New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-09-27
THE FIGHT FOR LIFE.

SHALL WE DRIVE SLOW POISON FROM OUR BREAK
FAsT TABLE i-MORE ABOUT THE ADULTERAnON
OF BAKING POwDERs-THE SUBJECT DISCUSSED
BEFORE TIE AMERICAN SOCIAL SCIENCE Asso-
CITATION Al SARATOGA.
A nuisance that troubled Europe fifty years
ago beginning attract attention here-that s put
ting alum the bread we eat. The bread must he
flight" that 1t may be digestedi that IL. It must DO
filed by the welLknown cells accustomed
IN IT, Where beer or ale brewed those who understand
healthy bread-making procure yeast, which ghtens
the bread better than substitute ana IL esOme.
Where yeast is not readily To he obtained "baking-
powders" resorted to. and out OF them comes mis-
chef Blcarbonate soda and Of tartar.
arc acid. the constituents OF goo baking
powder Cream OF tartar sells at from sixty cents 10
eighty-nve cents pound. This high price has led
cheap baking powders" Ia be made OF alum ii sub
stitute for all OF the cream Of tartar. Alum
bread look winter, tat bakers AN
inferior flour salabe bread by iis use; and they
1t. places calling 1t rock" that inadverf-
ent Expression may lot "cutsGers" known that alum
used. Alum an injurious article 10 the human
stuon large Quantities IN small quantities often
repeated IL Is the small QUANTITIES. taken every meal
that do the mischief in bread. Alum Is cReap-three
cents p,und-to the pocket but II takes what is 80
saved OF the stomach and takes 10 with fearful i
terest Alum a-trngen and is used by dyors and
others a. such. Taken frequently on the human
stomach, IL produces heartburn, Indication, gripping,
constipation dyspepsia. AMI kindred troubles resulting
from Irritation of membrane produced by
me a. ringeut properties Of alum AL these
things Inflicted by the bread eaten morning noon
and evening. To young children, growing girs, per-
sous of weakly aud scdensary occupations this
alum bread poison most especially. If reader
wants to know soneh ng OF alum let him suck lump
OF it, notice effect upon the mouth, which some
thing like that of uDrpe peisiminon then let him
reflect how upon the tender. delicate OF The
stomach. DIR. Henry A. Mott. tho celebrated analytical
chemist analyzed twen;ythree OF the baking powders
most IN use found alum IN all but IL time
We stop this poisoning thar kills
our little and perpetuates dyspepsia and cholera
Dr Mott IN his review of the subject The emit nc
A,aercan, makes special mention OF having amalyz,d
the Royal Baking Powder, aud found II composed o.
wholesome materials lie also advises the public TO
AVOID purchasing baking powders sold loose o
buk as he found b. analyses OF many samples that he
worst adulteratiOns are practised tnis The
label and Trademark of weli-known and csponslne
Manufacturers adds Is the best protection the public
can have. Prof Angel in his paper recently read
before the social Science Association at Saratoga
that much timely alarm s felt account of the gross
sdulteraiiOn Of Baking Powders; that eminent physi-
clans consulted and that 1t appears more
than 800 alum BAKING Powders manufa ctured IN
cents pound. while cream OF tartar costs more tnan
thirty cents that the makers OF these powders sust
tut alum for of tartar In part altogether and
tie result Is gripping, constipation, Indigestion, heart
Ourn and dyspepsia. %