Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-08-13
WHY WE ARE SICK

| No device that can add to the comfort
and convenience of dwelling is omitted
! in our modern architecture, and money is
not regurded when the luxury of clothing
or beauty of personal adornment is in
question. Hence we all live in better
houses and wear better clothes than did
our forefathers. Why should we not
take the same better care of, our health? |
Why should dyspepsia, and the train of |
diseases that follow it, almost unknown
in the olden time, be SO prevalent now? |
Simply because of the poisonous and in
digestible trash which in these days is |
forced upon the public as genuine food,
or used to adulterate those articles that
go to make up the daily bill of fare of
every household. Our forefathers were
content to make money by plain and hon
est methods; but the hot competition of
the present day and the strife for rapid
riches have called forth all the ingenuity
of modern science to devise cunning de-
ceptionS that shall enable the ayariciouS
dealer to more rapidly increase his profits,
even though he destroy the health of the
public, thereby. The consequence is
adulterated, impure, poisonous and bogus
food on every hand.
The people buy these adulterated arti-
cles of food because they are cheap, en-
tirely ignorant of their poisonous quail
t ties. A few years ago this evil had reach
ed such alarming proportions in England
that the public sentiment demanded legis-
lative interference and parliament enact
ed the most severe repressive laws. DR..
Small, L. S. a., after an examination re-
> Gently made under the direction of the
$ War Department, concludes that the
e admiration of food is as great i'll this
u country to-day, and Of as dangerous
time referred to. No article entering so
generally into the food of every family
n has been found more villainously adulter-
IS ated than baking powder. For the pur-
v, pose of underselling an absolute pure
" powder like the 'sRoyal"-which has be-
come the standard for purity and strength
in baking powders-hundreds of dealer
are putting up baking powders with
is cheap and adulterated cream of tartar
Il containing lime, earth, etc, adding
p strength by the free use of alum. These
powders are sold cheap, but their use is
III expensive, for they are one of the CHIEF
causes Of the dyspepsia from which the
of American people are suffering. This
is species of adulteration, at least, can BIZ
avoided by following the advice of Prof
Mott, the chemist to the government
" who recommends consumers ''when pur
49, chasing baking powders to select ont
'n- standard powder, as the Royal Baking
Powder, rather than to risk purchasing
~ adventurous compounds put upon TIN
mo market by persons who have no highe
lex motive than dollars and cents
at We hope to see congress take hold O
this important matter in a sufficient,
vigorous manner to put an end to tn
zen whole nefarious business. In the mean
IND time, if people will be as careful to bu,
-. ~ the best and purest food as they are t.
wear the best clothes and build the mos
ing comfortable houses, it will not be neces
sary to ask SO frequently the question
TO-, s.Why are we sick?" Every scientifi
lee test has proven the s'Royal' to be pur
LOT and wholesome.
ted
ub- 1.-TWO teaspoonfuls of cream of tarta
of fnd one or soda 10 quart OF Hour wa
b formerly the standing direction in ever
kitchen for making light biscuit, CAKE
, :. etc. 1t has been found Of late that th
old rule won't work, double this quantit
Of cream of tartar being frequently II
ieh- quired to produce the former result, an
all even then, owing to the great variatio
title in strength of the best cream of tarta
that eau be purchased at the stores, un
Use form results can no longer be depende
upon in its use.