Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-08-07
Save the Children.

Save the Children.
Detrimental food which. by reason of
their superior strength, may not seriously
affect the health of adults, as is we'll
known, frequently acts upon the more
delicate organs of the child to produce
disorders of the most serious character.
The amount Of laudanum on other poison
that would be 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 tile 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 nay
have upon the more delicate organs of
inferior age. .
Children diet largely upon cake and
bread, and these articles it light, sweet
and composed Of materials that are free
from injurious substances, are easily
1igested,s 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 powders are used they
make not only the most palatable food,
but one much more wholesome and nu-
tritive than if leavened with yeast Or
cream tartar and soda. The trouble
arises from the fact as shown by recent
scientific tests by the Government chem
lists and by official boards of health, that
all these baking powders, with the single
exception Of the Royal, contain either
lime, alum, p~hosphates, or acids OF an in
furious character. Therefore when
bread or cake is made with the use of
these cheap baking powders the ingredi-
ents (Which are present through the eff
forts Of the manufacturers to produce a
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 disease with which ou1
children are afflicted.
Persons who have not strong constitu
tions, growing girls, young children and
nursing mothers are particularly liable tt
the evil effects produced by the introduc
ton of the adulterants named as found il
the cheap baking powders. Heartburn
and the prevalent forms Of indigestion
are often solely traceable to the action o.
alum IN the delicate coats Of the stomach
Prof. Willard Parker, L. S. Surgeon
General Hammond, Prof. AlenZo Clark
most eminent physicians Of New York
with scores Of others, have written ant
spoken most earnestly of the evils arising
from partaking of such food, There
should be as much care in the choice of
baking powder as in obtaining pure mill
or in having a prescription compounded
from pure drugs and not from poisons.
The matter is one of the greatest i'm
t p~ortance, particularly to the rising gen
, Grafton, and while our conservative Law
. makers are making up their minds as t
, the proper legislation to stop the sale @
the poisonous compounds, mothers vii
do well to study it carefully, The house
keeper will experience no Inconvenience
in d%iscarding the use of the adulterate
baking powder, if she has been using i
as the Royal Baking Powder upon tn
purity and wholesomeness of which al
the Government chemists agree, is equa
III accessible; but she will need to exc
/ else a close watch upon her package
from the grocer in order to prevent tn
inferior brands from creeping into he
kitchen unaWares
In what we have felt it u duty to sa
in reference to the subject OF bakin
= powder there is no intention to diSparag
a the work of the products of those man
: manufacturers in other lines OF foo
: products who, with conscientioasness an
y liberality, are serving the public Wit
pure and wholesome articles OF diet.