308 THE INVISIBLE WOELD 



more dangerous to our boys in blue than the bullets 

 of the enemy. 



Embalmed breakfast foods are money to the em- 

 balmers, slow poison to the consumers. 



The other morning I tried a couple of boxes of 

 corn flakes for breakfast. They vanished like thin 

 air, nothing to show for them. 



At ten cents a box, I estimate that a bushel of 

 corn, puffed up into these flakes, brings the puffer 

 twenty-four dollars. 



On corn, I can feed my rooster at one cent a 

 day ; and he grows fat. On flakes it would cost me 

 twenty times as much per day ; and I fear he would 

 grow poor at that! 



Go, ye blown up flakes invented by money 

 sharks; come ye delicious Johnny cakes invented 

 by grandmothers. 



Its mother could not nurse my baby. The doc- 

 tor ordered prepared baby food, one teaspoonful 

 mixed with water every two hours by the kitchen 

 clock. Not enough to keep a young robin alive! 

 Much less a ten-pound baby ! 



For two weeks my baby was crying most of the 

 time starving all the time. Lost two pounds 

 one pound a week. 



I armed for fight. A big rebellion ! Discharged 

 doctor. Ordered clean Jersey milk. Fed lightly 

 two days, then all baby would eat, Not by two- 

 hour-kitchen-clock, but by baby-stomach-clock. 

 Jersey food always ready when baby stomach 



