The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-03-25
SERIOUS FACTS ABOUT BREAD
Which Housekeepers Should Earnestly
Consider.

Which Housekeepers Should Earnestly
Consider.
A serious danger menace the health
of the people of this country in the
numerous alum baking powders that
are now being urged upon the public.
There is no question as to the detri-
mental effects of these powders upon the
system. Every Board of Health, every
physician, will tell you of the unwhole-
some qualities they add to the food.
Some countries have absolutely prohib-
tied the sale of bread containing alum.
Even small doses of alum, given to
children, have produced fatal results,
while cases of heartburn, Indigestion,
gripping constipation dyspepsia, and va
rious kindred gastric troubles from irri-
tation of the mucous membrane, caused
by the continuous use of food prepared
with the alum or alum-phosphate pow
ders. are familiar in the practice of
every physician.
1t is not possible that any prudent
housewife, any loving mother, will
knowingly use an article of food that
will injure the health of her household,
or perhaps cause the death of her chill
dren.
How shall the dangerous alum pow
ders be distinguished? And how shall
the danger t 0 health from their use be
avoided?
Generally, alum powders may be
known from the price at which they are
sold, or from the fact that they are &C.
companied by q gift, or are disposed
of under some scheme. The alum pow
der costs but a few cents a pound to
| make, and is often sold at 20 or 25 cents
a pound. If some present is given with
it, the price may be 80, 40 or so cents a
pound.
1t is impossible to name all the alum
powders in the market, but any baking
powder sold at a low price, or advertised
as costing only half as much as cream
of tartar powders, or accompanied by 3
present, or disposed of under any
scheme, is of this class, detrimental to
health. and to be avoided.
But the easy, safe, and certain pro-
lection of our bread, biscuit and cake
from all danger of Embellishments is
in the use of the Royal Baking Powder
only. This powder is mentioned be.
cause of the innumerable reports in its
favor by high medical authorities, by
the u. S. Government, and by the of
fetal chemists and Boards of Health
which leave no doubt as to it's entire
freedom from alum, lime and ammonia,
its absolute purity and wholesomeness.
While it's use is thus a safeguard
against the poisonous alum powders it
is satisfactory at the same time to know
that it makes the whitest, lightest,
sweetest and most delicious food, which
will keep moist and fresh longer, and
that can be eaten with immunity hot
or cold, stale or fresh, and also that
owing to its greater strength it is more
economical than others.
These facts should incline
to turn a deaf a to all opportunities
to buy the inferior powders. If a grocer
urges the sale of the cheap, impure,
alum brands, it should be borne in
mind hat it is because he can make
more profit on them. The wise house
keeper will decline in all cases tx take
them.
Take no chances through using a doubt
fat article sohere so important u matter az
the health or life Of dear ones is at stake.