The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-03-11
The Need. of Acids.

WHEN much fat pork is eaten there win
always bea demand for pickles or vine
gar, says the report of the Massachusetts,
Board of Health. The demand for acid
is a genuine call of the system, but
| there is no especial call for the strong
| acids, such as raw lemons and pickles, if
one has from day to day, the proper sup
tpiy of moderately sour fruit Half of
the doctors would find their occupation
gone if apples were freely used as an ar
ticle of food. Fruit has never done us
the good it might have done, because 1t
has been eaten at improper hours, be-
tween meals or in the evening Ii has
actually been turned into foe to good
digestion by the process of picking and
preserving. The old fashioned pound
for pound" preserves ARE too sweet to
serve the purpose of acid fruit and too
| sweet fruit. They are simply sweet
meats, to be eaten with caution. Canned
fruit is excellent, but fresh fr1it is best
whenever it car oe Obtained The good
| effect of fresh fruit is often spelled by
| the excess of sL gar used with it.
When there is q craving for sour food,
for pickles OF for lemons, it is generally
! a strong indication that the system has a
| real need of acids, and lemons or vinegar
are sometimes the best medicine to cure
| biliousness and restore afailing appetite.
| A year ago | saw child pass through
one of these poor spells He lost his
| appetite and could not bear the sight or
smell of food until he caught sight of a
| dish of dried-apple sauce, and then he
was possessed with desire for some of
| the juice. This seemed to refresh him
and he ate for his next meal bread
/ soaked in the juice of stewed dried APP
| pies After that canned tomato, cooked
| with bread, helped forward the cure
Before this i'll turn he had for few
weeks lived almost entirely without fruit,
contrary TO his usual habit. 81. r- s.
1t is a common mistake to use fruit at
| the table only in the form of sauce at the
evening meal or incased in rich crusts as
pie for dinner. In the latter case the i'll
effect OF the pie-crust is often greater
than the good effect of the fruit inside
the pie. As for the fruit sauce on the
tea-table, it is better than heavy sup
per of meat, but there is some sense in
the old saying that g Fruit is golden in
the morning, silver athoon and lead at
night" = go - z5r rs,
Perhaps any kind of fruit or .yegeta BILE
may be used to excess or in too large
proportion as compared with the rest
of the diet Certainly acids should be
used in moderation, especially the strong
kinds. Because, the juice of a lemon
may be an excellent cure for biGousness
or fiatulence or other disease, it by no
| means follows that schoolgirls can
thrive upon their daily use. Inzformer
days, when pale and slender maidens
were in fashion, it was not very uncom.
mon for silly girls to try to reduce their
weight and ruddy hue by frequent sips
of vinegar, and many a feeble woman
and many an early death has been the
| result of such tampering, 4 variety of
vegetables and fruit, well cooked and
eaten as appetite calls for them, will
satisfy the natural demand for both sour
| and sweet food.-Faith Rochester IN
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