man's stkuggle for food. 9 



to the pangs of hunger and responds more readily to its call than to 

 any other stimulus. When the body is insufficiently nourished, both 

 the mind and body become abnormal ; the child in the schoolroom is 

 unable to respond to the demands of the teacher; the statesman is 

 unable to hold firmly the reins of government; and the worker in 

 the fields, in the store, or in the factory is unable to render efficient 

 service. When the weakening organs begin to call for support and 

 the life currents begin to draw heavily on the stored up energy of 

 the body, all the native habits of the individual are gr-eatly ex- 

 aggerated or undergo a sudden change. Upon the lower animals, 

 whether it be the worm of the earth or the lord of the forest, the 

 effect is the same. Among the races of men the instinct is identical 

 in the most beastly cannibal that feeds on the captives of war and in 

 the most exalted ruler of nations. Hunger takes away a mother's 

 love and drives her to devour her own child. It fills the slums of our 

 cities with thieves and thugs, nullifies all laws, and destroys all 

 order. It turns men into demons. The feeding instinct is the great 

 motive power that drives all life and that makes all living things 

 active. 



ANCIENT KNOWLEDGE OF COOKING. 



It has ever required great skill to convert the corn of a country 

 into a wholesome food. Bread is very ancient in its origin, and 

 baking is older than history itself. Man learned from experience 

 that bread supports life better than any other single food except 

 milk, and thought was devoted to its preparation, even in the very 

 earliest times. 



Sarah, the venerable wife of Abraham, knew well how to mix 

 flour and water into a shapely pone, which she baked in hot ashes 

 in her tent. The most ancient Egyptian knew how to make a light, 

 wholesome bread, which they called "leavened bread"; and the 

 Hebrews carried the art with them into Palestine. The Greeks 

 enjoyed a mixture of flour, wine, pepper, oil, and milk, and the ladies 

 of Greece delighted their friends with puff cakes of exquisitely per- 

 fumed flour kneaded with the precious honey of Mount Hymettus. 

 The Roman patrician ate bread made by mixing flour, salt, oil, and 

 milk. Wlien the white man came to America, the Indian taught him 

 to make an ashcake from Indian com. Not only has the world been 

 studying breadmaking since the earliest recorded time, but, as time 

 advanced, the real differences in the value of foods were observed. 

 Many centuries before the Christian era Moses taught his people the 

 superiority of clean over unclean food. The Greeks, clever students 

 of life and of living, studied the influence of food on the mind and 

 body, and to this day the world is the better because of their wisdom. 



