New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-09-29
SAVE THE CHILDREN.

Detrimental foods. which, by reason
of their superior strength, may not seri.
ouslv affect the health Of adults, as is
well known, frequently act upon the
more delicate organs Of the child to pro-
duce disorders of the most serious cha
racter. The amount of laudanum or
other poison that would be harmless to
an adult will cause the death of an in
FAINT. This great difference between the
vitality of adults apd children is too
generally overlooked in the preparation
of food. Because no harm Immediately
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 articles, if light, sweet
and composed of materials that are free
from injurious substances, are easily
digested, putricous and wholesome.
There is y 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
baking powders, and when pure and
wholesome baking powders are used,
they make not only the most palatable
food, but one much more wholesome
and nutritYe 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 Govern
ment 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 cake is made
with the use of these cheap baking pow
ders these ingredients (Which are ore
sent through the efforts of the manufac-
turers 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 af-
ficted.
Persons who have not strong consti-
buttons, 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 ply
sicians Of New York, with scores of
others, have written and spoken most
earnestly Of the evils arising from par
taking of such food. There should be
as much care in the choice of baking
powder as in obtaining pure milk OF in
having a 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 aressmaking up their minds as
to the proper legislation to stop the
sale of the poisonous compounds, moth
ers will do well to study it carefully.
The housekeeper will experience no in
convenience in discarding the use Of
adulterated baking powder, if she has
been using it. as the Royal Baking
Powder, upon the purity and whole
OF which all the Government
chemists agree, is equally accessible;
but she will need to exercise q close
watch upon her packages from the gro
Ger. in order to prevent the inferior
brands from creeping into her kitchen
unowarac