The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-06-06

lunch a piece of sausage and sog'
lgy biscuit?
If the school lunch could be pre-
ipared at the school building and
Iserved while fresh it would be far
imore desirable. And this must in
Ievitably come to exist before the
ideal of what a perfect school is
iactually to be.
| Great educators are convincing
us from day to day of certain prin-
!ciples, but the food chemists are,
without a doubt, convincing US OF
the most fundamental principle con-
nected with the school-the proper
kind of food, for where ever you
find a healthy body, you will like
wise find healthy mind, which is
'ready to assimilate the facts pre-
sented.
The diet should be made up of base
forming and acid forming elements,
and it is distinctly preferable that
the balance fall on the basic side.
Since meats and eggs show dis
,tinct excess, of the acid-forming ele-
ments, while in vegetables and fruits
the base forming elements predomi-
nate, it follows that the greater
amount of meat eaten the more i'm
portant is it that fruits and vegeta-
bles be also used literally. From
what has been said it is expected
that the eating of raisins will dl-
minish the acidity Of the urine. This
has been tested by Blatherwick,
who finds in all of his experiments
with vegetables and most Of these
fruits that the urinary acidity is di-
minished as expected. This shows
that the potential alkalinity had act
iiually been utilized in the nuetraliza-
ton of acid of the body.
| The raisin added to ordinary foods
increases the food value Of the pro-
duct and is distinct economy from
+. this standpoint, while giving added
flavor to many products of the bak-
cry and dishes prepared in the aver
age home. For instance the Cali
! fornia raisin bread is always popular
with every one. The addition of
raisins to the bread greatly improves
it's nutritive value as well as its fla
vor by supplying elements in which
ordinary bread is deficient, namely
precious vitamines which abound IN
fruits, and also alkaline salts which
keep the blood and other body
fluids in healthy state. The vita
mines that the raisin contain are
very important, for without vita
mines we can not live. They are,
therefore, spoken of as life-giving
elements.
This is time when we are think
ing about economy and practicing it
/; in the home. But when, the house
wife would willingly make a substi-
tuition, she is often bewildered as to
Just what food to substitute In or:
der that the family may have the
proper amount Of nouflshment
Right at her command is the raisir
ready to be served in any number OF
ways, as breads, breakfast dishes
biscuits, cakes, filing for cakes, can
dies, cookies, desserts, pies, pudding:
salads and sandwich filings. Z.
/ The grape vine way be utihzed al
a cover for walks and drives, or al
canopy over small out-buildings
IA coy summer veranda may b
covered by grape vines, thus secur
) ing the double advantage OF coo
shady nook during summer and
q supply of fruit in autumn. The raisil
lis not difficult to dry and may b
ldone on a small scale in the average
home.
4 Raisins commend themselves IN
medicinal way. The mild laxative
tendency of many fruits and yege
tables depends in part upon the fac
that they furninsh to the digestive
tract a sufficiently bulky residue
largely of celulose and relate'
isubstances) to stimulate mechanical
ily and render effective the perlstal
; tic action, and in part upon the oc
currence in many fruits and som'
vegetables of substances which ash i
from the mechanical considerations
evert a mild laxative effect.
Drying, dessication, or evapora
ton is a favorite and primitiv
method Of preserving meats, vege
, tables and fruits. Dryness furnish