The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-10-12


Board Of Health. written expressly for
the Palladium
Not a few of our laws are resultants
of our complex civilization. which GER
tainly tends toward higher complexity.
Among such laws are those which have
for their object the protection Of the
public health, and the protection of the
food supply against adulteration. With
in the memory of living man, such
thing as food adulteration was I'M
known. In pioneer days. feeding was
simple and more rational than in these
times. Then. families sat down to
tables which were supplied with pork
and beans of home production. to corn
bread. apple sauce, chickens raised
naturally in woods and fields to milk
and butter produced from non-tubercu-
lous, non-swill fed cows, which stood
almost at the kitchen door. doughnuts,
hot from the sizzling lard: pumpkin
pies made from pumpkin which had
been confined for months: hominy
made in the very room in which it was
eaten, instead of being taken from a
can filled in a frame shed somewhere
and called a canning factory. And
what delicious flavors were attendant
upon all of these articles With what
joy did they salute the gustatory
nerve. and how gratefully they We're
received by the stomach.
But these days are not necessarily
gone, for even now it is not necessary
to live the canned life. The city cliff
dweller finds the canned life handy
and convenient, and lives it at the cost
of the good health and superior en-
joyment which attend simple and more
natural nutrition. If he would supply
himself with a "fireless-cooker." and
start his plain breakfast in it. he would
in the morning have food which would
give him superior gustatory pleasure.
clear head and abundant energy. In
stead of simple rational breakfast.
our cliff dweller has embalmed hog.
better known as ham and bacon. or
highly spiced sausage, or beefsteak
from a tuberculosis animal or from
an animal slaughtered and it's meat
kept under the most revolving condi-
tions. Eggs. most always from cold
storage. are added, and all is washe,l
down with black coffee. Such a
breakfast is not balanced ration 1t
makes too much SCOT and ash and So
clogs the furnace CRATES and the boil
er's flues. Clearness of head does not
! attend. and kidneys and liver suffer
from over work in clearing away the
debris. In time, Bright's disease ap'
pears, and the victim wonders where
/ it came from Why was l selected
to have this malady:" he asks. Eat
plain, unembalmed foods. cooking them
| we'll. Potatoes, rice, hominy, vegeta-
bles, fruit, cornmeal, well baked, whole
wheat flour bread, milk from healthy
| animals and clean dairy. fresh eggs
or none. What more can one want
Darwin. Spencer, Pasteur lived entire.
ly upon such food, and they did some
good work. too. A gentleman OF my
acquaintance was one time guest OF
Darwins on his farm in Kent. For
supper bread and milk was offered
nothing more. and no apology. Oar
wins work was certainly worth a mil
lion times more to humanity than the
work of Hartman. Rich. highly spic-
ed foods. pickles. fancy cooking. much
meat are all hard on kidneys and liv-
ers.
Excessive use OF salt is injurious
The blood and the body need only a
very little salt. A body weighing 10
pounds contains only little over one
ounce We all eat a great deal more
salt than is for our good. Certain
forms of stomach troubles are caused
by excessive salt eating. If your stom-
ach hurts, try cutting out salt. salads.
pickles, meats. and chew your plain
foods extra we'll. You will find this
treatment has the pepsin and drug
treatment skinned a mile. Well. the
whole lesson is-pure food laws are
needed principally because we will not
eat nationally. Ii is the same with
health laws. We need health laws be
cause we refuse to live according to
the natural laws OF our well-being. We
have consumption. because We spit, be-
cause We Just will not thoroughly ven
tilate our school-roons, our bedrooms.
our offices. our churches and our pub
lie halls. We ride in closed trolley
cars and breathe the fetid air which
has already been down into the lungs
of others. we heaye in alcohol and
meats and spices. and fray our nerves
with caf:ein- Ole Solomon said: BE
We not among wine bibbers. among RI
otous eaters OF flesh
We have typhoid fever. and spend
enough on II annually to present every
member Of the legislature and each