Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-09-11
save the Children.

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of their superior strength, may moi
seriously affect the health of adults, as
is well known, frequently acts upon
more delicate of the child to produce
disorders of the most serious character.
poiscn that would be harmless TO an
adult will cause the death Of an infant.
This great difference between the vi.
tality of adults and children is too
generally overlooked In the prepsra.
ton of food. Because no harm imme.
diately 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 ar
ticles, If light, sweet aud composed of
materials that are free from injurious
substances, are easily digested, nutri-
tious and wholesome. There is dam
ger to our children, however. lurking
In their bread and cake which is too
often lost sight of. These articles are
now leavened largely by. baking pow
ders, and when pure and wholesome
baking powders are used they make
not only the most paletable food, but
one much more wholesome and nutri.
tious than If leavened with yeast or
cream Of tartar and soda. The trouble
arises from the fact as shown from re-
cent 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
cako Is made with the use of these
cheap baking powders these ingredi-
ents (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 copsti-
tutions, growing girls. young chill
dren and nursing mothers are partic-
ularly liable to the evil effects pro-
duced by the adultera named as
found In the cheap baking powders.
Heartburn ana the prevalent forms of
indigestion are often solely traceable
to the action of alum on the delicate
coats Of the stomach. Professor Will
ard 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 on the
evils arising from partaking Of such
food. There should be as much care
in the choice OF baking powder as In
obtaing pure milk or In having pre-
scription compounded from pure
drugs and not from poison.
The matter IL one Of the greatest i'm
portance. particularly to the rising
generation, and while our conserva-
tive law makers are making up their
minds ss to the proper Legislation to
stop the sale of poisonous compounds,
mothers will do well to study it care
fully. The housekeeper will expert
ence no Inconvenience in discarding
the use of the adulterated baking pow
der, IL she has been using IL, as the
Royal Baking Powder upon the purity
and wbolesomeness of hich all the
government chemists agree, Is equally
accessible; hut she will need to exer-
else close watch upon her packages
from the gr Ger In order to prevent
the inferior brands from creeping into
her kitchen uEawares.
In what we have felt 1t our duty to
say In reference 10 the subject Of bsk-
Ing powder there 10 no intention to
disparsge the work or the products of
those many manufacturers iu other
lines Of food products who, with con-
scientiousness and liberality. are serv-
ing the public with pure and whole