Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-02-18

getic worker in the cause of Bread.
She has thoroughly studied the CUES
ton and talks with fuency and inter.
est upon 1t. ''The present generation. 81
she said, "believe as firmly as they
believe the earth is round that the
best -four is the whitest. 1t is a deep
seated rejudice, which has been Ca
tered to for years, and it is harmful
and WHO'LL unwarranted idea.
Apart from the fact that white flour
can be so readily adulterated with
alum and other pernicious substances,
Its very whiteness is sign that all its
wholesome properties have been alb
stracted from it, which in itself one
might almost call adulteration. Very
white -four is deprived Of the glueth
of the wheat, which is what may be
compared to the lean part of meat.
while only the starch, which cores
ponds with the fat part of the meat.
remains. By using the fine -four of
the entire wheat, which causes the
bread to be brown. which the senti-
mental people of the present day do
not like; all the mineral properties of
the wheat are retained, and bread be-
comes wholesome and relia bic arti-
Gle of food"
In the white bread which the
makers of to-day supply, adulterated
with alum in the German portions of
the city, or with anything else which
will satisfy the eyes and not the diges-
tive organs of the people, there is an
excess of starch, which gives rise to
diseases dependent upon fatty degen-
Grafton. Majendie, the celebrated
scientist, took two dogs, one of which
he fed on white -four, while to the
other he gave -four made of the en-
tire wheat. In forty days the dog
which had received the white flour
died Of starvation; the other remained
in perfect health, and could have
lived indefinitely with no other food.
It is possible to walk from San Fran
cisco to New York with no other food
but sound wheat. The health, in the
opinion of doctors familiar with the
subject, would be in no wise impair
ed and the vigor as satisfactory as
ever. This feat, however, would be
impossible with nothing but the
white bread supplied at the present
time. DR.. Hammond, of this city, on
one occasion tried to live OF starch.
At the end of ten days he was forced
to give up mis- attempt. An excess of
starch will cause Bright's disease of
the kidneys and paralysis. The re-
ports and statistics of the Massachu-
sets board of education show that
two-thirds of the children under ten
years of age in every civilized COM
munity are found with diseased teeth.
This is not the case with the Indian
children in the India territories, and
this fact is accounted for by the cir
cumstance that the Indians live upon
wheat, which supplies food for the
teeth. With the wealth of the metro
polls bread does not form very large
constituent of the daily food. But
with the poorer people it is sine qua
NON OF existence and in many miser.
able districts nothing else is eaten. The
smaller bakers ape the IRREGULARITIES
OF their more thriving fraternity.
They see that white bread is the fash.
ion In the upper part of the city. and
they are determined not to be outdone.
They adulterate their bread to make it
white, while using the entire wheat,
instead of merely the kernel; their
bread would be wholesome and health
giving. and its brown color, to which
people would become speedily accus-
toned. would need no adulteration.
1.-The outside part of the wheat is
most nutritious" said Dr.. Carleton,
but its use is entirely discouraged,
owing to the fact that housekeeoers
will use nothing but white bread.
The very best part of the wheat is
utterly rejected, and bcead is no
longer capable Of sustaining life
alone"
The white -four used in ordi-
nary bread contains no sulpher, while
the flour made from the entire wheat
has LIS parts in 1000. One of the
late commissioners of Indian affairs.
Hon. q. 2. Smith, declares that he
never saw a baid-headed Indian, and
the physicians account for this by the
fact that the Indians eat wheat. Hair
contains from 3.5 to IS per cent. of
sulphur and if food contains no sui
phur the hair must naturally suffer.
Inc lmpOv erished condition of the
bread to-day does not come within the
jurisdiction of the board of health for
the reason before stated that the board
can only prevent the use of adulter-
ants resulting in Immediately per-
nicious results. Harmless adulterants
and the use of articles from which the
nutritive powers have been robed, is
to touch. Several doctors
in this city are prescribing bread made
OF entire wheat for their patients, and
IN many cases very satisfactory results
have been reported.