Oatmeal for the Children.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 185, 27 May 1873, Page 7

Oatmeal for the Children.

To say nothing of experience, Liebeg, the great chemist and greatest authority on such Fiibjcctß, shows oatmeal to be almost as nutritions as the very best English beef; and that it contains u larger proportion than wheaten bread of the elements that go to form bone and muscle. Tin's was proved by a course of experiments carried on by Forties, an eminent philosopher, and the discoverer of the Glacier Theory, at that time Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Edinburgh University of St. Andrews. For twenty years or so he measured the breadth, and "height, and loins of his students ; a numerous class, consisting of different nationalities, drawn to Edinburgh by his tame. These were the results in respect of height, breadth of chest and shoulders, and strength both of the arms and loins :—The bottom of the scale was occupied by Belgians; above them, and but a little higher, stood the French ; very much above them, stood the English ; while the top of the scale was occupied by the Scotch, and the ScotoIrish, from Ulster, who, like the natives of Scotland, are fed in their early years with at least one meal a day of good milk and good porridge. Nations have their prejudices; but the rod which measured the height, and the tape that went round the chests of these students' and the machine where Forbes tested the power of arms and loins, had none. So one might be pardoned when reading these results, for remembering the retort made to L)r Johnston's sneer, when he defines oats hj his dictionary as " food for horses in England and men in Scotland," this namely : And where will you find such horses us'in England or men as ia Scotland ?—Dr Guthrie, in Sunday Magazine.