Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-09-02
COFFEE HEALTHFULNESS.
Sovereign Remedy for the Nervous
em-Its Use ind Abuse.


Magazn Joseph NJ. Walsh. the author
of Coffee, It's History and Classified
ton" has written the following:
When the physician to Noltaire, the
famous French author. remarked that
coffee was n slow pois5n." Voltaire re-
piled:
Yves, I know 1t is n very slow one. 1t
has been poisoning me for over seventy
years and am not dead yet"
To the question. "Is coffee harmful"
the answer liz. under proper conditions.
emphatically no." Coffte has been In the
arena for three hundred years. During
It's first century. botantsts were busy dis
GUESSING the origin and classification OF
the plant. any two Of them rarely agree-
ing, owing to tho fact that different
botanists made their Investigations un-
der different conditions.
Next came the chemists and the doc
tors. who are even now continuing the
discussion, each arguing from his point
of view and each naturally assuming
thnt this is the only correct one.
In answer to the oft-repeated question.
us coffee ever injurious?" there is no
disproving the question but that II can
he made Injurious n we desire to achieve
that result by using inferior coffee or by
improperly preparing II for use. Properly
made. even If used in large quantities,
coffee is not only harmless. but. on the
contrary, is healthful and beneficial in
it's effects.
Again. the better the grades of coffee,
though price does not always indicate
quality. the less harmful or injurious to
health II is II It he harmful at all. which
has never been satisfactory proven.
Again, in using poor or inferior coffee.
one has to use n larger quantity to the
cup. and even to boil It in order to get
anything like coffee Gut Of It. the re-
suit being that you get less of the slim
ulatng and more of the injurious prop
erty. tannin or fannie acid out Of It.
In this later property. II Is claimed. lies
all the difficulty with coffee. 1t is sal"
to injure the coating Of the stomach and
cause disorders which bring in their
train Indigestion and nervousness.
MAKES THE BRAIN MORE ACTIVE.
Its physiological effects upon the human
system Is such that while Il makes the
brain more active. il soothes the body
generally, rotards the change and waste
OF tissue. making the demand for food
considerably less.
There is still another effect of coffee,
that Of checking the too rapid consump-
uon OF nitrosenous matter IN the system
Wihch. while not nutritious IN ITSELF YET
possesses another nutritlNe value. this
result added to It's stimulating charac-
ter having made 1t the chosen beverage
Tor breakfast. II forming also mental
stimulus of high order If we are not
10 use any form OF stmulant Whatever
there Will not be much left to subsist on
as any food or drink that arrests waste
or builds up the system, is a stimulant.
Even water itself. under certain condl'
tons, Is stimulant. so that all stlm-
ulants are not intoxicating or injurious.
II good coffee he secured and properly
prepared for use. tho average person may
drink from i've to Sin cups per day with
out experiencing any disagreeable effects.
To oVerhol coffee Is to extract and de-
velop the fannie principle, to which
coffee owes Its astringent properties.
which is Just as great an error as Is the
boiling of tea.
NO corresponding IL results or nervous
arrangements are ever observed after
the effects OF coffee have disappeared,
as are noticed in many other stimulants
the action given to the rervous system
by coffee beng natural and healing in
the extreme. AS proof OF this it has been
shown that habitual coffee drinkers gen
orally enjoy good health and spirits,
Some of the longest lived people have
used coffee continuously from their earli-
est infancy without experiencing any per-
mancnt depressing reaction or other III
effects such as arc invariably produced
by the use OF alcoholic and other slim
Ulants. on the contrary. il is an unmiX