The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-01-31
Substitute Indian Corn

WIN potatoes selling In the retail
markets Of White River Junction at
$3.50 bushel and with prospect of
even still further rise in price the
situation is one apt to cause heads
of families to sit up and take notice
and even to gasp for breath.
AS food potatoes are rot partic-
ularly nutritious, nor are they quick
ly and easily digested and all things
considered IL is strange that they
ever came to be so great factor in
the bill OF fare in the American
household Foods there are by the
dozen that excel Them as a health
conserver and inylgorator and that
can be bought today for less money
One of these is Indian corn meal in
its various forms, and while this to-
day is unusually high in price, it
is yet far cheaper than potatoes at
even 70 cents a bushel II is the
food our ancestors were reared upon
and cur ancestors made New England
and New England made the country,
or at least that portion OF il that has
ever amounted to Hannah Cook The
American Indian, the finest and most
perfect sample of physical manhood
the world has ever known, lived in
1.-THE main upon Indian corn, and by
the way. there is not today an Indian
corn dish from hominy TO succotash
from hasty pudding to pop corn, but
what was original with the American
Indian. Our ancestors had good
teeth from childhood TO old age, while
today 80 percent OF the school children
of New England II years old and up
wards have defective teeth, conse-
quent upon eating disorganized foods.
Not that the potato is a disorganized
food for IL isn't, neither can ii be
adulterated. but II hasn't the muscle
forming. bone building, nerve sus-
, tanning properties of Indian corn
I 4 man is what he eats. That is a
self evident truth and not a mere
theory and assertion. The Almighty
wrote a bill of fare for the lsraelites
as they entered the wilderness, and
should that scourge OF cholera now
rampant in Italy come to this cOun.
, try il would throttle the Yankee. but
IL wouldn't touch the jew. The Jew
helps us to build and sustain our hos
pitfalls for tuberculosis and consump
tive patients but he is never or rare
ly ever n patient therein He does
MT have consumption, for adhering
to the Mosaic law, which has never
been annulled by Divine decree, he
eats mo abominable thing
The Pilgrim and Puritan settler In
New England, and their descendants
for several generations. lived upor
foods natural in their organization
and Indian corn was 70 per cent o
the whole bill of fare. 1t took 10,
years to acclimate wheat in New
England, and even after its culture
became successful, in measure a
least. 1t was not eaten to any grea
extent down to some 60 years ago
Not but what wheat is the most per
feet food in, the world. II contains
all those properties that make sounl
and perfect teeth, but all those proT
critics are removed In the production
. of white -four. and the result is w
are a toothless race, for white nou
is a disorganized food.
Should the price of potatoes soa
to such height as compel people 1
substitute Indian corn meal In thei
place then nothing but good result
would result The public healt
. would be better the store bill lesi
and the dentist would have time {
grow his own crop OF Indian corn.
Therefore don't fret because OF IN
, high price of the spud, but cut II on
OF your home bill OF fare. Feed tn
little ones in particular on India
corn and after ten days look upo
their countenances and see no
! much lairor they are than those {
D the children that eat potatoes. l.,
every mother read the first chapt,
of the book OF Daniel. for therein
4 the greatest lesson in domestic eco
= omy ever given unto mankind.
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