The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-13
TPSALTAN BE WELL
rouKIys,S CURE FOR THE
J"' ms OF MANKIND.

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..or,c nowadays have an idea that
- and women cat too much SAT- iney guy
.s.t salt, as tho average person ue0, ~ 80
W., tho sense Of taste or perVorts u so .na'
IL which has not.a salty haVor is y ~
-. that 1t clos the blood anec1ins al 'ho
e. organs Of tho body; That II wrinKios ana
,.~ohcns tho skin. dulls the eyes causes ing
!OuEu y ,oi, ont. and. in short, brings on about
m tho Ills that human ncsh Is noIr W n"oy
A. not preach the gospel OF taxing foou WIN d
vain OF salt, but without even SO niuoh,
Th,ro's a young woman out IN New"rk VINO
,.,n,t eaten any salt in ten years Sno Is MISS
roma Tomkins. n daughter OF Daniei \. rom
sirs who Il a retired New YORK lawyer n Is
,noyrn in Essex county as tho "orlginal fark
ss.r" Miss Tomkins isn't n crank; nelthor ID
.ho a member Of any club or society whose oo-
a., IA to tell people what to cat or drink or now
NAV shall DO clothed. She Is just quiet ho"o-
,ovinr. housekeeping woman with an unconn-
IN fund of what men call horse sense. Wheh
: srx reporter called the other day 10 ask her
.hout her experience in doing Without sait' sho
answered the door bell herseli.
nWbstl" she exclaimed, throwing up both
,.rd. when she discovered her visitors GRAND,
avou want to interview met Wen, 1 DON'T
krov about that. ] wouldn't mind In tho least,
Int there's my father. I'll ask him, though
and she ran nimbly up tho stairs.
eyes" she said, coming back. he says thai
NAV be interviewed. You want to know why
= think people eat too much salt, or, rather, how
know they do. guess III begin lh;d as d, sh oII ra,ry
ssiinne time aco. YOU know. Well, once upon q
time, fully ten years ago. which Is a very long
t%s when :. InS,I is 0Gfsj tonna that a sS Hfr xss siv Gns
w No end.of trouble. / was a great sufferer
%Tom bay fever, which developed into asthma,
and ! found that the taste OF salt nnEerea In
brought on the attack. and always aggrayauea
~ Complaint. I can't explain how / hated salt
ct such times. The taste OF II w was ost SO 9ro sIr4 thss
inside and yet / was fond OF very salty, 1000.
ffound that II l ate any vegetables cooked with
al that t., they I N m nSIted me feod dls. 30 l maao up my
NM, NM wish YOU could have heard my family when
Insted that all my food should be cooked without
Z grain Of salt, sSlt't tb she , Ts@t 6f I IS Wss IN that state Tgai,
a mind where they ought to take what I said
witt O grain Of salt, and 1t was q very uphill
business =, ,s ! for r. me ae. TO g Rst nf bItss HoS to n esS T they'vs
All been converted to the no-salt idea and we
rarely have any dish In this house with a grain
Of salt in 1t. Certainly nothing that is cooked
in he house is sailed. but I'm getting ahead OF
~HDo you realize" she continued. that IL
would take a person of suiperhuman mentality
ana will to drop the use Of salt suddenly Peo-
pc have no idea how, they are mastered and
dominated by the little white grains. and it's
al because American people have fallen into the
habit Of using salt. not as n condiment, but 30
AZ utterly to destroy the natural, delicate
flavor. Of the food that an all-wise Creator has
IBID you give up salt suddenly and entirelyf'
asked the reporter.
u should az ,. not" she AH s exclaimed i'm 4. with With q 2
soIt rnry rroduol1y and NTH manv n fnp II
was several years before I could admit to my.
