Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-05-12
WHITE BREAD AS A CAUSE OF SOCIAL DE
GENERATION.

WHITE BREAD AS A CAUSE OF SOCIAL DE
GENERATION.
A season or so ago there visited this
country a stalwsrt Englishman, Her.
bert w. Hart, who was interviewed by
a representative of the New York Her.
aid. Mr.. Hart has been for years an
earnest advocate of diet reform, max.
ing Investigations especially into the
bread question.
There is" he says, mo question of
social economies" and, he adds, that
applies particularly to America"
In showing the important relation of
food reform to the health and we'll be.
ing Of all civilized communities, he
quotes from Brillet Savarin, who said,
THE destiny of nations depends on the
manner in which they feed them
selves"
He made the startling announcement
that tho scourge of all civilized coun-
tries is white bread" and went on:
II will go go far as to predict that
unless there is a revolution in the bread
eating custom of this country the phys
ical and mental condition of the people
will get worse and the children that
are brought into the. world will be in
ferior in type, weight and physique, by
reason of the deficiency of lime and
slick in the food, which are absolutely
essential to the normal growth of the
bones, skulls and teeth of the rising
generation.
If people are to be rendered healthy,
first Of all they must eat bread made
from the whole grain of wheat, the
same as eaten by the Apostles, and
which chiefly sustained them in their
arduous work-the only kind that was
capable of sustaining their bodies and
brains in their tasks of impressing the
multitudes Of the truthfulness Of their
righteous cause.
Bread made from the whole wheat
was the kind of bread eaten by the an
cient Romans, Greeks, Gauls and
Britons. Without this kind of bread
the greatest men that have lived before
or since the Christian era could not
have accomplished what they did. The
proper kind of bread should contain all
the properties of the wheat, including
lime, iron and slick, absolutely neces.
sary to make pure, healthy bread, and
for want of which the American people
employ thousands of dentists to supply
imperfect teeth, which would grow to
perfection if nature were not handi-
capped by the ignorance Of the natural
laws Of dietetics.
THE great poet Shakespeare ate the
whole meal bread, for it is put on rec.
ord by himself that he used to take the
wheat grain to Lucy's mill to be ground
for family use, and it would be we'll for
the civilized communities of the world
that all families discard at once and
forever the sophisticated and adulter
ated white, spongy starch, so called
bread Of the present generatson, and
partake of only that kind on which the
great nations of the world chiefly re.
lied for their strength, and which pro-
duced the greatest architects, poets,
artists and generally the strongest and
most handsome men and the most
beautiful and accomplished women"
The chronological Journal.
sT1NGY HUSBAND.
The man who begrudges his hard
working, long suffering wife every dol.
lar that she spends for her own pleas
ure or comfort deserves to be made a
%reproach. Elk Secretary Morton, of the
Department of Agriculture, is reported
by the st. Louis Republic as having
lately expressed himself..freely about
husbands of this class. Their mean
ness is indeed surprising; and so, in a
different way, is the meekness with
which their wives submit to this u.-
worthy behavior. Says Mr.. Morton:
VI happened to be in a store in my
town one day during the war when an
old fellow, whom l will call Jones,
came in with his wife to buy some
goods. Jones had settled in Nebraska
when it was still a territory, and by
economy and thrift he had now got q
farm Of something like n thousand
acres. He was considered wealthy
Shortly after he entered the store Mrs.
Jones took up a piece o fcallico and ad-
mired it very much. AS she looked al
it she said to her husband: