The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-07-08
BREAD MUST BE WHITE.
FASHIONS ARBITRARY RULE con-
CERNlNG THE STAFF OF LIFE.

The Hygienic Side Of the Question of
| Secondary Importance-Whata Physi-
clan says-The Brown Loaf the Best-A
Cause of Badness Explained.
There are fashians in bread, and bakers PAN
| der TO them. These fashions do not take the
| form of additional nutrinlent or hygenic reg
uation. On the contrary, their existence
weakens the wholesome principles of bread
and sacrifices everything sanitary to outward
| appearance Bread must he white house
keeper declines to look at loaf until it he
what she calls milky" brown tint, she
has been taught to believe, implies defective
| bread, and, besides, it, aspect is not pleasing
This religion is CAREFUL. instiIled into girls
| aud at the present time there is a demand for
nothing but white broad Bakers may have
SC: i,lcas on the sub iect; in their inner con-
iolsness they may recognize the fact that if
| white bread b: used largely its effects may
not i've as h.alteful as those of browner bread
but they pander TO the fashion, and as long as
that fashion supplies them with loaves and
| fishes they are content TO be unscientific and
leave the HYGIENE side of the question alone
as irrelevant and immaterial
An agitation on this subject however, is
taking place, and there is no doubt that in a
short time it Will assume formidable proper
| tiers. Several enthusiasts whose ideas run in
other grooves than those of dollars and cents
have been giving the point very mature CON
sideration Physicians have been consulted |
and their synpsthles enlisted. and move
ment started Mrs h : C. Jones is all en- |
I II Al
has thoroughly studied the question and talks |
with tuency and interest upon it "The pres
ent generation. she said, 'believe as firmly |
as they believe the earth to be round that the |
best flour is the whitest 1t is a deep seated |
prejudice, which has been catered TO for |
years, and il is II harmful and wholly unwar-
rantnd idea
THE DOCTOR GOES ON TO SAY:
apart from the fact that white -four ca
I've so readily aduteratad with alum and other |
P'rulcious substances, its very whiteness is a |
sign that all its wholesome properties have |
been distracted from it, which in itself one |
might almost call authorization, Very white |
Hour is deprived of the gluten of the wheat |
which is what may be compared to the lean |
part Of meat, while only the starch, which |
corresponds with the fat part Of the meat. re-
mains. BY using the fine -four of the entire
wheat, which causes the bread to be brown,
which the sentimental people of the present |
day do not like, all the mineral properties of |
the wheat are retained and bread becomes
wholesome and reliable article of food
In the white bread which the makers of to-
day supply, adulterated with alum in the Ger
man portions Of the city, or with anything
else which will satisfy the eyes and not the
digestive organs of the people, there is an ex-
Cess Of starch, which gives rise to diseases de-
pendent upon fatty degeneration. Majendie,
the celebrated scientist, took two dogs, one of |
winch he fed on white flour, while to the
other he gave -four made of the entire wheat.
In forty days the dog who had received the
white -four died of starvation; the other re-
manned in perfect health, and could have lived
inGeiinitalv with no other food
1t /, possible to walk from San Francisco
to New York with no other food but sound
wheat The health, in the opinion of doctors
familiar with the subject, would be in no wise
innflred and the vigor a. satisfactory as ever.
TINT Leaf. however, would be impossible
with nothing but the white bread SUP,
piled at the present time DR.. Ham
mnni, of this city, on one occasion tried to
forced to give up his attempt An excess of
starch will cause Bright's disease of the kid
ncys and paralysis The reports and statistics
OF the Massachusetts, board of education show
that two thirds of the children under 10 years
OF age in every civilized community are found
with dac7sed teeth
THE BROWN LOAF IS THE BEST.
This Is not tine case with the Indian chill
trar in the Indian territories, and this fact Is
accounted for by the circumstance that the
Indians live upon wheat, which supplies food
for the teeth With the wealthy of the me
tropolis bread does not form a very large con-
stituent of the daily food But with the poorer
people IT Is the sine qua non of existence. and
In many miserable districts nothing else is
eaten The smaller bakers ape the PECULIAR,
ties of their more thriving fraternity They
sec that white bread is the fashion in the up
per part of the city, ant they are determined
not 10 b" outdone They adulterate their
bread IL make it white. while using the en-
tire wheat stead of merely the kernel; their
bread would I've wholesome and health giving,
and its brown color to which people would
become speedily accustomed, would nee. ne
adulteration
"The outside part of the wheat is most pu
tirely discouraged owing to the fact that
bousckc"pers will use nothing but white bread
The very best part of the wheat is utterly r,.
lected, and bread is no longer capable of sus
tanning life alone"
The white -four used in ordinary bread con.
t1inS no sulphur, while the -four made from
the entire wheat has i parts in 900. One
OF the late commissioners of Indian affairs
Hon ~ p -srnitl, I,.Io h. l.. |
haldbaadei Indian, and the physicians account
Ter his hy the fact that the Indians eat wheat.
Halr contains from 6.S to 7.3 per cent of sui
phur, and II food containing no sulphur be
used the HAIR must naturally suffer
Tho impoverished condition of the bread of
today does not como within the Jurisdiction
Of the board Of health for the reason before
stated that the board can only prevent the use
OF aduiterant' resulting i'll Immediately per-
uicious results Harmless aduIt4rants and the
use Of articles from which the nutritive pow
ers havo been robbed, it is powerless 10 touch
! Nrtai do;t21s III this city are prescribing
prNni made Of entire wheat for their patients.
and IN many casas very satisfactory re-
suits have haon reported-New York Star
selection from Thieves slang
Nd~b On 10 bhe ny piping of the dir | :
across the piEei He won't collar himI His
lags Is on to the snap and he's learyl'
This language TO the ordinary reader NAV
seem completely unintelligible bat ii has
meaning and Il very clear one, too It is '
selection from thieves slang, which trans
lated into everyday English, means: 'IooL :
at the detective watching the pickpocket
across the street, He will not catch him, be- +
cause the plckpocket knows he is there md !
VIII make no wrong move
From time immcinorial it has been the Gus
tom Of Confirmed lawhreakers 10 Use a Ian