Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1886-08-12
Save The Children

Detrimental food which, by reason of
their superior strength, may not seriously
affect the health Of adults, rs is well known
frequently acts upon the more delicate or
gans of the child to produce disorders of
the most serious character. The amount
of laudanum or other poison that would he
harmless to an adult will cause the death
Of an infant. This great difference between
the vitality Of adults and children is too
generally overlooked in the preparation of
food. Because no harm Immediately per-
celtible comes to the adult by the use of All
article of food. no thought is given to the
effect it may have upon the more delicate
organs of inferior age
Children diet largely upon cake and bread
and these articles il light, sweet and COM
posed of materials that are free from inju-
rious substances, are easily digcsted nutri
tious and Wholesome. There Is danger tn
our children, however, lurking in their
bread and cake which is too often lost sight
OF. These articles are now leavened largely
by baking powders, and when pure and
wholesome baking powders are used they
make not only the most l'alatable food, hut
one much more wholesome and nutritious
than il leav.iied with yeast ar cream Of tar
tar and soda. The trouble arises from the
fact as shown by recent scientific tests by
the government chemists and hy official
boards at health. that all these baking pow
,lers, with the single exception of the Roy
al, contain either lime, alum, pho>piIaf
ar acids of an injurious character. Teherf1re
when bread ar cake is made with the use of
these cheap baking powders these ingieli-
of the manufacturers to produce II cheaper
article) lssss into the food and are taken into
the delicate organs of childhood where they
are the source Of very much of the disease
with which our children are afflicted.
Persons who have not strong constitu-
tons. growing girls, young children and
nursing IlOthers are particularly liable to
) the evil effects produced by the introduction
of the atlulterants named as found in the
cheap baking powders. Heartburn and
the prevalent forms of indigestion are often
solely traceablc to the action Of alum on the
delicate coatsoft he stomach. Prot. Willard
Parker, u. :. SurgeOn-tieneral Hammond,
Prot. AlOnzo Clark, most eminent physi-
clans Of New York, with scores Ot others,
have written and spoken most earnestly Of
the evils arising from partaking OF such
food. There should be as much care in the
choice Of a baking powder as in obtaining
pure milk or in having a prescription COM
pounded from pure drugs and not from
poisons.
The matter is one Of the greatest import
ance, particularly to the rising generation,
and while our conservative law makers are
making up their minds as to the proper leg
islation To- stop the sale of the poisonous
compounds, mothers will do well To- study
| il carefully. The bOusekecper will experi-
ence no Inconvenience in discarding the Use
. OF the adutcratc,i baking powder, il she mas
been using it, AS the Royal Baking Powder
upon the purity and wholesoneness Of
which all the Government chemists agree,
rs equally accessible; but she will need to
exercise close watch upon her packages
from the grocer in order tn prevent the infc-
rior brands from creeping .nlo her kitchen
unawares.
In what We have felt il our duty To say
in reference To the subject of baking powder
there is no intention iO ,isl,arage the work
or the products OF those many manufacture
ers in other lines oi food products who. with
coiiscieniiousn, IS aud lIberality, are serving
the public with pnre and wholesome articles
| at diet.