St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-04
lie milk will give the proper tenn

the milk will give the proper tenn
perature at first. Later on il is not
hard to fix the proper amount of heat
| merely by watching the rising vapor
or by tasting the milk. When so
heated it is presumed by science
that all disease germs are destroyed.
OF course L know that some people
contend that there is a peculiar in
tangible life essence in the milk of
a living animal, and that heat de-
stroys -" quality, rendering ster-
ilized mix Of impaired value as
food. But practical, everyday eX-
perience teaches that the majority
Of children grow fat and healthy on
steriliZed milk, and that the intro
duction of this variety of food has
notably diminished diseases among
the very young
DR.. Park Richie believed that the
water supply was more important
than a choice of food. He added:
''The most dangerous organisms that
| are to be found in drinking water
frequently do not impair, in the
slightest degree, it's color or it's taste.
Well water, for instance, impregnat-
ed with the germs of typhoid fever
or other diseases, is often sweet to
| the taste and sparkling to the eye.
The water that has been furnished
! of late up on the hill has had a
most shocking appearance and taste.
l believe that down town, where the
! there has been no such trouble. Yet
1 wouldn't be afraid to drink the dis
colored water that we have been
| getting. I do not think it has any
| Of the animal germs which alone
/ cause serious illness. The minute
vegetable particles in it are not like
| ly to poison any one in this latitude,
although farther south they are re-
| garded as the prime cause of malaria.
LAS to food, I'm afraid that l
can't make any suggestions. The
subject is so complicated and so
! uncertain. Certainly l wouldn't adj
wise feeding young babe on roast
beef and jelly cake, but not a few
mothers are unable to see the slight
est harm in such a diet. 1t is so diff
cult to lay down any general rule
that isn't subject to a million eX-
ceptions. Every man is a law unto
himself, although it doesn't by any
means follow that a man should
eat everything he most relishes, re-
CARELESS of whether it agrees with
him. Experience and common sense
alone can decide whether any GER
tain article of food is good for us
at any certain season. Take, for in
stance, the numerous prepared or
commercial baby foods. Some moth
ers will claim wonders for one of
these foods, while another woman
will insist that that particular food
is little less than poison. Now, there
are really a number of good pre-
pared foods In theory, each one
should agree with every baby. In
practice, each one doesn't. Why
this is so, no man knows. Only by
experimenting can the proper food
be found"
DR.. L. M. Benepe had no quarrel
| to qick with the genus landlady,
| but he was quite sure that more di-.
gestive troubles are found during the
summer season among boarders in
| the large boarding houses than
among people who keep house.
''The latter" said he, are bet
| ter able to watch the food that is
cooked in their homes. But in a
boarding house, where large guam
| tity of food is prepared for each
meal, much of it is left for some
| time exposed to the air and flies.