The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-05-02

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you eat or drink these days." heard
pessimistic acquaintance moaning
over his daily paper. ut almost makes
a man sorry he was not born sooner
before the water all got full of typhoid
germs, and the meat to be so much
frozen cholera, and the milk"
The train stopped at my station, and
had to get out before this unhappy
citizen could say what was the matter
with the milk of our days. But that
last word of his set me thinking about
those thingS-water, meat, and milk.
Why had he pitched on these three as
it they were the principal elements
of human diet? My friend was a good
American, and therefore a water
drinker as compared with the Europe
an. and Il human carnivOre as COM
Dared with men of the Asiatic races.
When one Sits it all down to the last
facts, these three are not the main
essentials of human food taking "hu-
man" in its broadcast sense. The staff
of life-the solid support of manhood
at targets bread; but adult man
hood is a state to which only certain
percentage of the human beings born
into the world ever reach and the
most ticklish part of the interval be-
tween birth and manhoOd-the stage
of early childhood, where death meets
so many-has to be negotiated on milk.
The same reasoning may almost un-
iversally be applied to all forms of
animal life, beginning with the active.
ever-present microbe. including dOmes-
tic animals. and ending with the man
eating lion and tiger, the gigantic ele-
plant and hippopOtamus. and the man.
moth whale. Water is to quench
thirst, but those other two are the
indispensable raw materials for build
ing up the baby's body and then sus-
tanning the mans.
had been weighing against each
Importance of these two-milh and
the former IS, on the whole, far the
more essential to our race. seeing that
a baby cannot eat bread, but IL grown
man never gets quite independent of
milk. Even the man who is so un-
fortunate as to acquire the habit of
drinking his coffee black must use a
certain quantity of butter, which is one
product of milk, and should eat a good
deal of cheese if his health is to re-
main fairly robust. AS Il matter of
fact, of my own experience, | knew
that the men whom we crawling
dyspeptics of the city sidewalks adj
mire and envy as marvels of health
drink prodigiOus quantities of milk in
one way or another. The train of
thought started by my pessimist had
led me to the conclusion that men,
from babyhood to old age are woefully
dependent upon cows. And this con-
clusion again reminded me of the inter-
mittent discussion of the pure-mill1
question which has been awakening
the echoes of the press at such fire.
quent intervals within the last six
months. l called to mind United
States government bulletins, public
statements of high officials, articles in
the papers to which had given little
or no attention at the time, and out of
it all came the question. where does
Leslie's Weekly stand in this discus
sion?
The answer to this question is what
started me on the investigation that
has issued in the present article That
answer was found in the files of Frank
Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper two
generations ago. Frank Leslie him.
self was alive and active in those
days, and here was an article in the
issue for May Sth, 1858, headed !:
Startling Exposure of the milk trade
of New York and Brooklyn"
In his Introductory article he pro-
posed to develop the subject fully. and
stated that he would give pen or pen
Gil illustrations Of every establishment
where distillery milk is manufactured .
the routes of all the distillery milk
carts; the number of every house to
which they supply milk; the location
and the number of the depots which
dispense the milk as pure country
milk; the names of the owners of
the cows; the cows. their diseases.
their suffering from unwholesome food
and their constant confinement, which