Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-06-11
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Save the Children.

Detrimental foods which, by reason of
their superior strength, may not seriously
affect the health of adults, as is well
known, frequently act upon the more
delicate organs of the child to produce
disorders of Nthe most serious character.
The amount of laudanum or other poison
that would he 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
III the preparation of food. Because no
harm Immediately perceptible comes to
the adults by the use of an article of food,
no thought is given to the effect it may
have upon the more delicate organs of in
terior 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 Il danger to our children, however lurk-
ing in their bread and cake which Is too
often lost sight Of These articles are
now leavened largely by baking powders.
and when pure and wholesome baking
powders are used they make not only the
most p1latable food, but one much more
Wholesome and nutritiVe than if leaVenrd
with yeast or cream Of tartar and soda.
The trouble arises from the fact rs shown
by recent scientific tests by the Govern
health, that all these baking powders,
with the single exception of the Royal,
contains either lime, alum, phOsphates, OF
acids OF an injurious character. There
fore when bread or cake is made with the
use OF these cheap baking powders these
ingredients (Which are present through
the efforts Of the manufacturers to pro
duce IA cheaper article pass into the food
aud are taken into the delicate organs of
childhood where they are the source of
very much of he disease with which our
children are afflicted.
Persons who have not strong COnstitu-
Tons, growing girls, young children ana
nursing mothers are particularly liable
10 the evil effects producing by the intro
uuctlon 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 |. ;. Surgeon General
Hammond, Prof. AlonzO Clark, most EN-
inent physicians Of New York, with scores
OF Others have written and spoken most
earnestly of the evils arising from partak,
ing of such food. There should be as
much care in the choice of IA baking pow
der as In obtaining pure milk or in hav-
ing prescription compounded from pure
drugs and not from poisons.
The matter is one of the greatest i'm
portance, particularly to the rising gener.
alton, and while our conservative law
makers are making up their minds as to
the proper legislation to stop the sale of
poisonous compounds, mothers will do
well to study it carefully. The house
keeper will experience no inconvenience
Is discarding the use Of the aduterated
baking powder, if she has been using it, rs
the Royal Baking Powder upon the purity
and wholesomeness of which all the Gov
eminent chemists agree, is equally &C
cessible; but she will need to exercise a
close watch upon her packages from the
grocer into her kitchen unawares.
In what we have felt it our duty to say
IN reference 10 the subject of baking pow
der there Is no intention to disparage the
work or the products OF those many man
ufacturers in other lines OF food products
who, with conscientiousness and liberal
ity, are serving the public with pure and
wholesome articles of diet.