The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-07-13
CECIL RHODES WILL
Provides For Proper Food For Stu
dents

Cecil Rhodes, in his late will, left a
bequest of $4,000 for the Improvement
OF the high table for resident fellows
and tutors at Oriel college. Oxford.
Il am rejOiced to find that one mil
liOnaire has at last given some thought
TO the question of dietetics in educa-
! tional institutions" SAYS Elizabeth
Cady Stanton in the New York Jour-
nal.
Zone of the crying evils in our
schools, colleges and universities is the
bad system employed in feeding grow
ing boys and girls.
students, above all other classes.
need plenty of good. welI-eooked food
and happy state of mind in anticipa-
ton of their various meals.
Dyspepsia is one of the common
diseases among the literary classes,
and the foundation for this prevalent
ailment is laid in our colleges and sem
inaries- OF what avail is a knowledge
of art, science. philosophy and govern
ment when health is seriously under
mined?"
All this comes from ignorance as to
the kind of food element the body must
have to supply the daily loss from
brain work. Bacon meat, potatoes
white bread and coffee absolutely will
not keep a hard brain worker well. A
food expert perfected a perfect food for
brain workers
Not only in the schools but in the
home should the food be looked after.
The necessity of selecting food to sup
ply proper nutrition to replace the daily
waste of tissue of brain and nerves is
of the greatest Importance.
Grape Nuts is the ideal food for
young and old who use the brain ac-
lively: the diastase Of the grains being
perfectly developed and the starch
transformed into grape sugar in the
most perfect manner.
In this condition, Grape-Nuts is
ready TO be quickly absorbed into the
blood and tissue without taxing the
intestinal digestive machinery. The
phosphate of potash found in the
cereals is retained. and this with albu-
men. supplies the elements required to
build gray matter in brain and nerve
centers.
DR.. Max Groszman of New York City
recently called the attention of the
board of education to the fact that
pupils of the defective class are apt
to be weak physically. Temporary
alterations are often mistaken for real
defects. when they are only symptoms
of physical growth. of indigestion or
other maladieS. Indigestion has been
responsible for more than one falsee
hood. and its cure has often been fol-
lowed by a return to truthfulness.
In its predigested form. the daily use
of Grape Nuts. for the cereal part of
the meal. aids digestion, nourishes the
body. tones up the nervous system and
quickens the mental faculties.
Coffee should also be banished. for il
unnaturalIy stimulates the brain and
nerves so that proper nutrition is in
terfered with and they cannot get suf-
ficfsnt rest to take the food needed for
the work they must do from day TO
day. For the morning beverage. Pos
tum Food Coffee should be used in
place of coffee.
Let the daily breakfast, particularly
at this time of the year. consist of
Grape-Nuts and cream. little fruit, a
cup of Postum Food Coffee, some whole
wheat bread and possibly one or two
sOft-boiled eggs. 1t is impossible to
make one believe what a wonderful
charge in health. strength. comfort
and ability comes in ten days after |
quitting wrong food and living on sci |
entificaiiy selected food.