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Show iiiil B-f i ,! i 'r"rr 1 H 1 C MOWING How Eminently Respectable Fresh H I uJWhite Bread May) Be an Insidious, Foe in the Camp H ofBeauty.and HowImportant It Is for Milady to Watch H ; Her Diet M YTrrV LH tAfyS ( pfMj r The Lydy Won't t Rm-or'GSxf ' iVM Fruh Bread Sha Ankj ,r It SylfrA ' 1' J S4jr)e Brud. Think cf Itl" H Woprricht, 1811. br the Kcw Toric Iltrald Co! AU rtebt xcjorrcd.)' THE long procession of beautiful women in history, called to the mind's eye, may pass In review like a dream of Walpurgis Night given ppH for the especial delectation of Hcrr Faust H Other beauties, less fabled, less famous, have H como and gone, humble flowers that flourished and Hj blossomed to glorious maturity all yvcr this old world H of onrs for long, long generations. Men have lived H nnd died for them, poets have sung their praises and H nrtlsts have perpetuated tlielr charm on canvas. T Beauty was Its own excuse, Its own crown, and none B questioned. 4t was. That alone sufficed, But It re- H inaincd for this practical, unromantlc age, which j analyzes the perfume of n flower and reduces It to H hard chemical formula, to turn tho cold light of 1 science on beauty and sound a note of alarm against H Fresh Bread. Some bald headed reincarnation of j Faust, studying tlie mystery of life nnd youth, at last 1 wrung this much of the secret from nature. j Of course, ail of the beauties thai have gone on M their regretted ways must have eaten Fresh Bread, j not to spenk of delicious pastries, such as Is men- j tloned from Plutarch down to the time when eating B Jn France, even more than it is now, was a sublime H. art. Indeed Fresh Bread is the badge of respecta H billty, the russet-browned, crusty badge of good stand- H ing to which society has held too jealously for ccn- j turlcs. But now the microscope, which has set forth 1 marvels of scientific revelation, has pointed It out as H a foe of beauty and given it a reputation that would H put It. In the Rogues' Gallery of foods which every H woman who Is In the new spirit of things keeps, care-j H fully edited, In her boudoir. H Fresh white bread, declares the beauty analyst H with the microscope, is dyspeptic and consumptive in j its influences and does irreparable injury In villages H' and cities where It Is either left on the doorstep or on 1 the dumbwaiter. But, despite the warning, of course. H people will continue to cat fresh white bread ami H enjoy It until they reach-a ripe old age. Only those 1 on beauty bent and who arc willing to make certain H self-denials will heed the warning. H Revealcdby Science. H Science, which is constantly revealing wonders in H Its investigations of the food question, Is clearly solv- j ing some of the most baffling mysteries of beauty, so H U-fc wlen a savant to -whom all these things are 1 open books sees a beefsteak or a round g.bcef in tho j ice box and oatmeal and whole wheat bread In tho. UH closet he may smile and be nblo to computo Just to 1 what degree this raw material may be transmuted Into j feminine good looks.. The relation of nutrition to j beauty is so generally recognized now that many j wealthy women consult their physicians before going 1 to the beauty shop. And, indeed, it Is not impossible H that In tlmo these peculiar evolutions of nn advanced H and luxurious civilization will regularly utilize the H services of skilled medical practitioners. H A beautiful Westcrrfv woman whoso unyielding j youth laughs at her mature years was recently asked H the secret of the glowing freshness of her complexion", H the line textnre of her skin, tbojnoad, smooth fore-' M head,' so serene in Its perfection that a wrinkle would B seem a profanation. She smiled with pleased satlsfac- tion at the question and the brown eyes that twinkled j were as bright and animated as a girl's. She gave one H the impression of abounding vitality and the pure Joy V of living, this matron with the face and charm of a H girl. H "I suppose I might be regarded as an excellent cx- H blbit," she saW, "of what proper eating muy aecom- H H ".Well, what do you eat'" she was asked. H "I can enlighten you better by letting you know M what I do not eat," she replied. "First of all, and 1 most important of all uo'fresh white; bread. I'd just M ns leave tnke poison. I paid a' smnli fortune to a j physician, a food specialist, to learn this, ffis fuuda- mental advice was of greater benefit than any tiitit expensive beauty doctors can offer, for nutrition Is the basis of all healthful beauty. However, dearie, It's a long nnd complex story, but I'll Just say if you want to keep your good looks avoid fresh while bread as n beginning. (When I was n very little girl I remember re-member hearing a slory of a beautiful girl wjio whs so poor that she lived on crusts of stale bread. I wondered, In my childish way, how she could live on crusts and still be beautiful. Now I realize it was because she ate tho stale bread." v Wisdom of Wise Eating. A New England woman oil high social position, who has long hearkened" to the wisdom of wise eating with such gratifying results that she nnd her daughters daugh-ters may be easily Liken for sisters, cats whole meal bread at home, but when travelling insists upon being served with stale bread. A friend of hers, who