Bloomington Telephone, Volume 15, Bloomington, Monroe County, 18 August 1893 — Page 3

SOME SANITARY ASPECTS OF BREAD MAKING.

BY CYRUS ED80X, M. D. Health Commissioner. New York Oity,

It is necessary, if one would understand the sanitary aspects of bread making, to fully comprehend

the present theory held by scientists j

of germs and the part played by them in disease. The theory of disease germs is merely the name given to the knowledge had of those germs

that the uncooked yeast bread has , pounded from impure ingredients,

been eaten and with it the colonies ;or those which are not combined in j

of germs, that they have found their

THE FAIR SEX.

wav into the blood and that the call

for our services which followed, has rounded off this sequence of events. I have already pointed out that tho genus of disease are to be found in the air and dust. The longer any substance to be eaten is exposed to the air. the greater the chance that germs will be deposited on it. Bread raised with veast is worked down or kneaded twice before be;ng baked and this process may take anywhere from four hours to ten.

It has, then, the- chance of collecting

by medical men. a knowledge which

is the result of innumerable expert- j disease germs during this process of

ments. Being this, the old term of j raisinirand it has t wo periods of work

ing down or kneading during each of which it may gather the dirt containing the germs from the baker's hands. As no bread save that raised with yeast, goes through this long process of raising and kneading so

a "theory"' has become a misnomer. A germ of a disease is a plant, so small that I do not know how to express intelligibly to the general reader its lack of size. When this rcmi is introduced into the blood

or tissues of the body, its action ap- no bread save that raised with yeast

pears to be analogous to that which I has so good a chance ot

takes place when yeast is added to ! germs. dough. It attacks certain elements j What is meant by "raising" bread of the blood or tissues, and destroys ! is worth a few words. The intro-

them, at the same time producing j duction of the yeast into the moist - . I 1 t 1 "I . Milt

new substances.

But the germs of the greater part of the germ diseases, that is. of the infectious and contagious diseases, will develop or Increase in number without beiug in the body of a human being, provide;! always you

dough and the addition of heat when the pan is placed near the lire produces an enormous growth of the yeast fungi the yeast "germ" in other words. These fungi effect a destructive fermentation of a portion of the starchy matter of the

proper proportion or carefully mixed and which will leave either an acid or an alkali in the bread, must not be used. Tt is well 1o sound a note of warning in this direction or the change from the objectionable yeat to an impure baking powder will be a ease of jumping from the frying pan into the fire. The best baking powder made as shown by analysis, the Roval.'' It contains absolutely nothing but

cream of tartar and soda, refined to j a chemical purity, which when com- j bined under the influence of heat j and moisture produce carbonic acid i gas, and having done this, disappear, j Its leavening strength has been j found superior to other baking t powders, and as far as 1 know.it is the j only powder which will raise large j

broad perfectly, its use avoids the lonir ueriod durinir which tin veast

gathering . made dough must stand in order that

the starch may ferment, and there is also no kneadirg necessary. The two materials used in the Royal, cream of tartar and soda, are

perfectly harmless even when eaten.

There are firms in New York as j well as in London that make a bnsiness of leasing out wedding dresses. ! VrhleosQ Mur'n Ribosen svvnm the

Hellespont, recently, from the European shore to the Adriatic, recalling the exploits of Leander and Uyron.

Til K LATEST IX FANS, The season is here when the

fan

MISCELLANEOUS ROTES. A circular city railway is to be constructed in Vienna. Short nails on a soft hand betokens a teasing, sarcastic, fault - finding person. Child marriages are so eommou in India that the average age of a mother when she gives birth to her lirst child is ten years. A halibut's tooth made a slight

HoodVP Cures

iMvnme.s an indispensable adjunct to j scratch on the thumb of a fisherman every woman's toilet. Here are i in Hull, England, and in three days

some of the latest Parisian designs: : uo died of blood poisoning.

Dome ot the women or t Tuna are beginning to comprehend the folly of compressing the feet. A missionary has been enlightening them on : the subject, I A pear tree, from which General Washington plucked fruit in 1777. was blown down at Doy'estown, Pa., last week. It stood on the property , of Samuel Hall.

