, 1876-03-25
HOUSEKEEPING.


A Chapter on Flour.
Ia IL. Editor of The thteaao qS'b"nt'
HYpE PApH, ILL.,, March pa hnro your },ouae-
keeping column may bq continued AMI bocomc
au Important feature Of yonr valuable paper.
There ia 4 Rrowfng interest HprinHtnR up all over
tho country IN regard TO trio and lieasliful foods.
It ia occnhionlng much discussion, Which will In
ti,no result In tho dissemination Of hound AID 70.
{abfo information.
At tho Last, particularly In No" EnH'snd'
thoro sooms to bo a fuller appreciation than
tl,oro is among our busy Western people Of Tho
oroat lack that exists In tho supply Of pure aud
vholceomo wheat foods. People arc waking up
however, to tho fact that whestis incomparably
Tho royal rraiu but that. 10 onr process Of pro-
pairing 1t for food, II has boon the moHt fearful.
II abused substance in tho world. .,
on,s about lilo uae Of "0ralam" flour; aud |
horo for thiog, there great nce4 49,, o. betof
information and earnest reform. This term
''ti1hhnm ia fnanomaE, and ouEht 70 70 no
| longer uAed-it menus anything and evef5thihR
fer 1t III simply a cover undor which s I'almeu
OF tho poorest and vilcst Of all wloat prepara-
| lious. Tho current "recpe" p" for Graham y ~
! third ratio iour mixed with bran. Any lnau WHO
| Knows tic vast tltfferonoo tl!are u III wheat
| fncKls knovs how very far such b flour ia from
being Tho sweat and palatabis food, sound, Iipe'
and fulgrorn %os. ~ @ oepnDo ., 81 tes
sons who cat "Grahatn," know nothing shat
eyor Of Tic beautiful nssora Of the pure. ripe.
unalulteratod grains.
orcat value In taBlng such tloura coarsc; that It
| II 1leccssaxy to lRyp " something to hcratch tie
in'aflH," 6awdust would do Just rs we'll for
that Al coarso bran. An ignorant marKat or us
in human dlel hnvo donc much 70 foster thls
notion. But thefo mover vas greater In1ssaRo.
Tho real truth is and the real benefit concs
from tho abIlity Of tho uholo wheat" plump
aud vol rlponed) 70 furnish to tho syatem slt
tho needed vital, IMMORAL elcmcnts. those
broadly termed the phosphate aud nitrosonous
Phosphorus, which ia gsneray furnished to
the syston In such wheat, Ia the great rsbulnm
OF the nerva-tiHsucH, and nerTc fofce unhetlles
and Ia the motive power Of all tho functsona Of
| tho body. The system C2n no moro digest WILL
ont nerve power than an engine can run Nithon.
ateam, and tho same eau l,o said OF every otler
function. This ~ whoEcin The whoio #hoat III
moet valuable and ThereIn @ wse or eoea ea, hoat our
supply nerve food,-for LOG pounds ct I'pe,
, plump wheat contains ever four times ~ much
Of this vital food tho earae wolEht OF white
flour docs.-so that to got tho necessary normal
/ amount OF mineral food tlero is in 100 pounde
! OF wheat ono las to cat over fonr barrels OF
white -four, and thus tax tho system TO dlBeat
ovor four times rs much ststcA ~ nature over
intended. 49,
Ii II any wonder, therefore, that digestion SO
commonly Elvea out,-that dysp0pata aud consti-
PATTON with ali their attendant evils, nro 30 eou.
l. Scye1al of your correspondents make ncnslon
o Of what tloy call 'attEiton tlonr' During q
4 rccont visit to Boston found thia nouf much ~
~ use, and highly regarded there. Why the term
"a tho manufacturers ought to abandon tho tiao Of
that tltlo aB it does not expreka what their PRO
ID duct H. It Hs,outd b called cold-gsouud (os dis,
IL integrated) wl4olo-wheat lour.-a!taougA thal
y hardly oxrroAseB it,--for the astonishing part o.
y It iB, that tho bran-port!oh Of tho wheat e 70
uced to an even fnonesa with tho rest Of tho flour
70 Thts Is new, indeed grcat achievoment; Their.
r Ia nothing like It III tho whole history OF Hour ~
= food. The cold grinding, or reduction, Uithou
= tho uso Of mill-aloney, completely protects th
10 food-eomonts from any injnryi aud tMs osoi
% tineneHs Of tho blau-portons Of the ~i'est snr
+ uiahes all that part iu Which tho vital oio1nent
seslo In 4 condition emnently prom otlro OF dl
= geBtion aud assimilation, without irritation 7
81 tho most delicate stomach, and Furthermore, I
10 for which white Or boltoa -four Las heEetofo5'
q. boon exclusively used. Hence DOT only broad
. biscuit, gemB. eso1 but doughnuts, cakea OF "a
rous klnds. pie-crast esaekors 81 oil Mnds . an.
L. is = component paIt, can now le made Of 1lou
+ containing als thu food clements Of tho wheat
Il THIS IL q most important etep. wholly 70 th'
~ right direction, aud sucl. products should re
il illK person in tho cotulaunlty-indeed, ~ ~
y,.s saenl / T. gsp0fay &C. n 'laea .ssa
a1ss,nalo sme f's' te ,' p1eiudices barnsccd upo
q long habs ID tho uso Of white devitallze
~ Hour, ltefo1ms of this kind como slowly
I'd proiudcoa aro sostrong, and tho apathy Of poopl
BY u,,oa matters not Affecting their nnctiate cot
~ aeousnesa Ia 80 hard to rouse. Yct .horo is nc
- . family iu tho land but TINT sous Of ish mon
" borp hro more OF lesa suffering from soule fori
bo of tho prevailing weal, ncssoue, and dyspeptl
ia alueuts, to say nothing Of tho bad teet6, dt
d, fectiyo bones, weak musclar development, no
cr SO usual. ID tleso DAYS Of inHIaious norvou
es diseaaos, paralysis, heart-disoase, md iasan.t
III whore there to auch frequent md euddon ercal
Iva. - kF1
llo tired, care.worn. besoeching faces Of ucl
in women, and chlldEon for so,nething they lack
IT, 1t is that flour, which IL tho universal loo
~ ~ should contain a the vital sustaining cemcn
~ ~ Which God Intended innn should have whcn Il
~. ~. provided III full food that nlost natvelot
NC senI..t,nce-rhnat ". H. y.