Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-08-03
SOCIETY LADIES
OF Marietta, Heartily Endorse NAT
ural Food.--The Vital Question
Discussed by A. W. Yearsley
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Every mother who was present will
doubtlessly study over the great ne
cessity to Eating What we
eat and the way we eat is one of the
mcst essntial, if not the most essen
! tial facts connected with humanity.
DR.. Bellows, author of Philosophy OF
Eating" says: Eevery living thing
requires nourishment and every living
thing is provided witt food within its
own reach and just suitable to its own
peculiar wants. And every living
thing but man is provided with in
stinctive powers to appropriate to its
use the elements that are needed. And
under ordinary circumstances to reject
| every element that is not needed or is
| hurtful We know that the wild pig
con which flies more miles in day
than any other bird, chooses for his
food the millets and barley, which
contain three times the amount of
PHOSPHORUS or bone and muscle max
ing material than the other grains do.
But the domestic pigeon, which in
comparison is very inactive, is con-
tented with corn and grains contain
ing much less PHOSPHORUS. If we take
our food as lt is made with the ele
ments mixed by nature we need not
use our judgment only in the cooking
of it so as to best develop it's flavor
and make 1t most easy of digestion.
But when man will become so deluded
as to try to improve natures condi-
tions of things by applying his inven-
tions. That is to say that the baking
powders, sodas, yeasts and chemicals
w-.ch are put in our foods today to
make them palatable are only poor
deluded mans inventions and are
bringing into the world creatures
with mental and physical weakness,
feebleness of muscles and which, be-
fore they are very old, turn to dyspep-
tics. For instance, there are two art
icles of food which have been most
perverted by taking out the bone,
muscle and brain building elements
and leaving only the heat and energy
producers for the human being to exist
upon. These are wheat and milk.
AS we all know, in making white COM
mercial flour the wheat is robbed Of
nearly all it's nourishment.
We are creatures of habit and our
systems have wonderful power to
adapt themselves to circumstances
and it is with us whether our struc-
lures are natural as nature intended
them or whether they are structures
of torture. Our health and strength
are impaired just to the extent that
we violate natures ineXorable laws
The truth is that we who laugh at the
silly ostrich poking her head under
the sand and thinking herself safe be-
cause she can see no danger, are after
all but nttle wiser. We blind our
selves to a thousand evils and bear
the consequence rather than take the
trouble to avoid them. If a mother
watches her child, secludes from it the
bread, pies, cakes, preserves baking
powder biscuits, griddle cakes and
and places before it natural
foods, the loving respect of such par
ents. will be demonstrated in the fact
and law that natural foods make pos
sible natural conditions. AS the bird |
instinctively selects the food just |
suited to the need of the time and |
work to be done, SO child who is al |
lowed to grow up with natural tastes, |
who has never tasted sugar, or butter, |
Or white bread or any other elements !
g. food that have been separated from
their natural conditions, whose tastes |
are therefore unperverted and a safe
guide in the selection of food, and it
will instinctively and naturally Cike |
he bird) choose just the food that is
best adapted to his condition at the
ime. AS the body is composed of diff
erent elements and there is constant
waste of these elements, we must Sc
ect such food for each meal as will re-
place all of the waste material
Egyptian bricks can never be made
without straw no more than brains
,an be made to work and bones and
eeth be strong without PHOSPHORUS
,r muscles be hard without nitrogene,
md the bodily heat and activity be
with out carbohydrates.
These are plain laws which should be
applied to the rearing of children and
he cultivation of their minds. One
would not expect hens to be profitable
IN food furnishing no lime for egg
shells, nor one could not EXPECT to
Keep bees on an island on which no
lowers could be found. Why then do
PARENTS expect to develope a strong,
lealthy, we'll built man or woman on
white bread, pies and cakes and such
unnatural food as ! have afore men
ioned. To look at the fact in this
light, nature has put us on this earth
Ind nature has also put on this earth
| food which contains all the elements
necessary to keep in repair The human
Wheat is one of them, but as we use
j. in our bread-the so-called staff of
ife-- we get but small portion of
he wheat and the portion that we do
get Is mostly starch or heat and en-
,rgy producing material.
II you will use the whole wheat you
will not have the worriment of select
ng a proper food. But you'll feel as
have stated, that the One who has
the human body has also
given US food to support it. Shredded
Whole Wheat Biscuit is the only form
n which the wheat is given us in it's
whole state as ! will prove to you.
n the first place, we have in this bis
,uit the whole grain of wheat 1t is
thoroughly cleansed; the wheat is
merely shredded aud cooked to make
t easily digested and utilized Dur
ng the process of cooking the heat at
)ne stage exceeds 500 degrees, which
changes the starch to dextrine and