(he best medkine

I am glad to reconr mend Hood 8 Saraapa' rilla and Hood's Pills I have suffered verj much with aevore sick Headache, . After taking six bottloe of Hood's Sarsaparills and two ooxes of Hood'f Pills, I um cured of ibaj terrible disease. I know Hood's SnrsuDariUfc it

over took." MRS. H. M.

f,ATTiN. Pine Valley. N. V

Hood s FiLL& ure Liver HI, af-c perboi

T It N S I'ARK NT FAX ( OP KX CLOSED).

AND

A pneumatic bumper, 1o bo used j on trolley cars to knock careless pe- j dostrians out of the way without j

serio.islv hurtini? them, has been

Mauve trrenadina. either embi

But. 1 hey are combined in oxact com- ; iered or painted with Pompadour . , f twi !

ponsitinff woiirht. so that when ! ttowvrs, and stripe:! horizontally " - , 1 V V- V

s of niuiti- v , VV " , WY :

resfuiariv visits trie ground unaer- i

j ' "r ' ' ' " , r chemical action beinb between them hvith irregular scallop

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. . .11 - .A1! .... : u I. . " ..:..u ; ueath the electric lights at

quince or uoui laving urn uiKen up i LJ h'mvcis; l-uyli row iniiii m , wl , . , , r , to form the carbonic acid tfas. Mor? 1 projecting loop. Mount of mauvo Kl catches bus to feed them.

mo tru nt ns. ;iUL'uutreu wood, on hreci wiin i meo : x uumn i Liir luiiniu muv

night

DISEASE GERMS FOUXI TilElK "WAY INTO THE YEAST BREAD

erive them the proper conditions, j flour one of the most valuable nu-

These conditions are to be found in

dough which is being raised with yeast. They are warmth, moisture and the organic matter of the flour on which the germs, after certain changes, feed. It is necessary to remember at this point that yeast is germ growth, and when introduced into a mixture of glucose or starch, in the jresence of warmth abd moisture sets up a fermentation. If the mixture be a

starchy dough the yeast first changes

trient elements in the flour. The

fermentation produces carbonic acid gas, and this, having its origin in every little particle of the starch, which is itself everywhere in the flour, pushes aside the particles of the dough to give itself room. This is wiiat is calied "raising the bread." It needs but a glance to see that it

proper

ing the powder insures the most thorough mixing with the Hour. The proper quantity being taken, it is mixed with th? flour and stirred around in it. The mixture is then sifted several times and this insures that in every part of the flour there shall be a few particles of the powder. The salt and milk or water being added, the dough is made up as quickly as possible and moulded into the loaves. These are placed in the oven and baked. But the very moment the warmth and moisture attack the mixture of cream of tartar and soda, these two ingredients chemically combine and carbonic acid or leavening gas is evolved. The consequence may be seen at a glance, the bread is raised during the time it is baking in the :ven, and this is the most perfect of all conceivable methods of raising ir. Here, then, there is no chance for germs of disease to get into the dough and thence into the stomach; more than that the bread is necessarily as sweet as possible, there having been no time during which it could sour. This involves the fact that the bread so made will keep longer, as it is less likely to be contaminated by tie germs that ari'ect the souring process. It will be strange if the crowds of

niching.

be

tween Boston and New York on the Shore Line of the Isew York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad an' average of forty-six miles an hour. A St. Louis Coroner's jury were holding an inquest on a man who had been killed bv an electric bolt.

KNOWLEDGE Brings comfort and improvement and tends to personal enjoyment when rightly used. The many, who live better than others and enjoy life more, with loss expenditure, by more promptly adapting the world's best products to theneca3 of physical being, will attest the value to healtn of the pure liquid laxative principles embraced in the remedy, Syrup of Figs. Its excellence is due to its presenting in the form most acceptable and pleasant to the taste, the refreshing and truly

KIN HE SIKCLE KAN. Mount ir. sky-blue wood, picked out with gold, in harmony with the

(rrpnuiimA oiif whwh is; niMiiimpnlKl

with gold spangles and satin ribbon.

The latter is slightly gathered on

each rib so that it describes a scallop :

at the top.

