The Daily Missoulian., 1912-09-21

where harmful germs, such as those
OF typhoid, lurk on lettuce and cel-
cry, on radfshes, and on water -cress.
Careful washing, 1t has been shown,
reduces the danger, but the most care
full housekeeper does not wash her
vegetables clean enought to insure
freedom from germs. There Is a.
movement in some places to restrict
the sale Of these vegetables to such
places as can show freedom from
soil pollution.
In its study of food hygiene the In
ternational Congress of Hygiene and
Demography will consider many in
teresting questions. 1t has long been
known by the laboratory expert that
the most nutritious foods are not al
ways the most costly foods. Dr.
Langworthy of the department OF ag-
riculture, will show at the congress
just how far this Is true. He will show
how Boston beans are infinitely cheap
er than Chicago beef, and yet more
nutritious and equally palatable-if
you think so. There are many ways
Of preparing cheese that makes 1t as
palatable as meat. and It has higher
food value than beef that costs one
half more and has twice as much
waste. People who live well do not
, realize what hardships the high cost
Of foods has entailed upon the wage
earners of the low paid trades. An
old Virginia negro bootblack, who has
little stand in front of one of the
nations capital, and right across the
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finds it hard work to get enough
money to eat meat once a week under
the present reign of high prices.
America never yet has come to the
tight pinch where dogs and cats have
had to be used as food, although in
Europe the high prices of meat have
forced the use of dogs for this pur-
pose. In a number of European
cities, including Breslau, Dresden and
Leipzig, dogs are slaughtered ex-
tensively for food and are regularly
inspected at the slaughter house. The
meat is served as roast dog, while in
many parts of Saxony it is eaten raw,
being highly seasoned. In Paris the
annual slaughter of horses, mules and
donkeys, reaches s0,OO0,O00 pounds of
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slaughtered. It is said that the bet
ter cuts of horse meat bring 20 cents
a pound.
The aduleration of sausage has long
been the most dangerous form of food
adulteration practiced. The cheaper
grades of sausage still justify the re-
mark of Jean Paul that only gods can
eat sausages since only they can know
of what sausages are made. Trichinous
pork is still allowed to be made up
into sausage, the only requirement OF
the meat inspection laws being that 1t
first shall be subjected to sufficient
heat to kill the parasites. Certain nj
the artificial sausage colofs, such as
Orange II" are extracted with acidu-
lated water and will dye wool i'm
mersed in it. w.t.
u The greatest food experts in the
world viii attend the international
Congress of Hygiene and Demography
to tell what they have learned as re-
suit of their researches into the mys-
teries of food. Some of them will pre-.
sent studies concerning the methods
and the conditions of nutrition, show
ing exactly how bones grow, how food
, affects the growing child, and what
. the food requirements of babies are
; while others will devote their atten-
tion directly to the question of the
relation of foods to health. For in
stance, it has been shown conclusively
by prolonged experiments, that beri-
beri comes from eating polished rice
and that scurvy frequently follows GER
tain forms OF underfeeding. The diet
is pronounced by many physicians as
the principal cause OF many severe
diseases of the stomach and intestines
. as we'll as of some of the diseases OF
the nervous system and the mind, and
: of the circulation. A paper by a lead.
ing German authority on this subjec,
promises to be one of the most impor-
tant contributions to the congress.
There are those who believe that the
, invisible rays of light will stand be-
tween us and danger from taking dis
ease germs into our fystems. AL
though the human eye cannot see
these rays of light, 1t being as black
as Stygian darkness where no other
, rays than the infra- red and the ultra
violet appear, yet the eye of the cam
era can see them and translate them
for us. Likewise, the disease germ
I can feel them-indeed it can feel them
so much that contact with them is al
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