Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-10-01
Save The Children.

son of their superior strength, ma.
not seriously affect the health of adults
as well known, frequently act upon the
more delicate organs of the child t
produce disorders of the most seriou:
character. The amount of laudanum
or other poison 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 prepar-
alton of food. Because no harm i'm
mediately preceptible comes to the
adult by the use of an article of food
no thought is given to the effect ii
may have upon the more delicate or.
gans 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, nutritious and whole
some. There is danger to our children
however, 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
wholesome baking powders are used.
they make not only the most palatable
food, but one much more wholesome
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 or
cake is made with the use of these
cheap baking powders, these ingredI-
ents (Which are present through the
efforts Of the manufacturers to pro
duce 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 afflicted.
Persons who have not strong con
stitutions, growing girls, young chill
dren and nursing mothers are par
ticuIarly liable to the evil effects pro
duced by the introduction or the adul-
terants named, as found in the cheap
baking powder. 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, L. ).
Surgeon-General Hammond, Prof Al
onZa Clark, most eminent physicians
of New York, with scores Of others,
have written and spoken most earn
cstly of evils arising from partalling Of
such food. There should be as much
care in the choice Of 4 baking powder
as in obtaining pure milk or in having
a prescription compounded from pure
drugs and not from poisons.
The matter is one of tie greatest
particularly to the rising
generations, and while our conserya-
tive law makers are making up their
minds as to the proper legislation to
stop the sale of the poisonous com
pounds, mothers will do well to study
it carefully. The hOusekeeper will eX-
perence no Inconvenience in discard
ing the use of the adulterated baking
powder, if she has been using it, as the
Royal Baking Powder, upon the purity
and WholesOmeneSS of which all the
chemists agreed, is equally
accessible: but she will need to exercise
4 close watch upon her packages from
the grocer, in order to prevent the in
ferior brands from creeping into her
kitchen unawares.