The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-08
SAVE THE CHILDREN.

Detrimental food which, by reason O
their superior strength, may not serious
ly affect the health of adults, as is vel
known, frequently acts upon the NOR,
delicate organs of the child to produc.
disorders of the most serious character
The amount of laudanum or othel
poisons that would be harmless to al
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 percepti
BILE 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 deli.
cate 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 di-
gested, 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 bak-
ing powders, and when pure and whole
some baking powders are used they
make not only the most palatable food,
but are much more wholesome and nu-
tritive 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 chem
lists and by official boards of health, that
all these baking powders, with the single
exception of the Royal, contains either
lime, alum, phosphate or acids of an in
furious character. Therefore when
bread or cake is made with the use of
these cheap baking powders these ingre-
dents (which are present through the
efforts 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 our
children are afflicted.
Persons who have not strong constitu-
tons, growing girls, young children and
mothers are particularly liable
to the evil effects produced by the intro
duction of the adulterants named as
found in the cheap baking powders.
Heartburn and the prevalent forms of
indigestion 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 arising from partaking of such food.
There should be as much care in the
choice Of baking powder as in obtain
ing pure milk or in having prescription
compounded from pure drugs and not
from poisons.
The matter is one of the greatest i'm
portance, particularly to the rising gen
Grafton, and while our conservative law
are making their up minds as to
the proper legislation to stop the sale
of the poisonous compounds, mothers
will do well to study it carefully. The
housekeeper will experience no inconve-
nience in discarding the use of the adul-
terated baking powder, if she has been
using it, as the Royal Baking Powder,
upon the purity and wholesomeness of
which all the Government chemists
agree, is equally accessible but she will
need to exercise close watch upon her
packages from the grocer in order to
prevent the inferior brands from creep
ing into her kitchen unawares.
In what we have felt it our duty to
say in reference to the subject Of baking
powder there is no intention to disparage
the work or the products of those many
in other lines of food
products who, with consciousness
and liberality, are serving the public
with pure and wholesome articles of
diet.