Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1914 — Luxury of Sugar. [ARTICLE]

Luxury of Sugar.

Sugar was considered an article of luxury In Europe until tea and coffee became usual articles of diet. Sugar was then used to sweeten these beverages and so gradually came to have a prominent part in the daily diet. Before the days of sugar much more meat was eaten and the drinking of alcoholic beverages was much more common. The fair maiden who could not, with impunity, drink a pint of ale for breakfast was unusual. Perhaps, in spite of the fact that most of us eat too much of it, sugar is a blessing. Even oversweetened coffee and cereal covered with sugar sound more beneficial than a pint of ale and half a pound of beef for breakfast.