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the size of bullets are found loose in the 

 can. 



Tin is frequently dissolved from the tin 

 plate by strongly acid foods. It is probable 

 that the amount of tin sulphid is much 

 greater where the soldering or plate ex- 

 posed to the contents of the can, contains 

 a large percentage of lead. It has been sug- 

 gested that this is due to electrolytic action. 



THE VALUE OF BREAD. 



Wheat is as ancient as civilization — prob- 

 ably as ancient as man — and it is the most 

 important vegetable substance used as food. 

 In its natural state it is enveloped in a thick, 

 horny husk, so coherent with the kernel 

 that when first ground, it comes forth as 

 scales. Before it reaches the consumer as 

 flour, it must be " bolted " and " dressed," 

 and it is this last process which determines 

 its value as a nutriment, for this process 

 frees the kernel from the husk, and closely 

 attached to the husk lies wheat's chief value 

 as a nourishing food — the gluten, the min- 

 eral salts, and the phosphates, which, in the 

 ordinary preparation of flour, are wasted. 

 The finer flour is dressed, the whiter the 

 bread it produces; and the whiter the bread, 

 the less its virtue as the staff of life, which 

 it has been aptly called, and which it is, 

 indeed, when properly made. 



Good bread is rich in nutritive principles. 

 A pound of bread contains more solid nu- 

 tritive matter than a pound of steak, and 

 the secret of good bread lies in good flour. 

 To thoughtless people flour is flour, but of 

 late years, agreeably to the closer attention 

 being paid to pure foods, there is a demand 

 for flour containing all the nutritive proper- 

 ties of the wheat, which ordinary flours, 

 for the reason stated, do not. Since the 

 " whole wheat " flour is conceded to be so 

 valuable, why is it not universally used? 

 The principal reason is that, containing a 

 portion of the husk, with its valuable gluten, 

 it does not produce white bread, and such 

 is the effect of sentiment and tradition that 

 white bread is demanded, so that bakers are 

 compelled to use all sorts of adulterants to 

 produce it. If bread were but to look upon, 

 this would be merely a matter of taste, but 

 the fact is, thanks to this common use sole- 

 ly of the farinaceous portion of the wheat, 

 that ordinary table bread may be compared 

 to watered milk; the quantity is present, 

 but the quality absent. Bread eaters, says 

 an authority on this subject, will go on 

 cheating themselves and their systems until 

 they become more intelligent. It may seem 

 a small matter, but, if children, who are 

 great bread-eaters, be taken into considera- 

 tion, its importance becomes at once ap- 

 parent. 



The remedy is in the use of a whole-wheat 

 flour. There is such a flour now being put 

 upon the market by the Franklin Mills at 



Lockport, N. Y. It is of fine, homogeneous 

 quality, and of perfect digestibility, each 

 pound representing a pound of wheat, minus 

 the useless horny husk. The color of the 

 bread from this " Fine Flour of the Entire 

 Wheat " is of an appetizing and inviting 

 golden brown. The bread itself is as de- 

 licious, light, and spongy as the sk'll of the 

 cook in such matters allows. A flour like 

 this may cost a trifle more per pound, but 

 it is cheaper in that it produces bread of 

 great nutritive value. The flour question 

 is one that will bear further examination on 

 the part of housewives, bakers, cooks, physi- 

 cians, and all concerned with the manu- 

 facture or consumption of the article in any 

 of its prepared forms. — Home Journal. 



SAY DISEASE IS SPREAD BY BREAD. 



The International Journeymen Bakers' 

 Union has prepared a bill which has been 

 introduced in the N. Y. Assembly, to regu- 

 late the hours of labor of bakers and to pro- 

 hibit any work being done in bake shops 

 between 6 o'clock Saturday evening and 3 

 o'clock Sunday afternoon. 



It prohibits the employment in a bake 

 shop of any person afflicted with tubercu- 

 losis, scrofula or any communicable skin 

 disease, and forbids the exposure of bread 

 or cake for sale in any place where it is 

 liable to contamination by the dust of the 

 street, or where in close proximity to any 

 animal or vegetable matter. 



Union No. 1 points out the danger to the 

 public health in the conditions now exist- 

 ing in bake shops of the poorer class, where 

 no supervision is exercised over the health 

 or cleanliness of the employes, and in many 

 of which men are compelled to sleep after 

 finishing their work. 



It is asserted that not 10 bake shops in 

 New York observe the laws for the pro- 

 tection of their employes and their sanitary 

 regulation, and that much disease can It 

 traced to the use of bread made in improp- 

 erly protected bake shops. 



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 get a dozen high grade assorted bass flies, 

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 on the cold, hard ground? Why not take 

 with you a pneumatic rubber mattress? 

 You can get one for 25 subscriptions to 

 Recreation. 



Received the Cyclone camera you sent 

 me as a premium, and am much pleased 

 with it. 



Ralph Willis, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



