The Glenwood post., 1909-01-09
THE COOP IN HONEY

Recent United States enactments,
termed "Pure Food Laws.' make me
wish to speak out for honey. There il
an almost universal fondness for sweets.
Enormous traffic in syrups, molasses,
honey, candy, candied fruits, sweet
oned pastries and breads, and their ad-
mixture with medicines to disguise
what is bitter or unpleasant, prove it.
Visiting friend whose baby girl al
ways had oat meal for breakfast, I
heard her vociferate every morning:
"Oatmeal, sugar, in it, sugar in it''!
Her mother put honey with the cream,
one morning and told her of it. There
after her slogan was: coat meal,
honey in it, honey in it,!
Honey has great sweetening and
otherwise delectable power. Many
look upon it as luxury, and sugar as
II necessity. At present the. latter is
true enough, but I wish I might do
something to change the former. 1t
is not expensive, needs no dissolviDg,
cooking or manipulation. 1t has diff
fcrent havors according to the variety
of flowers from which the bees have
gathered it but almost all are proverb-
ally pleasing.
Sugar, candy and syrups, as well as
sweetencd medicines, have been much
alulterated. But a jar of honey lab
cled "Pure' is pure. Almost all bee
keepers who raise honey in sufficient
quantities to be able to place it before
the public, are members of National or
State associations, are very Jealous for
the absolute purity of what is upon the
market, and are urged to this by every
ee-llccpers' magazine in the country
Comb honey has never been, and can
not possibly be sophisticated.
No sweet agrees equally well with
the human system. 1t is uncondi
tionally clean, not being taken into the
;imentary tract of the bee, but stored
Instantly in the honey sac, a provision
oe the Creator which, in this case, II
delightful to think about. The e1
uuisitc f;tvors stimulate the secretion
of saliva, so necessary to good diges
ton and assimilation.
The public should know better thar
it does, that sugar is prolific of serious
blood and kidney diseases, particu
larly diabetes. The decay of the teetl
is also largely due to the sugar Of
commerce. This can not be said oi
honey, nature s pure sweet. Used il
moderation, it has only beneficial eff
fccts on the stomache, liver, kidney!
and blood.
Moreover. sugar has an artifciallO
acidulous result on constitutions liabl,
to- acidity of blood and of the product'
of. the mucous membranes, melting Il
catarrh and rheumatism. The natura
chemical, contained in the sting of tn,
bee, is believed to be minutely incor
porated in honey, and to it is due it,
anti rheumatic results as well as it
remarkable preservation in any clim
ate, under ordinary conditions.
What looks prettier, and is more al
luring than a comb of beautifully capp
ed white honey, sterilized and herme
tically secure from the air? 1t sug
gests ideat hot biscuit, or traditiona
bucllwheat cake breakfasts and sup
pers! Have it for one of your table
viands. You don't know what you
have been missing. Call 1t de luxe, II
YOU will, but mothers should know
that some comb extracted honey ought
to be accessible to all the household
,Strnight from the blossoms, it shoult
be used more than it is. Biscuits ana
honey! Cakes and honey! Milk AMI
honey! Butter and honey! Em-m-!