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Bright's disease of the kidneys — was far 

 uiore prevalent than formerly, and they 

 thought it duo to the large cousunjption of 

 caue-sugar. whicli was all uukuown in the 

 long ago. It seems to me that a little study 

 of the subject may explain this, if it be true, 

 and may give us two valuable hints — tiie 

 one, to oat more honey ; the other, to take 

 special I'aius to give children all the honey 

 they wish, and at ev'ery meal-time, in the 

 hofie to lessen the amount of cane-sugar 

 that they will eat. They like and crave su- 

 gar, because they need it to nourisii them, 

 antl so given plenty of sugar in the honey, 

 the need will be met, and the hunger for 

 candy and cane-sugar will he less keen. 



The digestion of food is simjjly to render 

 it osmotic or capable of being taken through 

 an organic membrane, capable of l>eing ab- 

 sorbed. We eat starch. It is non-osmolic, 

 and would lie in the stomach and intestines 

 indefinitely, except that by digestion it is 

 changed to a glucose-like sugar, which is 

 very osmotic, and so ea^^ily ahsorbetl from 

 the aliment-canal into the blood, ('ane- 

 sugar, though somewhat osmotic, is not 

 readily absorbed, nor is it readily assimila- 

 ted, even though it pass into the blood. 

 Thus cane sugar must be digested or chang- 

 ed to a glucose-like sugar. 



Bees gather nectar from the flowers, and 

 as they sip it. or draw it. from the flowers, 

 they mingle with it a kind of saliva or fer- 

 ment, from their upper head glands, and 

 the large glands of the thorax, and thus 

 transform it to honey, which contains, al- 

 most exclusively, a reducing sugar, and not 

 eane-sngar. Thus b-^es do to nectar what 

 ■^e do to cane-.mgar — they transform it to a 

 osmotic and assimilable glucose-like sugar. 

 We call this in our case disgestion of the 

 cane-sugar, and it is just the same in case 

 the beesdo it. If any one orefers he may 

 call it " transformation. " In any case, it 

 makes honey a safer food tiiau cane sugar. 

 and we do well to eat in more genM-ally ; 

 and it is especially desirable as food for 

 children. 



Children should be given all the honey at 

 each meal-time that they wi'l eat. It is 

 safer : will largely do away with the inordin- 

 ate longing for candy and other sweet*, and 

 in lessening the desire will doubtless dimin- 

 ish the amount of cane-sutrar eate . Then 

 if cane-sugar does work mischief with 

 health, the harm may be prevented. There 

 can V)e ro doubt but that in eating honey 

 our disrestive machinery is saved work that 

 it would have to perform if we ate cane-sug- 

 ar : and in case it is over-worked and feeble, 

 this may be just the respite that will save 

 from a break down. 



Again if cane-sugar is absorbed without 

 change, it will be removed by the kidneys, 

 and may result in their break-down ; and so 

 physicians may be correct in asserting that 

 its large consumption by the l!)th century 

 man. is harmful to the great eliminators — 

 the kidneys — and so a menace to health and 

 long life. 



It may 'be urged in reply to the above, 

 that honey is a poison to many. This is not 

 the sugar of the honey, but some other ele- 

 ment, very likely the formic acid, or perhaps 



the extract from the flowers. It seems most 

 likely that the deleterious element is the 

 formic acid added to the sweet by the bee. 

 'I'his keeps tiie honey from fermeutatiort, 

 and is not harmful to many ; only occasion- 

 ally a person is unable to eat it. " 



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ri IITr A little less than a year ago 1 bought 

 rl III I a nice flute, and was making (piite 

 I l«U I L good headway in learning to play 

 when 1 was taken sick. Then came 

 Ivy's illness, and it lias been mouths 

 siii(!e I have touched the instrument As 

 1 look ahead it seems as though the days, 

 for many more months to come, would 

 n 1 1 r be so full of work that 1 shall not 

 \fll Y have the time for practicing that is 

 UHLLi necessary in order to become a good 

 player. Reluctantly I liave decided 

 to sell the flute. It is an eight-keyed iuritrument 

 of Grenadilla wood, with tuning slide, cork 

 joints, (xerman Silver caps and trimmings, and 

 embouchure, and cost Sl'i.OO. It is put up in a 

 clotli (covered box, embossed in gilt, that cost 

 !Hi cts. i also have an instruction book, " Ber- 

 biguier's Methodfor t lie Flute," that cost f H. 

 00. The book is a little the worse for wear, but it 

 is " all there. " Yes, and there is a cleaner that 

 cost 2.") cts. The entire outfit cost me a trifle 

 overSIO.OO. but 1 will sell it for $10 00 cash, or 1 

 would accept Sl2 tK) worth of nice, wtiite ex- 

 tracted honey in exchange for it. 



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