The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-06-30
PROPER FOOD.
Some Remarkable Facts Presented by
CresweII MacIaughlin.

Some Remarkable Facts Presented by
CresweII mclaughlin.
The vital Importance of proper food
and its relation to sound physical con
stitution, seems to be least understood
among the many schemes of education
that overwhelm us in these days of arti
fetal civilization, trolley cars an6
tramps. So far has this subject beer
neglected that there is not single trea
tise, written within the comprehension
of the average mother, on how to feed
her children properly. The statistics Of
disaster and distress physical, mora
and financial-are terrible to contem-
plate. and yet these statistics point di-
rectly to central cause. For instance,
why is it that twenty-five per cent. OF
all children that are born in this coun.
try die inside of one year :? Why is il
that thirty-three per cent. never reach
the age of five years ? Why is it that
sickness is the prevailing condition and
that perfect health and robust physical
manhood and womanhood is so rare as
to seem remarkable Insanity on the
increase, crime on the increase, pauper-
ism on the increase, divorce on the in
crease. deformity and weakness attack
ing almost every home with horrible
certainty. Why is it that running in step
with this awful destruction, in which
ninety-five and one-half per cent of all
men who enter business fail, that doc
tors are increasing, remedial agencies
multiplying, and medicines becoming
the indispensable horror of every home ?
Why is it that we have in many places
more drug shops than places to buy
food? Men and women topping over
on every hand, with drunkenness and
drug habits dragging at the vitals Of the
American people.
The basic cause of all these catastro-
Plies rests upon the fact that we live
upon unnatural food, and our bodies and
lives are in consequence thereof unnat-
ural. Food is the material out of which
God intended man to rear himself. Nat
urally organized food makes possible
natural conditions, and there is no other
way. Our bodies are built out of mater
ial and we are no better than the food
we eat.
Within the past year great center of
education has been established at Wor-
cester, Mass, where has been founded
Dread Institute for the training of wo-
men in the science of domestic economy.
Governor Voorhees, appointed Miss
Woodward of Elizabeth to this school in
IN, ha Gto+a -
Jersey. This school was inaugurated
by Henry D. Perky, the inven-
tor of the shredding machine by
which is made the shredded whole
wheat biscuit, recognized throughout
the world as the most perfect food ever
prepared for man. Realizing the tre-
mendous truth that wheat in its natur-
ally organized condition contained the
food properties necessary to nourish
every element of the body, Mr.. Perky
invented machine to make bread out
of wheat without losing particle of the
whole berry and without the use of
yeast. The people of Morristown are
aware of the effect that this invention
has had upon the question of proper
food, for there are more of these biscuit
used in Morristown than in any city Of
its size in the State. which is directly
due to the fact that the people are intel
ligent and alert in this the greatest ques-
ton Of modern times. Having a sound
basic or foundation food-in other words
perfect food-you have the assurance
of sound nerves, vigorous intellects,
splendid muscles and sound teeth.
The little child is handicapped from
the start because its mother does not
give it the proper food to build it into a
harmonious body, This is apparent to
every observer on. every street at every
hour of the day. We see poor teeth,
weak and petulant children, over-fat
and over-thin mothers, fathers and off.
spring, want of harmony in the body
and want of harmony in the lives of
the people. The white bread of the per-
iod is unfit to eat 1t is made of disor-
ganized material and is unnatural.
The wheat has been robbed of its inn
portant properties and is simply starch
made into sour dough by fermented
yeast, containing nothing for bone,
brain, muscle or nerve. Disorganized
and unnatural, it is the curse of every
home in which it is used as an article of
diet, producing bodies that crave for
stimulants because they are not nour-
ished. Together with this sour dough
stuff we have potatoes, fat meats, greasy
preparations. and all the poison of pas
try-an unnatural bill-of-fare consisting
mainly of Matchmaking and fattening
substances, with little or nothing for
brain, bone, muscle and nerve. The
child is robbed of its birthright, and the
melancholy future into which it looks
fOracaats nothing hut faiII1ra Sin1nIa
as this subject seems it is the greatest
study of mankind, and the theme
of the age. Those who wish to investi-
gate this subject further may cores
pond with Mrs. Harriet A. Higbee, Su-
perintendent Dread Institute, Worces-