Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-09-29
Save the Children.

adults, as is well known, frequently
act upon the more delicate organs
of the child to produce disorders of
the most serious 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 toe.
generally overlooked in the pre-
paration Of food. Because no harm
Immediately perceptible comes to
the adult by the use of All article of
food, no thought is given to the eff
feet it may have upon the more del
icate 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 substan-
ces, are easily digested nutritious and
wholesome. There is danger to
our children, however, lurking in
their bread and cake which is too
often lost sight of. These articles
are now leaveued largely by baking
powders and when pure and whole
some baking powders are used they
make not only the 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 shewn
by recent scientific tests by the Gov
eminent chemeste and by oeicial
boards of health, that MI these
baking powders, with the single ex-
ception of the Royal, contain either
lime, alum, phosbhates, or acids Of
an FURIOUS character. Therefore
when brerd or cake is made with
the use of these cheap baking pow
dersthese ingredients (Which are
presented through the efforts of the
manufacturers to produce cheap
article pass into the food are taken
into the delicate organs of childhood
where they are the source Of very
much Of the diseases with which
our children afflicted.
Persons who have not strong con-
stitutions, growing girls, young chill
dren and nursing mothers are par
ticularly lialle to the evil effects
produced by the introduction of the
adnIterants named as found in the
cheap baking powders. Heartburn
and the prevalent forms Of in2iges-
ton are often solely traceable to the
action of alum on the delicate coats
Of the stomach Prof. Willard Park
cru. S. ,SWgeon-Eeneral Hammond
Prof. Alonzo Clark, most eminent
physicians of New Y ork with scores
of others, have written and spoken
most earnestly Of the evils arising
from rart.king Of such food. There
should be az much care in the choice
of a baking powder as in obtaining
pure milk or in having a prescrip-
ton compounded from pure drugs
and not from poisons.
The matter is one of the greatest
importance,p particularly to the rising
generation, and while our conserva-
tive law makers are making up their
minds as to the proper legislation to
stop the sale of the poisonous com
pounds, mothers viii do well to
study it carefully. The housekeep-
er will experience no Inconvenience
in discarding The use of the adulter-
ated baking powder. if she has
been using it, as the Royal Baking
Powder upon the purity and whole
someness of which all the Govern
ment chemists agree. is equally ac-
cessible; but she will need to exer-
else a close watch upon her pack
ages from the grocer in order to pre-
vent the inferior brands from creep
ing into her kitchen unawares.
In what we have felt it our duty
to say in reference to the subject OF
baking powder there is no intention
to disparage the work or the pro-
ducts OF those many manufacturers
in other lines of food products who
with conscientiousness and liberality
are serving the public with pure and
wholesome articles of diet.
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