.
But in view of these simple expert
ments in the Scotch prisons, who can
doubt that a want of consideration of
these principles of diet is the means of
consigning TO the tomb many of our most
promising children. An intelligent far
mer knows how to feed his land, his
horses, his cattle and pigs, but not how to
feed his children. He knows that fine
flour is not good for pigs, and he gives
them the whole of the grain, or perhaps
takes out the bran and coarser part, which
contains food for muscles anG brains, and
gives them to his igs,while the fine flour
which contains neither food formuscle or
brain, he gives to his children. He sep.
arates also the milk, and gives his pigs
! the skim milk aud butter milk,in which.
are found all the elements for muscle and
brain, and gives his chiIdre the butter
which only heats them and makes them
inactive, without furnishing particle of
the nutriment which they need.o
Milk and cheese are doubtless the
! cheapest forms of animal food that can be
had in our markets. They deserve to be
more extensively used, and it is very like
ly they would enter more largely into
consumption were it not from mistaken
notions of economy, which exclude them
from the table on the supposition that
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/ healthful and nutritious articles of food.
The following occurred in school in
this county few days since.
Teacher. "Here, Mr.. Barns, is a
pupil who never fails in her Lesson.
Mary, in what direction is Vermont from
the State of New York % 1850
]. Teacher gesticulating SOFAS to indicate
the direction, but unobseryed by the
little girl who replies promptly, "North. y
Teacher. "Nc."
Girl. South" hesitatingly.
/ Teacher mo" gesticulating again.
/ Girl. "West" inquiringly.
! Teacher ono"
/ Girl. east" positively.
/ Teacher eyes. / knew you could
tell if you would only think" We fear
some one applying for a certificate next
fall will be disappointed.
/ How A MAINE LADY MAKES CHEESE.
The Maine farmer tells of dairywoman
whose former method was to run up a
| curd each morning, keeping them until
the third day; then mixing old and new
curdS together, and putting them into
the hoop and pressing. Her practice il
now to run up the curd and put it into