Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1886-03-20
BREAD MUST BE WHITE.
FASHIONS ARBITRARY RULE con-
ceRNlNo THE STAFF OF LIFE.


clan says-The Brown Loaf the Best-A
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 q loaf until 1t he
what she calls milky A brown tint, sho
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-
sciousness they may recognize the fact that il
white bread be 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 to- be unscientific and
leave the hygienic side Of the question alono
as irrelevant and immaterial
An agitation on this subject, however, Is
taking place, and there is no doubt that in
short time it will assume formidable proper
tons 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 H. 5. 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 to be round that the
lest -four is the whitest. It is a deep-seated
prejudice, which has been catered TO for
years, and il Is a harmful and wholly unwar-
ranted idea
THE DOCTOR GOES on TO SAY:
Apart from the fact that white -four can
be so readily adulterated with alum and other
pernicious substances, its very whiteness is
sign that all its wholesome properties have
been distracted from it, which in itself one
might almost call adulteration, Very white
-four is deprived of the gluten Of the wheat,
which Is what may 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 alum 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. 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 entire wheat.
In forty days the dog who had received the
white -four died of starvation; the other re-
manned in perfect health, and could have lived
with no other food.
1t is possible to walk from San Francisco
TO New York with no other food but sound
wheat Thehealth, in the opinion of doctors
familiar with the subject, would be 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 Brights disease Of the kid
neys and paralysis. The reports and statistics
Of the Massachusetts, board of education show
that two-thirds of the children under 10 years
Of age in every civilized community are found
with diseased teeth
THE BROWN LOAF Is THE BEST.
This is not the case with the Indian chill
dren in the Indian territories, and this fact is
accounted for by the circumstance that tho
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 II 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 10 make it white, while using the en-
tire wheat instead of merely the Kernel; their
bread would be Wholesome and health-giving,
end its brown color, TO which people would
become speedily accustomed, would need no
dulterntion.
"The outside part of the wheat is most nu-
tritious," 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-
tanning life alone"
The white -four used in ordinary bread con-
tains no sulphur, while the -four made from
the entire wheat has l.5 parts in 1000. One
of the late commissioners Of Indian affairs,
Hon c. p Smith declared that he never saw q
baldheaded Indian, and the physicians account
for this by the fact that the Indians eat wheat.
Hair contains from SO TO 7.3 per cent. If sui
thur, and II food containing no sulphur 10
used the hair must naturally suffer.
The impoverished condition of the bread o.
today does not come within the jurisdiction
Of the board of health for the reason before
stated that the board tan only prevent the use
of adulterants resulting in Immediately per-
nicious results Harmless adulterants and the
use Of articles from which the nutritive pow
ors have been robbed, ii is powerless to touch.
Several doctors in this city are prescribing
bread made Of entire wheat for their patients,
and in many cases very satisfactory 70
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A Selection from Thieves Slang.
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meaning and very clear one, too. 1t Is Q
selection from thieves slang, which, trans
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ut the detective watching the pic<pockei
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