; and were divided in oninion as to

j whether the bolt was natural or arti- ! beneficial properties of a jcrfect lax-

; (icial. ; ative ; effectually oieansing the system, j " . . . , . i dispelling colds headaches nod fevers A Topeka man. whom a friend : an(f permanently curing constipation, asked one day last wek why he had ! It has given satisfaction to millions and sueh a blank look, replied that it was ; met with the approval of the medical ; too warm to wear anything he was i profession, because it acts on the Kid- ; not compelled to. even to an expres- j neys, Liver and Bowels without weaki sion. I ening them and it is perfectly free from

every objectionable substance.

feyrup of i:gs is for sale by all drug-

1)R. KILMER'S

SWAM

P-ROOT

THE IlKf.VETII VAN.

Painted lea" in maize colored

irren-

is. in its effects on the dough, purely

mechanical. The dough, which was visitors to the World's Fair do nut j adine, bordered with acoquille, tufts i 0llt;.v af r( before a close-grained mass, is now ; greatly increase the number o? con- ! of forget-me-nots and two windmill i

full of little holes, and when cooked

and then decomposes the glucose by

changing it into two new substances, viz., carbonic acid gas and alcohol.

tagious diseases, which we will have bows in shot ribbon. Mount of vel

a portion of the starch into glucose! in this condition is what we ordinar-

uy can ngnt. mis porous qualify 01 bread enables the stomach to rapidly and easily digest it, for the gastric

Now gthe gluten, which is also a juices quickly soak into and attack constituent of dough and moist it from all sides. The fermentation

starch, affords, with the Is.tter, an of the dough, however, uses up a ! drink, and to se that none but excellent nidus for the development 'portion of the nutrient elements of i safest and best methods are

to treat. Under these circumstances is it not folly of foliies to open a single channel through which these

germs may reach us? Is it not part of wisdom to watch with greatest care all that we eat

the the and the

em-

of germs of disease as well as for the loaf. If it be possible, there- ployed in the preparation of our the yeast germs. The germs of fore, to produce a light porous loaf . food? To me it seems as though cholera, as of typhoid fever, would, 'without this destruction and without j there could be but one answer to

if introduced into dough, find very ! the "kneading" process, which fills questions like those.

the cough with germs and filth, and without the long period during which the raising process goes on, the gain in food and the gain in the avoidance of the germs is exceedingly plain. But while we can easily see the dangers which attend the use of yeast, it is certain that the vesieu-

it on the who eat bread or bisvuits or rolls

low lacquered wood. A REMARKABLE II AT. Here is a hat that possesses to a a marked degree the charm of novelty. The charm of grace is conspicuously lacking. It is of soft straws-

favorable conditions for their growth.

1 do not wish to t;pose! as an alarmist, nor am I willing to say there is very much chanct? of the germs of typhus and of cholera reaching the stomachs of the people who eat bread which has been raised with yeast. But I have not the slightest cause to doubt that other

diseases hav been and will be car-1 lating effect produced by

ned about in the bread. I have met journeymen bakers, suffering from cutaneous diseases, working the dough in the bread trough with naked hands and arms. I have no reason to suppose bakers are less liable to cutaneous diseases than are other men. and I know, as every housewife knows, yeast-raised bread must be worked a long time. This is an exceedingly objectionable thing from the standpoint of a phy

sician, for the reason that the germs !

of disease which are in the air and dust and on stairways and straps in streetcars, are most often collected on the hands. Any person who has ever kneaded dough understands the way in which the dough cleans the hands. This means that any germs which may have found a lodgingplace on the hands of the baker before he makes up his batch of bread are sure to find their way into the dough, and once there, to rind all the conditions necessary for subdivision and growth. This is equivalent to saying that we must rely on heat to kill these germs, because it is almost certain that they will be there. Now, underdone or doughy bread is a form which every man and woman has seen. It is a belief as old as the hills that underdone bread id un healthful. This reputation has been earned for it by the experience of countless generations, and no careful mother will wish her children to eat bread that has not been thoroughly cooked. The reason given for this recognized un healthful ness has been that the

uncooked yeast dough is verj' difficult

1. have shown ;he danger of us:ng the yeast raised bread, and with this I have shown how that danger may be avoided. The ounce of prevention which ir this case is neither dif-

! licult nor expensive is certainlv

worth many pounds of cure, and the best thing about it is that it may be

j relied on almost absolutely. Those

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with the brim straight in front, and bent down in the back. A butterfly bow of black lace, some loops of green ribbon and a small bunch of tips adorn one side. Two heavy ostrich feathers start from this bunch of trimmings and pursue their respective ways down the back and across the front in an angular and

! aggressive stvle.