has been living abroad for the last ten years, happened to be dining In n London hotel last summer when she heard ope waiter confidentially say to another: "Rum sort In Yankee folks over there. The lydy won't eat rowls or good fresh bread she arsks for It slyle style bread, think of It!" "Why, John," said tho woman who overheard; "we're in luck. Mrs. Beacon Is stopping here." "llovr do you know?" he queried. "Get a wireless while you've been sitting herc?','- She nodded. "Yes; I heard that waiter say an American woman insisted upon getting stale bread. There may be other women who have this fad, but she is the sort of stale breadder who will stand out for what she vants never mind whore, she I and get It. Mr3. Beacon, as sure as fate, John." And so it proved. Xor Is this knowledge confined solely to women of wealth, who have the advice of the best medical talent and beauty blooms. As supply always follows de-maud, de-maud, It is significant that many dealers in large cities and even smaller towns have a considerable call for Btale bread. Thero arc bakeries In Xow York, - Boaton, Chicago nnd Philadelphia which advertise thoroughly "ripened" bread. The process of baking on a large scale, though It may bo entirely sanitary nnd have tho benefit of surprising sur-prising automatic features, has not improved the quality of broad above tho grade of (ho good, wholesome, whole-some, homo made article. The Inflexible commercial spirit that lakes note of every small fraction of an ounce and oven estimates to a hair breadth the proportion pro-portion and money value of air that will fill one loaf is naturally Inlcnt, like the wise railroad mnn, to get out of the process "all that the traffic will stand." The greater proportion of bread in large cities nnd towns is largely proportioned with air. Prettily browned, Crusty and spoojously proclaiming lis freshness, It is nevertheless a distended rounded thlug of false seeming. seem-ing. Wonderful as a Sponge. Take one of these pretty five-cent loaves nnd you can crush It In your hands like a cheap sponge, because be-cause it Is wholly lacking In body and the rapid fer-montntion fer-montntion has swollen It to a proportion that means large profit to the baker. This airy,-spongy bread, because xlt Is manifestly immature, moulders nnd sours with surprising rapidity, so that much of It cnu-not cnu-not become oven safely stale. Ami yet hundreds of thousands of such loaves arc dally consumed In cities of large population. , A New York woman, who finally rebelled against srsJ A0' - w ' JIMflnUPW She Crushed It ond Then Tore It Apart "L,ook! It's a Regular Sponge I" the imposition of the manufacturing baker, in repeating repeat-ing her Indignant protest to her family physician, held up before him a loaf of particularly fine pneumatic, while bread and said, as she crushed it and then tore It apart: "Look! It's a regular sponge!" The physician smiled. "It's worse than that," said he. "Nature, In all her wonderful achievements, never devised a sponge that could carry as much water as that bread holds air." ' The most perfect type of matured bread, that will keep unspoiled for years and yet lose none of its high nutritive qualities, Is the Invention of an, American woman. Lack of definite Information makes It Impossible Im-possible lo say whether she was strikingly blessed with beauty, but that sftc has been healthy and not afflicted af-flicted with tho Ills that beset women prisoned In cities Is adduced by the fact that she was at the time of her invention the good wife of nn Adirondack guide aud ate the wonderful bread of her own mak- f: hig. ' " v Here, indeed, has maturity reached Its highest 'efll- n clcney, for this mountain bread, by the nnture of its tl long continued ripening, makes cold storage only a mild analogy. Imagine eating bread eight years old and enjoying it! Stale? Yes. but stale with such desirable de-sirable qualities that the United States army experts arc not loa'th to commend It. Mrs. Jacob Wctmorc Is tho benefactress nnd a grateful posterity may yet render to her memory fitting fit-ting recognition of her blessing to errant and Jaded stomachs. A race of beauties yet unborn who, by eating eat-ing what she devised, avoided indigestive ills and kept the freshness of healthy digestion they will raise thpir musical voice nnd call her blessed. So will, perhaps, tho soldier who Is well matured by it. Brigadier General Ilenry G. Sharpe, commissary gcnernl of the nrmy, made several teste at I'OT Rllcy. California, a year ago. He received Mrs. Wet-more's Wet-more's famous recipe from Mr. P. I. Hudson, who announced that the bread had stood the test for a great many years and for the use of campers, at least, was superior to nny other known bread. "The recipe." wrote Mr. Hudson, "was given to me by Mr. R. B. Hugh, botanist and forester, of, Low-vlllc, Low-vlllc, N. Y., who himself got it about twelve years ago from an Adirondack guide named 'Jake' Wet-more. Wet-more. So far as we have been able to learn, the bread was Invented by his wife and used by her for many years. The chief advantage of the bread over others is that It may be preserved indefinitely If kept dry. Mr. nugh himself kept n batch of It for eight years, and at the end of that time found it as good as when first made." The recipe Is a rather long