Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-10-15
Save the Children.

Save the Children.
Detrimental foods which, by reason
OF their superior strength, may not
seriously affect the health of adults, as
is we'll known, frequently act upon
the more delicate organs Of the child
to produce disorders of the most ser
iOus character. The amount OF Iauda-
mum or other poison that would be
harmless to an adult will cause the
death of an infant. This great differ
ence between the vitality of adults
and children is too generally over
looked in the preparation of food. Be
cause no harm Immediately percepti-
bic 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, nutrious and whole,
some. There is danger to our child
rem, however, lurking in their bread and
cake which is too often lost sight of.
These articles are now leavened large
ly by baking powders, and when pure
and wholesome baking powders are
used they make not only the most pal
atable food, but one much more whole
same and nutritive 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 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 OF
cake is made with the use of these
cheap baking powders these ingredi-
ents (Which are present through the
efforts of the manufacturers to produce
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 con-
stitutions, growing girls, young child
rem and nursing mothers are particu-
lafly liable to the evil effects produced
by the introduction of the adulterants
named, as found in the cheap baking
powders. Heartburn and the preva.
lent 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 oi
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 powder
as in obtaining pure milk or in having
prescription compounded from pure
drugs and not from poisons. .a
The matter is one of the greatest
importance, particularly to the rising
generation, 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 it care
fully. The housekeeper will lexperience
no inconvenience in discarding the use
of the adulterated baking powder, if she
has been using it, as the Royal Baking
Powder upon the purity and whole
someness 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 creeping into her kitchen
unawares. -l
In what We have felt it our duty te
say in reference to the subject Of bak
ing powder there is no intention te
disparage the work or the products oi
those many manufacturers in othel
lines OF food products who, with con
scientiousness and liberality, are serv
ing the public with pure and whole
some articles of diet.
The Northern Pacific Railroad com
pany is preparing to build a large
transfer boat the same size as the ont
now in use at Kalama. 1t will bt
used on the Columbia at Ainswortl
where the Cascade division crosses the
! river for transferring cars. 1t is thought
that the hull will be built at Ainswortl
and the machinery at Portland. A
craftsman for the Willamette Iror
Works in Portland was down the fort
part of the week taking the dimension'
of the machinery of the transfer boa
Tacoma, for the purpose of figuring
on what they could build the machin