Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-03-19
BREAD MUST BE WHITE.
FASHIONS ARBITRARY RULE con-
ceRNIN0 THE STAFF OF LIFE.
The Hygienic Side of the Question Of
Secondary Impcrtance-what a Physi-
clan says-The Brown Loaf the Best-A
Cause Of Badness Explained.


Cause Of Badness Explained.
There are fashions in bread, and bakers pan
der to them. These fashions do not take the
form of additional nutriment or hygienic reg
ulation. On the contrary, their existence
weakens the wholesome principles Of bread
and sacrifices everything sanitary to outward
appearance. Bread must be white. A house.
keeper declines TO look at loaf until il be
what she calls milky" A brown tint, she
has been taught to believe, implies defective
bread, and, besides, its aspect is not pleasing
This religion is carefully instilled into girls
and at the present time there is a demand for
nothing but white bread. Bakers may have
secret ideas on the subject; in their inner con-
seriousness they may recognize the fact that If
white bread I've used largely its effects may
not be as healthful as those of browner bread,
but they pander to the fashion, and as long as
that fashion supplies them with loaves and
fishes they are content 10 lie unscientiflc and
leave the hygienic side of the question alone
as irrelevant and immaterial
An agitation ON this subject, however, is
taking place, and there Is no doubt that in q
short time it will assume formidable proper
lions. Several enthusiasts whose ideas run in
other grooves than those OF dollars and cents
have been giving the point very mature con-
sideration. Physicians have been consulted
and their sympathies enlisted, and a move
ment started. Mrs II. s. c. Jones is an en-
ergetic worker in the cause of bread. She
has thoroughly studied the question and talks
with fiuency and interest upon it. "The pres
ent generation she said, believe as firmly
as they believe the earth 10 be round that the
best -four is the whitest. IL is deep-seated
prejudice, which has been catered 10 for
years, and it is harmful and wholly unwar-
ranted idea"
THE DOCTOR GOES on TO SAY:
apart from the IA. that white -four can
be so readily adulterafcd with alum and other
pernicious substances its very whiteness Is a
sign that all its wi )lesome properties have
been abstSacted from it, which in itself one
might almost call q lulteration, Very white
flour is deprived Of the gluten of the wheat,
which is what mey be compared to the lean
part of meat, while only the starch which
corresponds with the fat part of tine meat, re-
mains. BY using the fine -four of the entire
wheat, which causes the bread TO be brown,
which the sentimental people Of the present
day do not like, all the mineral properties Of
the wheat are retained. and bread becomes
wholesome and reliable article Of food
In the white bread which the makers of to-
day supply, adulterated with alun in the Ger
man portions of the city, or with anything
else which will satisfy the eyes and not the
digestive organs of the people, there is an ex-
cess of starch, which gives rise to diseases de-
pendent upon fatty degeneration. Mnjendie,
the celebrated scientist, took two dogs, one of
which he fed on white -four, while TO the
other he gave -four made of the entire wheat
In forty days the dog who had received the
white flour died Of starvation: the other re-
manned in perfect health, and could have lived
indefinitely with no other food.
1t is possible to walk from San Francisco
to New York with no other food but sound
wheat. The health, in the opinion of doctors
familiar with the subject, would he in no wise
impaired and the vigor as satisfactory as ever
This feat, however, would be impossible
with nothing but the white bread sup
piled at the present time. DIR. Ham
mond of this city, on one occasion tried to
live on starch. At the end of ten days he was
forced to give up his attempt. An excess of
starch will cause Bright's disease of the xiii
neys and paralysis. The reports and statistics
of the Massachusetts, board of education show
that two thirds Of the children under 10 years
with diseased tee,h
THE BROWN LOAF Is THE BEST.
This is not the case with the Indian chill
dren In the Indian territories, aud this fact Is
accounted for by the circumstance that the
Indians live upon wheat, which supplies food
for the teeth. With the wealthy of the me-
tropolis bread does not form very large con-
stituent Of the daily food. But with the poorer
people it is the sine qua non Of existence, and
in many miserable districts nothing else is
eaten. The smaller bakers ape the peculiari-
ties Of their more thriving fraternity. They
see that white bread is the fashion in the up
per part of the city, and they are determined
not TO be outdone. They adulterate their
bread to make it white, while using the en-
tire wheat instead Of merely the kernel; their
bread would I've wholesome and health giving,
and its brown color, to which people would
become speedily accustomed, would need no
adulteration.
HThe outside part of the wheat Is most nu-
tritious,r said DIR. Carleton, "but its use isen-
tirely discouraged, owing to the fact that
housekeepers will use nothing but white bread
The very best part Of the wheat is utterly re-
jected, and bread Is no longer capable Of sus
taining life alone"
The white -four used in ordinary bread con-
tains no sulphur, while the -four made from
the entire wheat has Is parts in 1000. Ono
Of the late commissioners of Indian affairs,
Hon @. p. Smith declared that he never saw a
baldheaded Indian, and the physicians account
for this by the fact that the Indians eat wheat.
Hair contains from 5.3 to 73 per cent. Of sui
phur, and il food containing no sulphur DO
used the hair must naturally suffer-
The impoverished condition Of the bread Of
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 uso
Of adulterants resulting In Immediately per-
nicious results. Harmless adulterants and the
use Of articles from which the nutritive pow
es have been robbed, it is powerless to touch.
Several doctors In this city are prescribing
bread made of entire wheat for their patients,
and i'm many cases very satisfactory re-
suits have been reported. York Star.
A Selection from Thieves Slang.
@Catch on to the fly piping of the dip
across the pikel He won't collar himl His
jags Is ON to the snap and he's learyln
This language to the ordinary reader may
seem completely unintelligible, but it has
meaning and a very clear one, too. 1t Is o
selection from thieves slang, which, trans
lated into everyday English, means: 4Lock