Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1910 — BREAD, “THE STATE OF LIFE.” [ARTICLE]

BREAD, “THE STATE OF LIFE.”

•Uni CcimU Have Proven Their Valne me Homan Food for Agn. According to modern analysis, as well as to well-founded traditional knowledge, there is an amplitude of potent and strength-giving factors in oats, corn, wheat, rice and other varieties of the graminiferous products to warrant their use as a mainstay and staple of food. Bread has been for centuries recognized in the telling popular phrase as “the staff of life,” and popular phrases are usually founded on sound experience, the Philadelphia Telegraph says. Going back to the roots of the language, our word "lord" is derived from the Anglo-Saxon words “loaf-ward"—the loaf keeper or dispenser, who was of course an important feudal figure. The Roman mob cried “panem et circenses”-—for grain and pleasure. Despite the strictures of dyspeptic Carlyle, the Scotch with their oaten cakes and oatmeal porridge are a robust race. The Chinese have for centuries flourished on a fare of rice; the aboriginal Americans bad maize as their chief food; the southern Latin people partake mainly of spaghetti and the northern peasantry, eat their bread made of various grains. And so examples might be multiplied indefinitely to attest the value of cereals In the human economy. At this time cereals are to be obtained in many varied and palatable forma As manufactured there is an infinite variety of them which might beneficially be turned to account in the daily regimen. The objection may be urged that immediately this is done the new demand will cause a rise in prices, but such reasoning would be fallacious in view of the CWo-fold fact that the manufacturers of cereals have conducted in their interest a campaign, the feature of which is a fixed price for cereals and that the supply Is too ample with our yearly “bumper crops.”