Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-10-02
Copyright. 1914. by A. S. Cray
THE COLOR. OF FOODS.

| liant reds Of the cherry and the straw
berry, the blush of the peach, the
apple and the pear. 1t has TO do with
the bronzing of the silken tassel of the
corn and the golden hue of the wheat
in short, with the general riot of
| color running all through the vegetable
kingdom and touching berries, fruit,
vegetable and cereal, which is a GER
tain indication whereby nature gives
notice that the process is completed
and the product has reached maturity
and is fit and wholesome food for man
kind.
Most OF us have had expelien IN
our younger days along the lines of
Johnny Jones and his sister Sue and
the peach of emerald hue" and know
that until certain shades of color have
been acquired indulgence in fruit is
| quite certain to be followed by rebel
| lion and great distress in our internal
improvements located round and
about our equatorial region, condi-
ton comprehensively covered by the
expressive, old time term, bellyache,
and for the relief of which there is
no better, quicker nor safer remedy
than generous dose of good old fash
| Toned castor oil.
This ripening process is due to the
absorption of a definite amount Of
solar energy and elemental matter
which is tied up in vastly complicated
molecules and which, being torn apart
under the action of our digestive or
gans, supplies us with food-the en-
ergy and material necessary to both
drive and repair our machines. There
is a vast fund of information awaiting
development concerning the universal
formation and distribution of the me-
lanins-the pigments-for the subject
of color in the final analysis Is but
a part of those fundamental physical
laws that govern the rise and fall of
nations, the origin of wealth and pow
erty and the general physical welfare
of the species. We ignore 1t at our
peril
Civilized man requires more build
ing material and more energy than a
savage because he is subject to great
er strains, and If he does not receive
the amount required to develop and
expand then he must inevitably de-
teriorate. In the Is days since the
! Chicago child's court and psyche
pathic laboratory began operations,
| I'D nd
boys from seventeen to twenty-one
years of age have passed through it,
and high percentage (the full years
average may easily approximate 80
per cent?, are found to have the mind
and will Of boy of ten years of age.
Why? For the same reason that some
wheat and other cereal crops will not
head up and mature; that one field
will produce As bushels to the acre
and the next adjoining field only 10
bushels to the acre; that 100000
school children have valvular heart
disease, and that 100000 or 20,000,-
900 children enrolled in the schools
have bad teeth-something is lacking
IN their food. -.
We are known throughout the world
as an active people; uncomfortabl BILE
people are always active. Really, it is
the neurasthenic that sets the pace
but uncomfortable people are as a rule
unhealthy people. A hungry baby is
always restless and fretful. Con
versely a we'll nourished baby Is well
behaved and good natured, and 1t is
the same with youth or adult. In
neurasthenia, tuberculosis, probably
in insanity, and in the vast increase
in the degenerative diseases of liver
heart, kidneys and arteries, we have
the results of some form Of starvation
of some part of our complicated ma
chinery. We lack some element o.
the universal energy to establish oul
nutritive balance, and who with full
understanding, so far as science hal
penetrated, will say it may not BIZ
atomic forms conveyed to us in the
shape of the color elements in oul
food matter which we so systematical
ly and persistently eliminate from ou
diet by the too exclusive choice o
starchy food?
Wild creatures are practically ex
empt from malady and die either from
accident or from mature old age. AS
result of his superior wisdom W,
would expect man to be at least as OK
empt from disease as the wild ami
mails. Instead we have the spectacle
of a land filled with hospitals, SAM
taria and asylums, all taxed to tn
limit of capacity by the thousand
clamoring for admittance, seeking re
lief from the results of their owl
ignorance of life principles
Probably not until we come to loo
on the profession of the practise O
medicine and the manufacture of foo
material as closely allied vocations
vacations that are not to be consic
cred as private business, but rathe
as social obligations, will it be SAT
for us to depend on the other fe