Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-02-15
SUBSTITUTE INDIAN CORN.
(From the Landmark)

| with potatoes selling in the Retail
markets of White River Junction at 81 70
a bushel and with prospect of even a stilt
urthnr rise in price the situation is one
art to cause heads Ct families To sit I'm
ana take notice and even to easn for
breath.
AS a food potatoes are not nartiou,ar,v
nutritious, nor are they quickly and
eusi'y digested, and all things considered
- strange that they ever came To he
10 great actor In the bnl OF fare in
."e A'heTican household. Foods there aro
II! the dozen mat excel them as q hea,th
coHseFNer anu inVlsorator and that 90,
DC oousht to-daT for less monev O,a
u 'hesc Is I"dian corr meal IN Its v.,,-
Gus FORMS ana while this TO-DAY {. -.
SuaID " D'ice. 1t L. Vet far chez o.r
:" rho ne rood -. " YER -. ats .-a Il
mon and our ancestors ,nsrs- New Eng
land and New England made the coun-
try or at least that portion Of It 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 the man
upon Indian corn. and by the way, then
is not to-day an Indian corn dish from
10 pop corn but what was original with
the American Indian. Our ancestors had
good teeth from childhood to old age.
while lo-day 90 per cent. OF the school
1ildren Of New England IA years old
I'D upwards have defective teeth. COZ
sequent upon eating disorganized foods.
Not that the potato is a disorganiz I'd food
for it isn't, neither can 1t be adulterated.
but t hasn't the muscle forming. bore
building, nerve sustaining properties OF
Indian corn.
a man is what he eats. That Is sell
4vident truth and not mere theory and
assertion. The Almighty wrote bill OF
faro for the 1sraelites as they entered
the wilderness. and should that scourgt
of cholera now rampant in Italy come to
this country it would throttle the Yankee
but it wouldn't touch tho jew The Jew
helps us to build and sustain our hospitals
for tuberculosis and consumptive patiena
but ne Is never, or rarely ever, patient
therein. He doesn't haze consumption.
for adherinG to the Mosaic law. which
! law has never teen annlled by divine
decree. he eats no abominable thing"
| The Pilgrim ana Puritan Sc tier in New
| England. and their descendants for sew.
eral generations, lived upon fotds naturL
T., thcir organization and Indian corn was
IN mel, cent. of the whole bill OF fire. II
oo,s 100 wears to acclimate wheat l New
england and even after its cultue be-
carne successful, in measure at ieat. il
was not eaten to any great extent avn
IN soma 80 years ago. Not but Nat
ubeat Is the most perfect food In ne
world Il contains all those properts
that make sound and perfect teeth D
all those properties are removed In u
production of white flour, and the result
Is we are a toothess race. for white nouf
Is a dsorganized food.
Should the price OF potatoes soar &c
such height as compel people TO suos'i'
tute Indian corn meal in their place ther
nothing but good would result. Ine pup
lie health would be better the store OH
less. and the dentist would nave tims 70
grow his own crop of Indian corn
Therefore don't fret because Of the n'sH
) ,,rice of the spud but cut II out OK VOW
home bin Of fare. Feed the little ones Nv
particuiar on Indian corn and atter 'ol
d.r. ,ook upon their countenances anf
see how much fairer they are than tnos'
~ the children that eat potatoes ~
evorv mother read the first chapter OF III
} book OF Daniel for therein Is the srea'eS
lesson in domestic economy ever give'
unto mankind.