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We have no doubt they would be surprised at the suc¬ 
cess of the undertaking, and extent of their patronage. 
There is another view of this subject which we desire 
especially to call attention to, and that is the absolute 
necessity of milk, as the food of our children, if we would 
save their lives. 
That this may be fully impressed upon our minds let 
us turn to the report made by our commissioner to the 
Paris Exposition, on the “ Preparation of Food,” Vol. 5, 
page 18, of the report. 
He says, “ The astounding developments of mortality 
among children in France, lately made to the Academy of 
Medicine in Paris, a mortality which reached the frightful 
figure of ninety per cent, in certain communes, made men 
turn their eyes eagerly in every direction for new aids in 
arresting the destruction.” 
Now what aids do you suppose eminent chemists 
would devise for arresting the mortality among children ? 
We should expect that they would devise substitutes 
for milk. 
And so we find that Professor Liebig, among others, 
had on exhibition at that Exposition his “famous substitute 
for milk.” 
And we would say that we know of no scientific gen¬ 
tleman who has given more thought or study to the prep¬ 
aration of human food, or whose reputation stands higher 
in that department of effort than Prof. Liebig. 
Listen now to what the commissioner says about this 
famous preparation, 
He says: “ This artificial milk has already acquired 
considerable extension in Germany, England, and other 
countries, and in many countries it is the food furnished by 
charitable societies to the children of poor mothers, to such 
as are either obliged to abandon their children, or to place 
them in the nursery establishments by the day.” 
He further states that “ no official report on the suc¬ 
cess of this new alimentation has yet come to my know- 
