The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-09-15
save the children

Detrimental food which by reason o
their superior strength may not seriousl!
affected the heath of adults, as Is wei
known, frequently acts upon the more
delicate organs of the child to produce
disorder of the most serious character
The amount of laudanum or other poison
that would be harmless TO an adlt viii
cause the death of an infant This grea
difference between the vitality of adults
and children is. too generally overlooked
\ in the preparation of food. Because nc
harm Immediately preceptible comes to
the adult by the use Of an article of food
no thought is given to the effect it may
haye 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 d.
gested 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 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 wholesom and nutrltive than
if levened with yeast or cream Of tartar
and soda. The trouble arises from the
tact 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 ofthe
Royal contain either lime, alum, phosp-
hates, or acid of an injurious character.
Therefore when bread or cake is made
with the use of these cheap baking pow
ders these ingredients (Which are pres
ent through the efforts Of the manufac-
turers to produce cheap article) pass in
TO the food and are taken into the delic-
ate 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 constitu-
tions, growing girls, young children and
nursing mothers are particularly liable
to the evil effects produced by the in
PRODUCTION of the adulterants named as
found in the cheap baking powders,
HEARTBURN and the prevalent forms of in
digestion 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 of 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 obtain
ing pure milk or in haying a prescription
COMPOUNDED from pure drugs and not
from poisons.
The matter is one of the greatest i'm
portance, particularly to the rising gen.
Grafton, and while our conservative law
makers are making up their minds as ts
the proper legislation to stop the sale of
the poisonous compounds mothers will
do well to study it carefully. The house
keeper will experience no inconvenience
in discarding the use of the adulterated
baking powder if she has been using it,
as the Royal Baking Powder uDon the
purity and wholesomeness of which all
the Government chemists agree, is
equally accessible; bur she will need to
exercise close watch upon her packages
from the grocer in order TO prevent the
inferior brands from creeping 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 of the products of those many
in other lines of food
products who, with conscientiousness
and liberality, are serving the public
with pure and wholesome articles of diet