Whole Meal, Brown, or Cluten Bread.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 410, 12 October 1889, Page 3

Whole Meal, Brown, or Cluten Bread.

Brkad is the staff of life. Good bread contains the best food for man in the proportion required for the healthy nourishment of the system. The sweetest and most nutritious and the healthiest bread in the world is that made from unbolted wheat flour (brown bread). Not the, dry and tasteless stuff sometimes made by bakers by mixing bran with their ordinary dough, but bread made of the "whole meal" — of good, sound wheat, and containing all its nutritive elements. Chemists have found by analysis that the, nitrogenous, or flesh - forming portion of wheat resides chiefly in its outer layer — the very portion tin own away or given to cattle ; and physiologists have also discovered that it is this portion which keeps a healthy action of the bowels. No person who lives chiefly on genuine brown bread ever suffers from constipation, and long-standing cases are speedily cared by a diet of pure wheat and fruit. " From the earliest known ages, brown wheat bread has been famed as a most healthy and invigorating food. Hippocrates, the father of medicine, prescribed it ; the hardy Spartans lived on it : the Romans of the heroic ages lived on it, and their armies conquered the world on a diet of brown bread. The most healthy peasantry of Central Europe eat it as their common food. Baron Steuben Paid the peculiar healthfulness of the Prussian soldiery a century ago wa& owing to their living almost entirely on unbolted wheat bread. During the naval glory of Holland her sailors ate the same kind. During the wars of Napoleon, when wheat was dear in England, the army, from motives of economy, was supplied with brown bread. The soldiers at first refused to eat it, threw it away, all but mutinied ; but in a few days they liked it better than white, and their health so much improved that in a few months disease was almost banished. Many of the nobility adopted it, and physicians began to prescribe it. And this brown bread, with, its equivalent preparations, is the purest, the healthiest, the best form of human food ; the model food for childhood and youth, the food ot growth, purity, beauty, intellect — in one word, brown bread, milk, and fruit are the healthiest foods of man."

Never parb without loving words for your loved ones to th^nk of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life. Mistress : " Where have you been ? I've scoured the whole house for you," Bridget : "Is that so, mum ? And th' tinware in th' kitchen too, mum ?" Visitor — "Do you love the piano ?'' Lady — "No, I prefer death by electricity."