BREAD WJTHOUT TEA8T

dough is to the last degree

It is apparent that if we are to sub

stitute any other system of bread making we must have one which will srive us, first, mechanical re-

i suits equally as good, that is, that

will prod ucej minute bubbles of carbonic acid gas throughout the mass

F)f dough. Now it is in no way dif

ficult to produce carbonic acid gas

chenncallv, but when we are working at bread we must use such chemicals as are perfectly healthful. Fortunately these are not hard to find. The evils which attend the yeast -made bread are obviated by the use

to digest. No one but a physician J of a properly made, pure and whole-

XI IE MOST PERFECT OF ALL CONCEIVABLE WAYS OP RAISING IT."

perfect, .made, at home with Roval baking

powder may be sure they have absolutely stopped o le channel - through which disease may reach them. Note. -Ilouseke.'pers desiring information in regard to rho preparation of tin? bread which, for sanitary reasons. Dr. Edson so strongly urges for general use. should write to the- Koyal Baking I'owdrr Company, New York.

would be apt to think of disease germs which have cot been killed during the process of baking as a cause of the the sickness following the use of uncooked yeast bread.

let tms result irom tnis cause isi

Modern Greatness. Street & Smith's Good News. First Boy Fn writin a composition, and I can't think of what the teacher read the other day. It began 4 4 Some men is born great," Second Boy remember. 'Sonie is born great, some achieve greatness, and and--1

member

some baking powder in lieu of yeast.

FtfilriTwr rr avo rn r.nrnnntorl "f tin !

acid and an alkali which, if properly ! irs. ' Boy-Oh, yes, I re combined, should when they unite ! ow som-gets cured at once destroy themselves and pro- i standin d'seasof,-

of long-

duce carbonic acid

more than probable. I have not the slightest doubt that could we trace back some of the cases ot illness which we meet in our practice we

would rind that germs collected by the baiter have found their way into

jras.

A

work

good

while

and having

baking powder does its

the loaf is in the oven, done it, disappears.

But care is imperative in selecting the brand of baking powder to be

! certain that it is composed of non-

i4Y6u look sweet enough to eat." said Josh Sasafias to his best irirl. on Sunday afternoon. 4 'You must wait till supper time and you'll see rriceat," she replied.

The gigantic statues of Rameses.

the yeast bread! that, the heat has injurious chemicals. Powders con- in Egypt, were placed in position by not been sufficient to destroy them, ' taming alum or those which are com- rolling them along greased planks.

The Countess Fedora Gieichen has J

been commissioned by the Committee of the Carlton to execute a bust of Lord Salisbury for the club. The bust wiil be a repiical of her by the Countess' father, the late Prince Victor of Hohenlohe, better known as Count (Jleichen, which is now in the Constitutional Club. Mrs. Peary, of Arctic fame, is a tall, willowy woman, whose personality is very attractive. She says her height aroused much euriosity among the Eskimo women, who are rather below size, and they were anxious to know if all white" women were "so high, ' Mrs. Langtrys beautiful seam yacht. White Ladye, has arrived in New York. The 4'Lily" is not with her. for the boat is rented to a New York Millionaire, Ogden Goelet, and she will be one of the Newport fleet. She is of 700 tons, and cost U)0,UU). Baroness Burdett-Coutts, who is said to oe the only woman created a peeress by reason of her great public services, and the first,' if not the

j last woman to have the freedom of

the eit.v nf TnnHnn hiw in hm ivw

session a famous tiara of diamonds ! tho ver.Y btfst aml thequantity suffi-

t hat belonged to Marie Antoinette. MMonr lo f Pavft the streets or every city hi the west and not show anv

j diminution of the supply.

Doctor I think your wife make? half of her ills herself. Husband Well, you re mistaken bhe always hires everything done.

