The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1908-01-14
the cause should be

the true remedy; the cause should be
removed. 81 ~
1t has been said that Hwine lis the.
milk of age,' and of unfermeHted winst'
this.is true. The grape contains much
sugar; acid and ,ron, which are dea'
ficient in milk The most noted case
Of prolonged life IN history, that OF
Cornaro, the Venetian nobleman in the
sixteenth century, was due to a uni
form Diet consisting chiefly Of unfer-
mented wine with an egg daily, The
egg supplied the fat, sulphur and al.
sbumen deficient In the light wine,"
or grape juice. Broken down at 40 by,
Indulgence in eating and drinking, Cor:
,naro lived to be more than 100 by sim.
pie living.
s. You can make the best buttermilk
any day in your own kitchen. And
there is nothing better for digestive
disorders, and especially for intestinal
troubles, or as a substitute in infant
feeding, in certain cases.
You can get at the drug store tab
lets containing the Tactic acid bac-
terium culture that will convert sweet
milk into full cream buttermilk by
simply dropping tablet into quart
bottle of milk and maintaining the
proper temperature, according to the
instructions. Not only because this
full cream buttermilk contains the fat
In emulsified form is 1t better than the
buttermilk you buy of the butter
milk man, but because the Tactic acid
bacterium prevents the development
of injurious bacteria in the milk. This
is important in the case of infants.
Cholera infantum, some forms OF
diarrhoea and perhaps typhoid can be
avoided in this way. Here is the most
important practical application of the
germ theory yet made, a boon for in
fant humanity, recovery in some de-
gree Of the loss due to departing from
nature in infant feeding as a result
of departing from nature in other
ways.
1t has long been known that butter.
milk is a valuable food medicine
even when soured by lightning. We
can not always command the thunder,
but science has discovered how to
make buttermilk without churn and
without lightning, and without sepa.
rating the butter. Butterless butter.
milk is good, full-cream buttermilk is
better in most cases.
Cows milk is digested by the infant
with difficulty, often resulting in com.
plete breakdown of the digestive and
nervous system; but the adult diges.
tive system is not so we'll adapted to
the digestion of milk and hence flatu.
lence and absolute revulsion often re.
suit from its continued USE But
buttermilk causes no such difficulties,
because 1t Is in sense largely pre-
digested, the coarser curds of the
casein in cows milk being finely
broken up.
This removes the greatest objection
to cows milk as a diet for infants and
as an ideal monodiet for adults IN
severe stomach and bowel troubles.
A certain amount of fat is necessary
to the best conditions for 4 &ormal
nutrition, and fat is about 21s times
more valuable as a heat and energy
producer than other forms of carbon;
and of the fats, butter Is the most
easily assimilated, except peanut and
olive oil. But emulsitied as the fat is
in milk, it is much more easily assimi
lated than as butter. For this reason
and for others, the new way of making
buttermilk gives much more nutri
tious product and more digestible, es
pecially for the infant.
Cows milk cannot be made identica
with the infants natural food, but i
can be approximated to it. The chic
difficulty to be overcome Is to adap
the large curds that tend to remain IL
the stomach longer than they should
as the development of the calf's stom
ach requires that its food shall hay,
much heavier curd than that re
quired by the infant in which intes
tinal digestion is more important. TIL,
use of buttermilk tablets obviates thi
difficulty, besides overcoming othe
objections to the use of cows milk
But the objection naturally arise
that soured milk is not natural. TIL
reply is that cows milk is not natural
. Certainly tests of buttermilk have
! proved it very satisfactory.