The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-06-05
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Detrimental food which, by reason OF
their superior strength, may not serious
ly affect the health of adults, as is well
known, frequently acts upon the more
delicate organs of the child to produce
disorders of the most serious character.
The amount of laudanum or other poi
son that would be harmless to an 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 precept-
ible 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 articles, if light, sweet
and composed of materials that are free
from injurious substances, are easily di-
gested, nutritious and wholesome.
There is 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 one 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 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 cake is made with the use of
these cheap baking powders these in
gradients (which are present through
the efforts of the manufacturer to pro-
duce cheap 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 consti-
tutions, growing girls, young children,
and nursing mothers are particularly
liable to the evil effects produced by the
introduction 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 powders as
in obtaining pure milk or in having
prescription compounded from pure
drugs and not from poisons.
The matter is one of the greatest inn
portance, particularly to the rising gen
Grafton, and while our conservative law
makers are making up their minds as
to the proper legislation to stop the sale
of the poisonous compounds, mothers
will do well TO study il carefully The
housekeeper will experience no incon-
venience in discarding the use of the
adulterated baking powder, IL she has
been using it, as the Royal Baking Pow
der upon the purity and wholesomeness
OF which all the Government chemists
agree, is equally accessible; but she will
need to exercise a 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 bak-
ing powders there is no intention to dis
parage the work or the products of those
many manufacturers in other lines of
food products who. with conscientious
ness and liberality, are serving the pub
lie with pure and wholesome asticles of
diet,