Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1914-10-01
(cOpyriGht. 1914 b. AS cEay)
THE COLOR OF FOODS


the pumpkin and the carrot. the bril-
liant reds OF the cherry and the straw
berry. the blush Of the peach, the
apple and the pear. II has to do with
the bronzing Of the sllken tassel Of the
corn and the golden hue OF the wheat
lin 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 IL completed
and the product has reached maturity
and is at and wholesome food for man.
kind.
Most Of us have had experience 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, a 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 a 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 vast fund of information awaiting
development concerning the universal
formation and distribution Of The me-
1anins-the pigments-for the subject
of color in the final analysis is but
q 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 q
savage because he is subject to great
er strains, and II 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,
about one thousand and three hundred
boys from seventeen to twenty-one
years OF age have passed through 1t,
and a high percentage (the full years
average may easily approximate 30
per cent?, are found to have the mind
and will Of q 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 IS bushels to the acre
and the next adjoining field only 1S
bushels to the acre; that 100000
school children have valvular heart
disease, and that 100000 or 10000
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; uncomfortable
people are always active. Really, 1t is
the neurasthenic that sets the pace
but uncomfortable people are as rule
unhealthy people. A hungry baby is
always restless and fretful. Con-
versely a we'll nourlshed baby is well
behaved and good natured, and 1t is
the same with youth or adult. In
ueurastheHia, tuberculosis, probably
IN insanity, and In the vast increase
IN the degenerative diseases Of liver,
heart, kidneys nnd arteries, we have
the results Of some form OF starvation
of some part Of our complicated ma
chinery. We lack some element Of
the universal energy to establish our
nutritive balance, and who with full
understanding, so far as science has
penetrated, will say 1t may not be
light energy as condensed in these
atomic forms conveyed to US in the
shape Of the color elements in our
food matter which we SO systematical-
" and persistently eliminate from our
diet by the too exclusive choice Of
starchy food?
Wild creatures are practically ex-
empt from malady and die either from
accident or from mature old age. As q
result Of his superior wisdom we
would expect man to be at least as ex-
empt from disease as the wild AMI
mails. Instead we have the spectacle
of q land filled with hospitals, sani-
4aria and asylums, all taxed to the
limit Of capacity by the thousands
.cIamoring for admittance. seeking re-
lief from the results Of their own
ignorance Of life principles.
Probably not until we come to look
on the profession Of the practise Of
medicine and the manufacture Of food
material as closely allied vacations,
vacations that are not to be consid-
cred as private business. but rather
as social obligations. win It be safe
fo- Us to depend on -the other fell