The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-05-30

# the soldiers of all the principal ma
tons, the makeup of which, as is well
lnown, Is scientifically proportional to
iupply the necessary amount of muscu-
ar energy, heat and vitality of the sol
der Prof. Mosso, an Italian investiga-
or. as early as 1898 called attention to
ne influence of cane sugar in lessening
fatigue. Last year the Prussian Govern
,nent TOOK up the question and made thor
ough and complete experiments with the
eTeograph, an instrument which measur-
ed the amount of work done by the per-
sons under test. The subject of each ex-
pertinent was entirely ignorant of it's ma
ure, and the instrument which registered
lne amount or work performed was hid
uei from view, so that Imagination could
not aHect the results. In addition to his
Ordinary diet he was given about six
ounces OF a sweet fluid. On certain days
thls was solution of sugar, and on 9TH
er days was only water sweeGened with
dulcln, sweet tasting chemical having
no 1000 value. When only ordinary mus
GUAR work was performed the effect of
the sugar in the diet was not very mark
ed, but when exhausting work was re-
CURED of the subject of the experiment
the "difference in the effect of dulcin and
sugar became very apparent, the latter
restoring to some extent the efficiency of
the tired muscle, while dulcin did not >"
rms is believed to be due to the fact that
with ordinary exertion a little more or
less sugar in the blood does not make
any special difference but when the mus
cies are heavily drawn upon the rapid
advantage.
Continuing these successful experiments
the German army officials put them to
practical test during their late maneu-
Vers, the observations extending over
thlrty-eight days. A number of men
were given ten Jumps, about one-sixth of
| a pound, of sugar daily, and were COM
pared In various ways with the men per-
forming the same amount of work in
| marching and drilling, but whose food
contained little or no sugar. The sugar
was relished during the whole time, and
proved OF decided advantage to the men
using 1t. On long marches it appeased
hunger and mitigated thirst; a feeling of
refreshment followed, which helped the
tired man on his way, and none of the
solaiers allowed sugar We're at any time
overcome by exhaustion. Both their
pulse rate and breathing was less affected
by exertion than was the case with men
having no sugar.
The Swiss guides, it is asserted. fully
liant, and always carry it in their kits
preferring lump sugar or highly sweeten-
ed chocolate. The muscular lumbermen
OF canada consume an extraordinarily
large amount of sugar during the season
IN the woods, taking it in the form of mo-
lasses. They SWeeten their milkless tea
with 1t; make cakes with it, and even add
it to their fried salt pork, which is the
only meat they get during the time they
are In the woods cutting lumber and
this is practically half the year In the
pldch Delt Oh Alabama the staple r
ucles of diet are also molasses salt pork
and corn meal. These simple articles
form the diet day in and day out. wear
about, and yet the negroes appear to
thrive on them. But it is on the sugar
cane plantations, perhaps, where the val
ue OF sugar as an article of diet is most
apparent. pamphlet entitled Sugar as
Food recently issued by the Depart
ment or Agriculture, referring to this
TACT. says: For months the chief food
or the negro laborerS on the plantations
Is SAID TO be sugar cane, and they are seen
to grow strong and fat as the season ad-
Vances. They go through the hard labor
OF harvesting the crop and come out in
line condition, although they began it
weak and half starved"
1t should be added however, that the
entire juice of rpened cane is more COM
plete food than sugar, containing, as if
does, other food constituents besides car
bohydrates.
Children have a natural craving for
sweet things, and the sugar of milk
which makes up from 4 to s per cent of it.
forms an important part of baby's first
nuEiment taking the place of starch un-
late it; so that a two .year-oId child
thinking two quarts Of milk day, con-
Sumes in this way about three ounces of
'ugar. Owing to its ease of digestion
md the fact that it supplies heat and
mercy to the body, sugar would seem to
natural food for children and is far
iore acceptable to most children than
ct, which usually supplies heat and en-
rgy to adults. The question whether the
Use OF too much sugar by children does
OF pervert their tastes from less hieh'v