The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-10-29
save the Children.

%S save the Children.
Detrimental food which, by reasoL of I
their superior strength, may. not serious
ly effect the health Of adults, as is well [
known, frequently 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 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 preparation of food. Because no |
harm Immediately perceptible 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 and
bread and these articles, if light. sweet
and composed of materials that are free
| from injurious substances. are easily di- |
gcsted. nutritious and wholesome, There
is a 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 pow
| ders. and when pure and wholesome
| baking powders are used they make not
only the most palatable food, but one
much more wholesome and nuiritiye
than if leavencd 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 except
ion of the Royal. contain either lime,
alum, phosphate, 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 cheap article
pass into the food and are taken into the
delicate organs of childhood where they
are the source Of very much of the dis
ease with which our children are afflicted.
I Persons who have not strong consti-
tutions, growing girls, young children
and nursing mothers are particularly liza
| bic to the evil effects produced by the
introduction of the adulterants named as
found in the cheap baking powders.
| Heartburn and the prevalent forms of
indigestion are often solely traccable to
the action of alum on the delicate coats
Of the stomache. Prof. Willard Parker,
U. S. Surgeon General Hammond Prof.
Alonzo Clark, most eminent physicians
Of New York, with score 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 a baking powder rs in OBJ
tanning pure milk or having a prcscript-
ion compounded from pure drugs and not
frcm poisons.
The matter is one of the greatest inn
portance, particularly to the rising gem
eration, and while our conservative law
makers are making up their minds as to
the proper legislation to stop the sale of
do well to study il carefully. The house
keeper will experience no Inconvenience
in discarding the use of the aduiteratcd
baking powder, if she has been using it.
as the Royal Baking Powder upon tho
purity and wholesomeness of which all
the Government chemists agree, is equally
accessible hut 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 pow
der there is no intention to disparage the
work of the products of those many man
ufactures in other lines of food products
who, with conscicntiousness and liber
atty are serving the public with pure
and wholesome articles of diet.
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