Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-02-18

creases rapidly among Germans and
Irish immigrants and their descend
ants, the two races who most quickly
adopt our habits OF eating. while there
Is little increase among Italian.
Greeks, Bohemlans and others who
continue, in the second generation, to
live largely on their native simple
diet. The average foreigner naturally
thinks that the chief benefit OF high
er wages Is not better schooling but
greater variety OF food, including meat
every day, a thing possible only for
the rich in his own country. Surely
good is not always unmixed with evil!
Apples contain but small amount
of solid matter, chiefly sugar, but
their minerals. being perfectly assimil'
able. and their malic acid being bene-
fetal in piost cases. they are to be
regarded as most valuable food. In
n few peculiar conditions Of the liver
and In excessive acidity they may be
Injurious, but they are especially
beneficial in torpidity OF the liver and
excessive alkaline conditions 1.-THE OPP
posite of acid. The peach differs lit
tie from the apple. but 1t spells easily
while the apple keeps good for
months. There is more or less danger
In spoiled or unripe fruit, and a bad
speck indicates that the entire fruit
is spelling. Boiling OF course coun-
teracts fermentation. but II perfectly
sound an apple is best uncooked. APP
pies are best eaten In the morning,
with other fruits. not with cereals.
vegetables or meat.
Peas, beans and lentils, contain
every element OF food necessary for
vigorous physical and mental life. II
Is no mere coincidence that they are
used, commonly, as a staple IN the
logging camp and have come to be as
ISOLATED with the name OF the Athens
of America. The bean Is especially
rich in potash and phosphorus, two
leading brain foods, besides having
larger percentage OF iron than milk.
l have had an opportunity to watch
the physical and mental effects OF an
exclusive 60-days' diet Of beans. which
clearly proved them most complete
and substantial diet for physical or
mental worker, even though they are
not included in the ideal dietary.
Bean starch is much more easily
digestible than wheat starch and is
far less likely to cause such bowel
troubles as appendicitis. An exclusive
diet of beans, long continued is. how
ever, liable to cause rheumatism and
kidney troubles, owing to the excess
of albumen they contain. Peas and
lentils differ little from beans, the
former being the richest OF this class
OF foods. A few slices Of toast or
acid fruits only in the morning ana
uncooked cabbage, lettuce, cucum'
bers, etc., alternating with prunes,
dates or figs. for the evening meal,
would be an ideal dietary for labor
er eating beans with coarse bread for
the principal meal. at noon.
Bananas are the most nourishing OF
fruits, except raisins and currants.
Properly ripened they are easily d.
gested. But as we ordinarily nnd
them in our northern market they are
difficult of digestion and likely 10
cause constipation. Banana flour Is
superior to superfine wheat flour and
could be produced more cheaply, II
transportation facilities were ade-
auate. The ripened banana, with the
peanut, form a perfect ration, on
which the population of the world
could be fed by the product OF Texas
and the other gulf states and the
tropics. Only a suitable method OF
preserving the banana and an mex
pensive method of transportation be-
ing necessary, to solve the food prob
lem.
Bacon is almost pure fat and Is,
therefore, a good source OF heat,
muscular energy and fat, but 1t Is In
ferior to olive or peanut oil, which are
purer and more easily assimilated.
II should be eaten only in winter, in
cold climates, II at all.
oysters (the edible portion, / mean,
for it is as necessary to clean oysters
as chicken or fish,, are comparatively
nutritious raw, but fried they are In
'digestible. They contain nothing that
cannot be obtained from vegetable
foods. eggs or fish. Often they are
dangerous, causing serious bowel