The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-21
BY MRS. J. M. DE coTTEs.

phants and monkeys show remarkable discrimination in selecting the nutritive portions of their vegetable foods-ample sustenance for the huge bulk and strength of the one, and the untiring activity Of the other. The worm, low in hfe's scale, swallows all the earth he can as he comes to it, and has an inside apparatus for extracting nutriment from it: but, it is a very coarse. unspecialized life which is thus built up;one so devoid of sensfeility that he is a standing Cor crawlins) simile
 for lack of feeling, wriggling around.
 lively still, when you chop him up. There is one thing I envy him for-he makes
 himself a new head when he loses one.
 That food which comes nearest to con
 taining all the five clements is wheat.
 with nitrates in the outer shell, carbon
 ates in the main portion, phosphates in
 the chit or germ. Wheat was on the
 earth when man appeared. and was his
 earliest food. Blackberries, too, were
 here. and have. according td Ralston. a
 wonderful vitalizing force exceeding even
 what is revealed by chemical analysis.
 their cells being the residence of friendly
 bacteria which build vitality. Next to
 wheat come beans in their content of food principles, and peas. Dr. Michel, of
 this city, is quoted as saying that to
 drink good bean or pea soup is, for a
 nursing mother, to make her breasts a
 fountain of strength for her child.
 l. Nitrates: Meat abounds in nitrogen
 ous principles, but three-fourths of a pound of meat Is water, and that part
 which contains the nitrogen Is not so d.
 gestible as the nitrogen of beans and
 peas, or of eggs-and eggs have three
 fourths more nitrogen to the pound than
 has meat. Added to the indigestibility of
 meat is another objection, the difficulty
 of the assurance of the heaIthfulness of the animal which furnishes the dish, and, if 1t be a hog or bacon, the vague un- certainty of the cleanliness of the ele-
 ments which built up it's flesh now about to be transsubstantiated into our own. Wise was that first promulgator of the laws of Domestic Science. an important part of divine revelation, which would do good taught in Sunday School as faith- fully as the catechism prizes given for proficiency in each--wise indeed was Moses when he interdicted this food, as he was in all those hygienic laws whose observance preserves physical health as obedience to the Decaiogue saves the moral life. The best nitrogenous foods after beans and peas, are fish. Southern corn, vermicelli, lentils and cheese. Bar l ley porridge is fine food for laborers, eaten with milk-it was the food of glad iators in ancient times.
 2. Carbonates--The carbonaceous foods are fats, sugar. butter. cream, rice, rye, | chocolate, buckwheat, Northern corn. white flour, olive oil-fuel foods which. by their combustion, keep up heat and energyi the regular needed quantities
 must be supplied so that the lamp of life | be neither smothered, nor smashed, nor it's | flame flicker out for lack of being fed. l In that the 0arhnnaaQnr9 fonda
 shall perform their functions it is neces- | sary that we inhale an abundance of fresh | air. as combustion can not be carried on without oxygenation of the body. The
 most easily digested of hydrocarbons are
 the vegetable fats, olive oil, cotton seed | oil, and perhaps peanut oil; of animal | fats, take cream and butter. mo pig gra- wy, thank you" It has been said that If
 bread is the staff of life, bread and butter
 is the goldheaded cane." Combustion be- | ing continuous in the living body, if the | fuel of fats is withheld the tissues of tAe body will be themselves consumed, and
 some form of consumption" will finally
 be in evidence to convict us of the guilt
 of indifference, neglect or ignorance-ef | all that ignorance which is sin, ignorance | here is sinfulest, with farthest reaching l results Starch (of rice. flour, potatoes, etc) and sugar are secondary to fats as carbonaceous foods.
 B. Minerals-Vegetables fruits and cer- | calls contain the minerals that supply ma terials for bones and teeth and assist to furnish brain and nerve food. The min | eral salts are most abundant just under | the skin of fruits and vegetables, there fore in pairing. the peeling removed should be thin as possible. Cereals are | rich in minerals, and iron in the blood'' | cOpnec with xuh at
 4. hosphates-Phosphates which build nerve and brain, are found in lean meat, | fish, cheese, whole wheat, oatmeal and Southern corn-the most assimilable form | of phosphates is in cereals and vegeta- bles. Many medicines are advertised to l contain iron and phosphates-but their or ganiZed form as provided by nature Is | best. Eat apples. pears, peaches, straw | berries vand grapes, unstintedly grapes, though not immoderately, take home | made wheat extract, live on whole wheat | bread, and throw physic to the dogs unless your dogs are valuable or unless | they share Josh Billings's contempt and doubtfulness when he asked. What dog
 will take It." I beg to except and to &C., cept Dr. Fowler's cod liver oi1--that's s not medicine, but an animal fat and grape juice.
 s. water-Water is the great eliminator
 of waste, the irrigator of our bodies: we need unfailing renewal of this fluid con tent of the system, for whether We be little isolated islands or broad continents, giving and receiving benefits out of the plentitude of our resources and sympa-
 thies, we need our surrounding water in- formally, three-fourths of our weight be- ing water. Hence perhaps the idle va porings of many speechihers-hence the
 steam some good people "get up when
 they make things go."
 Seriously, 1t is high time that we. who
 are "half the world and mother to the
 other half" should cease to be the vic
 tims of our own and others ignorance of
 the basis of life and its processes. It
 behooves us to substitute incompetence
 of motherhood with competence. and thus
 to remove the cause of more than half
 possibly of all, the swickedness in the
 world. The subject of all subjects is the
 child: the annunication to each mother
 of its birth should stir many questions
 to keep and ponder in her heart'-no
 angel will tell her how he must be fed,
 body, mind and soul-she must be search
 ing to find that out, and work out her
 childs salvation with even more fear
 and trembling than her own. Eli fell
 and broke his neck when he heard of
 +ha draadful death of his sons I've al-