Omaha daily bee., 1912-05-12

that the great duty they owe to them
selves is to keep WE'LL and, while the
matter of keeping well is dependent
MTiSfM upon our general mode Of life, We
UftEtSU know that habitual eating Of
pure food product has great deal to
do with our health and strength as a nation.
All older nations. to certain extent have some
special national food. This, for instance. is par
ticularly true of the Japanese-ther national dish
is rice. The Englishman eats beef; the SWISS one
of the hardest of nations, eats cheese and drinks
buttermilk the Italian, who is the greatest human
working machine on earth. eats macaroni
America is a new country, and 1t is, We think,
the greatest 1t has been said that one of the
things that has been for the making Of this coun-
try is the fact that we have been able and wise
enough to profit by the experience of nations older
than u.s. For instance. We have taken our law
from militant Rome, our art from classic Greece,
our science, industries and literature from modern
Europe. and have made composite of all these,
which We find in the cultured and energetic Amer
Jean However, 1t seems that we are Just now In
the process of choosing great national food
product. and 1t is macaroni.
Originally Italian Food
Macaroni, in It's various forms, was originally
an Italian product. 1t was the great staple food
of the Italians long before Italy, through Rome,
ruled all other nations of the globe. and its con-
tinued use among Italians remains with US today
as proof of its great and genuine worth.
The fact that the Italians still regard macaroni
the best food they eat-considering all sides
of the food problems proof that this product
must be a very excellent dish for any nation. So
the people Of America coming to accept this
food as the best individual dish that can be set
before them. They consider its taste, Its health
qualities and its strength-bullding virtues-and
they agree that 1t is the food they should So
today have physicians and pure food experts
recommending msearoni for use in all homes; and
so, too, We find 1t being served In greater num-
Der of homes every month. II is really becoming
the great American food product, and so it is ex-
pected that the demand for 1t will be great
that the factories of this country will be forced to
increase their output capacity in order to supply
the great demand
All Formerly Imported
The use of macaroni in this country was orig
inaly confined to our Italian population and to
Americans who formed the habit by extensive trav
cling in Italy. Until a comparatively few years
ago the product that consumed by Americans
was either imported manufactured by Italians
in this country. However, in the last few years
enterprising Americans have foreseen the great
possibilities in the development of macaroni as a
staple American product, and have gone into its
manufacture extensively. Several conditions make
the manufacture of macaroni desirable from busi-
ness point of view. First, we find that We have
in this country a special macaroni wheat, known
as durum wheat, raised in the northwest. which is
the greatest and most nutritious wheat in the
world, containing large percentage of gluten;
second, We find great demand by Americans for
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absolutely sanitary conditions. They are not as
sured Of this in the imported French or Italian
article; in fact it has been demonstrated that
der American management a much better grade of
goods is produced than under the best foreign con-
ditions.
Not many years ago there was in this country
large class of people who '1fved to eat" But we
find under the education which we are receiving
from the pure food commissioners, and the medical
profession in general, our health depends on the
food that We take into our bodies more than any
other one thing We are, therefore, rapidly be-
coming a nation that "eats to live" In other
words It is better to maintain the original healthy
body with which practically all Of us have been
blessed, than try to make it over again in our
later years. Every man, woman and child should
eat. as a basis for nutrition, a good pure food, a
food that will produce health, and this essential is
found in the highest degree and in the most d.
gestible form in macaroni products. 1t is very
interesting fact that two very simple and econom-
zeal foods contain all the necessary ingredients to
sustain life-these are milk and gluten. Maca-
roni is largely composed Of gluten.
Sales Increased Immensely
People who have never stopped to think about
the consumption Of maearoni would be surprised
at the figures on the sale Of this food all over the
United States, How it has grown from small sales
of few years ago to the giant sales Of today is a
very interesting story, and one that would make
the foundation for an interesting little book Peo-
pie, until few years ago. thought macaroni was
food that was to be eaten only infrequently; they
did not then regard it as of the most nourish-
ing and most strength-building Of the foods and
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