PURE; AND AMPURE HOODS: 
“What a Man Eats He Is.” 
SEE THAT YOU GET YOUR SHARE OF 
GLUTEN. 
Ephraim Cutter; Wop, Li Deewrites 
as follows (and I am sorry I can not re- 
produce his article im toto) in regard to the 
pernicious results of adulterating wheat 
flour with starch, or the foolish habit of 
eliminating the gluten in order to obtain 
a white flour: 
“The gluten of ccreal foods is their ni- 
trogenized element, the element on which 
depends their life-sustaining value, and 
this element is in the white and foolishly 
fashionable flour almost entirely removed, 
while the starch, the inferior element, is 
left behind and constitutes the entire bulk 
and inferior nutrimentof such flour. To use 
flour from which the gluten (in the bran) 
has been removed is almost criminal.” 
Millers have elaborated such_ perfect 
bolting apparatus in their efforts to ar- 
rive at absolutely white flours, that they 
have almost “bolted” out the entire 
amount=of sluten.. Starch wis ca. food) sa 
good, healthy food, but, when taken as a 
bread, it should be in its proper propor- 
tion. Recent investigations demonstrate 
the fact that dishonest millers have adul- 
terated their wheatflours with corn starch, 
or “corn flour,” as it is rather euphemist- 
ically called by some of its apologists. 
When we take into consideration the dif- 
ference in value of the 2 cereals, corn and 
wheat, we can readily understand at least 
one of the motives influencing them in 
such adulteration. Fortunately for the 
consumer, that is, if he cares to protect 
himself, this admixture of corn and wheat 
can reauily be detected. The starch cells 
of wheat are widely dissimilar from those 
of corn, and this dissimilarity can be de- — 
termined very readily with the micro- 
scope. It is the purpose of this depart- 
ment to give drawings of the various 
starch-cells of cereals, legumins, etc., in 
a future number of RECREATION, together 
with some simple tests, so that any of its 
readers will be in a position to detect 
this form of food adu!teration. 
The consumer himself should step bold- 
ly to the front and demand an entire 
whoot flour. As long as he remains qui- 
escent and allows dealers to supply him 
with “any old thing” in the shape of 
breadstuffs, just so long will he pay for 
self-starvation; for, in the long run, 
eating deglutenized flours practically 
amounts to nothing else. 
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AN ASSISTANT TO DIGESTION. 
Although tobacco, strictly speaking, is 
not a food, it is, on occasions, a powerful 
aid to the digestive process. Not only 
does it increase the flow of the digestive 
fluids; but: it. “also matemallys -assisissin 
chymefaction and assimilation. Where 
used in the form of cigars or the pipe, 
tobacco occasions an increased flow of 
secretions from the parotid and sub-max- 
illary glands, both very necessary ad- 
juncts in the process of digestion; it also, 
when not used to excess, increases the 
secretions of the entire intestinal mucous 
membrane, thus aiding and assisting in 
the emulsification and absorption of food. 
Tobacco, when used in the form of plug 
and chewed, is injurious, simply because 
of the fact that it enormously increases 
the flow from the salivary glands. If the 
saliva was swallowed, it would assist very 
materially in digestion, but, since it is ex- 
pectorated, it is entirely lost, thus. pro- 
ducing an active and exhausting drain 
upon the system. Apropos of the habit 
of chewing tobacco an exchange says: 
“The convenient but much-disparaged 
habit of chewing tobacco is rapidly de- 
clining in this country. Missouri manu- 
factured 5,000,000,000 pounds less chewing 
tobacco last year than the year before. 
New Jersey and Kentucky each showed a 
falling off of about the same amount. It 
is owing to this decrease in the consump- 
tion of the chewing-tobaccos that, al- 
though the use of the cheap smoking-to- 
baccos has largely increased, the amount 
of manufactured tobaccos was 57,000,000 
pcunds less than the total (294,000,000 
peunds) of the year before. But the ex- 
ports of chewing-tobacco increased last 
year 73,000 pounds, showing that the rest 
of the world is not improving as fast as 
we are.” 
It will be a happy day and a great bless- 
ing to humanity, when this filthy and dis- 
gusting habit is abandoned by mankind. 
You tobacco-chewers who have “heart- 
burn,” eructations of food, and colic, try 
a cessation of the habit for a week or so. 
Your disagreeable symptoms will disap- 
pear as if by magic! 