self that salted butter and bakers bread did
not agree with me: WoulS you believe 1t,
to supply all that Is needed in the system. At
least, I was forced to realize that 1 could not
eat creamery butter, so / began by washing the
salt out OF It. Dairymen have reduced tfeir
business to such q science or art when 1t comes
to sailing butter. however, that it is simply
impossible to wash the salt out, and. finally I
took to using the sweet butter and began, to
bake my own bread at home without any salt"
What effect did this self-denial, this salt
less food, have on your fealthf' asked the: re-
"Why. from the very minute that I quit eat
ing sailed vegetables my health began to i'm
prove, she replied. "The less salt I used the
there were long intervals between my attacks
OF asthma, and they were much lighter. To
prove how great was the Improvement 1t was so
also gave up the use of salt, and we are. all
much better of for doing so. My father is a
very progressive man In his ideas, and from the
Some people would cali him ultra-progressive,
Tor he is willing to adopt anything conducive to
ESood health and long life. Now, whilo he is over
TOO, In our family of five we haven't had a doctor
IN thirty years except once or twice. and then
ne was called In TO lance an abscess or TO do
so y m ike that, not to treat q case Of
How would you advise q person to go about
eving up the use OF salti What would be the
First, should advise a person who wished to
gut using salt not to resalt his food at tho
table. Don't you know how most people
salads, butter an and ' oSen sweet m MAT RRGGe e nsxt
s.ep would be to have the food prepared with
~ salt, and then sailed butter and bakers
give up salt. All the delicacies must go, such
~ pes and cakes, unless prepared at home
Without thou. salt, and its a deal Of trouble to do all
q ones own baking. Giving up salt reduces
tRe net to simple food. Occasionally my fam
~ from 1d habit, l suppose, will buy a pie or
S msS ib,I Inc bakers and eat it,. meyer touch
near Them going around the house crying the
~, nv, me salt, the salt I can't resist saying to
glad Of i Il! sSr So G and to Any myself: 'G09dy' III
when you know it hurts YOU The less salt
0ue eats the less he Is able to eat"
,,Itr, nat are some OF the i'll effects Of too much
'A " asked the reporter.
c,n sat clogs the blood. makes 1t thin and
css poor circulation. 1t tends to develop or
Snd .skin diseases. such as smallpox. You'll
iect ~ = a ihe poor people, who are most sub
ali ~ sAin diseases, eat n great deal Of salt
SAY porE; salt beef, bakers bread and so on"
the re SoIt boiled egg without SALT" suggested
u reporter with n wry face.
kins ssIImply delicious finished Miss Tom
sait L couldn't relish n boiled egg without
noth;nn solNc time. but now / mon there Is
mt III inner ,lhan n new.lRid egg eaten with
dur nv sui s Ana as for butter, well. You can't en-
witbont, 'eH putteF after YOU We learned to cat IL
Icn,o y SAT-. The sense OF taste becomes so
enjoy f% Tod ,Baying up salt that one can really
count i ~ ior rs natural flavor and not on ac-
~ 0I aor Oh the salt in it. My taste has become
nineruaiIv ana my stomach so sensitive to the
frssL Ihat sometimes suffer from eating
Wba.o nSh caught In salt water or fresh becf
We tne cattle have evidently been sailed.
poult hv,er COOK meats with salt. We haste our
cock roas.,d I'M sweet butter, and as for a wood
Will an Win sweet butter-how good 1t is,'
,,As sud, converted nv fomiIIr, n INV M.
m N Luea' ana the benefit to their health has been
an Jauu, With the giving IN Of solt and tbc no.
dfsnsmehl o. a more natural digeytion' we have
late, III WIN many vegetables hard TO assimi.
bages rmat are ticyt Potatoes, beans. cab
us The eaam my ahd, carrots. 1t Is ali right to
henso lv nS'or OF these things, but the things
has said ~ us lca,yy as lead. Mrs. Rorer
certoir IN her stomach as a pDtatro cooked in a a
any way. This family cpt i up no ana say, IN
Sw Sr ~ a very long while. and II I honnen 70 Re
tell il III" tnuiic ana come back | can always
before, ! toilI1E have eaten potatoes the day
spirits are V ,Io why. they are cross: their
thar ne Ithihiy affected. can tell n family
a w1 ir!e' on them. Oar lnicst| dccIrtnn = LAP
Se"'nsst prepared OatmcnI 1l,', Tag 1Son.