Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-11-19
SAVE THE CHILDREN.

DeIrllHeutdl lOOu- WHICH, ny IedsOn
of their superior strength, may not
seriously affect the health of adults, as
is well known, frequently acts upon
the more delicate organs of the child
to produce disorders of the most seri-
GUS character. The amount of lauda-
mum or other poison that would be
harmless to an adult will cause the
death of an infant. This great differ
ence between the vitality of adults and
children is too generally overlooked in
the preparation of food. Because no
harm Immediately perceptible comes
to the adult by the use of an 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, if light, sweet
and composed of materials that are free
from injurious substances, are easily
digested, nutritious and wholesome.
There is a danger to our children, how
ever, 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 powers are used they
make not only the most palatable food,
but one much more wholesome and
nutritive than if leavened with yeast or
cream of tartar and soda. The trouble
arises from the fact as shown by recent
scientific tests by the Government
chemists and by official boards OF health
that all these baking powders, with the
single exception of the Royal, contain
either lime, alum, phosphates, or acids
of an injurious character. Therefore
when bread or cake is made with the
use of these cheap baking powders
these ingredients (Which are present
through the efforts of the manufacture
ers to produce cheaper article) pass
into the food and are taken into the
delicate organs of childhood where they
are the source of very much of the dis
ease with which our children are
afflicted.
Persons who have not strong consti
buttons, growing girls, young children
and nursing mothers are particularly
liable to the evil effects produced by
the introduction of the adulterants
named as found in the cheap baking
powders. Heartburn and the preva-
lent forms ofindigestion are often solely
traceable to the action of alum on the
delicate coats of the stomach Prof
Willard Parker, U. S. Surgeon-General
Hammond, Prof. Alonzo Clark, most
eminent physicians of New York, with
scores of others, have written and
spoken most earnestly of the evils arts.
ing 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
importance, particularly to the rising
generation, and while our conservativ,
law makers are making up their minds
as to the proper legislation to stop the
sale of the poisonous compound
mothers will do well to study it care
fully. The housekeeper will expert
ence no inconvenience in discardin.
the use of adulterated baking powder
if she has been using it, as the Roya
Baking Powder upon the purity ant
wholesomeness of which all the Govern
ment chemists agree, is equally acces
sible; but she will need to exercise
close watch upon her packages from
the grocer in order to prevent the infer
Tor brands from creeping in her kitchen
unawares.
In what we have felt it our duty t
say in reference to the subject of bab
ing powder there is no intention t
disparage the work or the products {
those many manufacturers in othe
lines of food products who, with cor
scientiousness and liberality, are ser'
ing the public with pure and whole
some articles of diet.
"A black cat, we are told, bring
good luck. A man at Pinedale VIII
owned q black cat for nine years ha'
such good luck that he spent the las
years of his life in idleness and had hi
board paid by the county. He died il
the almshouse -NorriStoton Herald.
Female life-insurance agents ough
10 do a good business. Almost any ma
would be impressed with the uncertalnt
Of life when one of them began to tall
and, if he had any prudence whatever
would insure himself rig ut away again
immediate Somerville Jou
old gentleman Ito tramp)-"Noy
if should give you nickel, my frien,
would you spend that money as it ougl
to be spent or would you squander it fc
Intoxicating drink" Tramp-"Ho
much did you sayP" Old gentleman.
"a nickel. Tramp lsadly)-"Wel
dunno. wouldn't like to make ar
rash promises. never yet have bee