The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-04-21
Save the children.

Detrimental food which, by reason OF their
superior strength. may not seriously affect
the health OF adults, as Is well known, fire.
4uently acts 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 10 an
adult Will cause the death of an infant. This
great difference between the vitality of
adults and children is too generally over
looked in the preparation of food. Because
no harm Immediately perceptiole 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 aud bread.
and these articles, If light. weet and con-
posed OF materials that are free from Injuri-
Gus substances, are easily digested, nutri-
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 wholesome and nutritive
than If leavened with yeast or cream of tar
tar 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
or acids of an injurious character. Therefore
when bread or cake is made with the use of
these cheap baking powders these ingredients
(which are present through the efforts of the
manufacturers to produce cheaper artieie)
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 constitutions
growing girls, young children and nursing
mothers are particularly liable to the evil
effects produced by the Introduction of the
adulterants named as found in the cheap
baking powders. Heartburn and the preya.
lent forms of indigestion are often solely
traceable to the action of alum on the del
icate coats of the stomach. Professor Will
lard Parker. U. S. Surgeon General Ham,
mond, Professor Alonzo Clark, most eminent
physicians of New York, with scores of 9TH
ers 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 COM
pounded from pure drugs and not from
pOisons.
The matter is one of the greatest impor-
lance, particularly to the rising generation,
and while our conservative lawmakers are
making up their minds as TO the proper
legislation to stop the sale OF the poisonous
compounds, mothers will do we'll TO study it
carefully. Inc nousekeeper Will experience
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 wholesomeness of which
all the Government chemists agree, is equal
ly 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
In what we have felt it our duty to say in
reference to the subject of baking powder
or the products of those many manufsctur-
ers in other lines of food products, who with
conscientionsness and liberality are serving
the public with pure and wholesome articles
of diet