Wilmot. W. Brown. Jr.. the Koston

naturalist, who has been exploring x gistsin 50c :and $l bottles, hut it is mai the forests of ueatan ior speci- j ufactured by the California Fig Syrup

mens, nus just, reiumeu inuiai, cny Uo. onlv. whose name is printed on everv

; with a large collection of birds and j package, also the name. Syrup of Figa, i animals. j and Iwsing well infoimeJ, you will not I A wonderful vegetable is the ! subulate if cfored.

truffle. It has no seeds, flowers, ! leaves, stems, or roots. Trained

dogs huirc for it in England, and in i ! some European countries trained .

sows perform this service. " ; Until a month ago, and for a per- : iod of twenty-one years, not a particle of medicine has been used in the family of Mr. and Mrs. Weathers, ! of Shelbyville N. C, They are the parents of twelve children, ;

Pi prisoner in tne Montana uem- 1

?er Lodge is quite an ;

artist in wood. He aas carved unon i

a single stick the heads of all the : : Presidents of the Tinted States, atftl I likenesses are said to be excellent. I Marriage is evidently not consid- j

j eiva a laiiure by Annon Ames and ; Mrs. Mary Fulkerson. of Elkhart, I lnd. . They were recently wedded, each at the a go 'of seventy-five, and this is the third matrimonial venture

for bride and groom. The Shah of Persia carefully treasures an heirloom in the shape of a small cube of gold literally covered with Oriental letters and characters. It is said to have fallen from heaven in Mohammed's time. John Thorn burv. of Chester county. Pennsylvania, found fourteen patridge eggs in his grass field, took them home and set a hen on them.

Every egg produced a little partridge, and all are living snugly in a

coop made of wire netting.

Dr. Laking. who was knighted by the Queen the other day, holds the office of "surgeon-apothecary to the Queen," and has been for many vears the regular medical attendant of the Prince and Princess of Wales and their family. The most active member of the Beecher family now living is Rev. Thomas K. Beecher. pastor of the Park church in E).mira, N. Y. He is a tall, broad shouldered man, sixty-nine years old, with a plentiful brown beard, now tinged with white. The Mexican Indians have a substitute for soap that in some respects is quite as useful as the arti-cle-itself. It is the espinossilla, or thorn plant, which grows everywhere in Mexico, and is so-called because touching it gives the impression of touching a bough covered with thorns. A branch or a root of it crushed together in the hands and used as a scrub-brush makes a lather equal to the best soap and will cleanse clothing, domestic utensiis or the floor quite as well.

the expression from pillar to post" is derived from a custom practiced in the riding school of olden times. The pillar was placed in the center of the ground, and the posts were arranged two and two around the circumference of the ring at equal distances. Hence "from pillar to post" signified going from one thing to another without any definite purpose. A recent mineral find is about to be developed in the Chickasaw Indian Reservation, sou Mi of Guthrie, Okla. Immense beds of asphaltum, rivaling those of the island of Trinidad, have been found near the Arbuckle mountaius. The oualitv is

CURED ME. Dr. Kilmer & Co., Einghamton, N. T. (ientlemen: "I desire to teW you just how I was, so that the public may know of your wonderful Swamp-Kool, Two years ago last October 1 had spoils of vomiting1; I could not keep anything in my stomnob; the Doctor aid I had consumption of the stomach and uowcls; tntinued to run-down in weight; I watt reduced to fiO lb. 1 would vomit blood, and at one time as much as three pints; we had two of the best Vhysieians and they said my case was hopeless. "Oh, my sufferings were terrible A neighbor told us of your "fwamp-Hoot, and my husband got c, bottle; I took it to please him. I used sire bottles of Swamp-Root and 1 am now nearly as well as fver. I neigrh 108 a., do my own work aud take care of my baby, i 'very one says, M raiatd from the tieati and many will not believe that I am still living until they come and ce uic, and then they can't believe their own eyes, I am looking o My." Very gratefully Mrs. John (.Jhampink, Jan. 10th, 1S93. Antwerp, X. Y.

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Ftiiiuddphia women have an office where complaints of nuisances in any quarter of the city may be filed. It is maintained by the Women's Health Protective Association.

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