Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-08-22
NO.. 36
A GOOD BREAD CRUSADE.
An EnSiishman Will Try to Accomplish .
Much Needed Reform.

OF all the crusades recently started
for the reform, improvement, or pro.
pagoton Of this, that, or the other
the very latest is one looking to the
DeSterment of physical mankind
through the correction of dietetic er.
rors Of various sorts into which civil.
ized people have fallen. An English
man named Herbert William Hart is
the high priest and moving spirit OF
this crusade, and although So year.
OF age, he is said to be most con.
vinctng example of the excellence Of
his ideas as applied. Mr.. Hart and
such followers as he has already
gained hold to the belief that the
nervousness, lack Of reserve force,
and general want of robustness
among moderns, especially the classes
living in cities and engaged in seden.
tary occupations are due almost en-
tirely to lack OF proper nourishment.
Even the present labor and business
troubles, they.aver, are due to mental
depression and excitement superin.
duced by want OF wholesome and di.
gestible food.
With the meat we eat and the veg.
etables even, the crusaders have 10
particular quarrel. 1t is the bread
that majority OF the civilized peo.
pie of today put into their stomachs
which Mr.. Hart and his disciples
severely condemn as being innutrit.
ious, provocative OF fermentation and
consequent dyspepsia and other dis.
orders. and altogether harmful ir
various ways. Our bread, made 0,
bolted and reboltcd wheat -four, say
they, contains little else but starch.
and starch does not supply nearly all
the re luirements Of the human sys-
TEN. Wheat, as taken from straw,
contains number of elements elm
mated in the modern milling pro.
cesses which are absolutely necessary
to the restoration Of tissue and the
formation of blood and bone. COnSe-
quently bread should be made from
whole wheat four. e. four manu-
featured by the simple process OF
crushing the wheat g aims. 1t was
upon such -four, says Mr.. Hart, that
the apostles built up the constitu.
tions which enabled them 10 perform
their great work of tevangelization-a
work requiring wonderful physical
energy and endurance as well as great
mental power. 1t was upon whole
wheat fou~, they saw, that th9
Greeks became the most learned. the
most artistic, and the handsumeSt
people the world has known, and
upon 1t the Romans nourished the
warriors and statesmen which made
their capital the mistress Of the
whole known world. Shakespeare,
most industrious and fertile Drained
Of all poets and writers, was wont to
take his own selected grain to LuCy's
mill and have it made into meal from
VIII .ch no element was eliminated,
and the American and African abo-
rigines whose splendid health and
sinewy frames have caused the white
man envy, never ate breadstuif of anV
other kind than that containing the
whole grain until brought into con-
tact with civilization.
Lime iron, and slick are the prop.
critics of wheat alimated in modern
bread making, and they are all Vi.
tally necessary to the human const..
tuition. When Mr.. Hart and his FOL.
lowers have succeeded in bringing the
world to q realization of this fact, and
consequent rational milling and man
ufacture OF breadstuffs, it is safe TO
say that the general health will he
vastly improved, even if all men do
not become marvels of.strength and
intellect, all women paragons o.
beauty and grace, and all doctors and
dentists unnecessary and supernuou:
djuncts of society.