one, but the dough Is prepared with painstaking care, contains mashed po tato and Is beaten with n lustily swung axe handle. There, Indeed, Is the flavor of the camp which rathoc stamps Mrs. Wotmore's creation as a regular "back to nature" bread. The sponge is made In the afternoon and kept tn rise over night in seventy-five degrees. Then comes ithc axe handle walloping, after which the dough is rolled out nnd cut Into squares and baked, like cook- les, for a half hour. Then the brend is left in a warming oven or about the stove to dry out thor-6ughly thor-6ughly for n. day or two. This Is the first maturing stage. " Fresh from the Oven. Stored in a dry place it will keep indefinitely, but when wnnted for use one Is rolled over In cold water nnd drained carefully from one corner. Flaced upon a plate In a short while It begins to puff up and seems like freshly baked brend. "Our most .common and painful ailments, the early . decay and death of our most promising American imillcs, unquestionably are due to this almost unl-crsal unl-crsal use of new fermented brend," recently re-mrkqd re-mrkqd nn expert who has given painstaking study to le subject. "The opinions of thp most eminent doc tors and mlcropcoplsts agree that neither alcohol nor nny other causo has so much to do with the 111 health and Jll looks of American people as their habitual use of brnnd newrom.the bnklng. "Disenscs of defective nutrition rise from feeding on white flour bread anncmla, consumption and their related crew of pneumonia, Influenza and nervous ; failures; disens,es of disordered nutrition from the fermentation Induced by fresh yeast food are a more dreaded list peritonitis, gastric ulcer, acute indigestion indiges-tion and the ugly, morbid deposits of ulcer and tumor, j cancer sarcoma, in endless variety. "If nny woman wishes for a lucid, fine grained complexion com-plexion she must avoid fresh yea3t bread and white bread of all kinds as she would infection. Certain favored constitutions may resist poisons, but to secure se-cure a fine skin without failure the whole meal bread Is indlspcnsablp " A cheery old man, with a bright, alert eye, with the traces of youth In hJs check and a mental dx- ' lority that makes a mock of his gray hairs, has held closely to the stale bread diet for many years. Tie -cannot bccnlled a beauty by the measure that one applies ap-plies lo a womnn, but he possesses all that any womau of his years might envy freshness of spirit, ' elasticity of movement, keenness of mind, firm, healthful flesh and a digestion that gives to life nn unbroken zest. He Is n newspaper mnn, one of tho colerie that made Cincinnati famous, and is known to men of affairs all over the country. Stale bread has been his hobby for years. He doesn't preach IL ' no is proud merely to exhibit himself lis an argn- ) incut. No' microscope aided him In his choice, no $" learned medical dissertation, no seductive tnlk of j the beauty doctor, for he is n plain, unaffected mnn, without any pitiful vanities. i ' He arrived at conclusions by a process of deduo , tion and elimination and long ago established the fact j entirely to his own satisfaction that fresh brend did i not mature before a lapse of twenty-four hours. It has been Jokingly said of him that hp cast his fresh bread upon the waters and-it returned to him after j many days. And while he illustrates the storv to show how general the application of mnturo brend 'may be, still one Interested iu the subject from a femi- nine point of view regards him with something of re- ', grot that he isn't n woman. For what a splendid exhibit would he then bel Observed by One Woman. ; , An obs'ervnnt mntron who, made a leisurely journey jour-ney from the Pacific coast eastward recently re- marked that the complexions of the American women X had shown remarkable improvement in the Inst twen- J-ty-fivc years. Of course, snid she, It was to be al- L lowed that outdoor exercise and participation in light 1,1 sports played a considerable part in bringing about I such a result, but she was Inclined to think that the ' beauty campaign having to do with diet and carried ' PHPHM4W , ' Th'cn Comes the-A'xc Handle Walloping " '""'' ; on through newspapers and magazines vras the most H powerful clement. f B For now tho woman who Is mhTdfuI of her looks '?. R goes earnestly m for conservation, whether she lives & In Oconomowoc, Kankakee, Chicago, Boston or New 6 P Jork. takes her steak carefully broiled Instead of i ii fried, eats roast beef with the Juice in it and takes E oatmeal in some shape to. counteract tho rtvsnrmHo $ El tendencies of white bread-provided, of course, she's not committed to the use of the staid loaf J T mi!t tbC 7man Wb has beon eu"6htened by tho ft microscope knows that, white flour is frequently lack- f W rL 7 , ,t,hC Pnrt 0( tbC Wheat that 'or a l I fresh, healthful skin, for In the mill process the piios- f Eg Phorus next to the tlii,ty outer coat. is thrown aside I M Eatui, it supplies vigor, .nerve and flesh. Should this MM am v , "? ,UrC f a reve,Jl" to you, dear madam, R an you wish to experiment, begin by eating whol, IKS f ou III ,8 h lhC bCDOflt 0f the (le,1e' "inly layer M ZlL h , l0W lDS,dIos'' uon a pampered, In- B active, iudoor existence. SSj, Fresh bread, say the"bcauty scientists, not oulv U ' fe heV 1 rUty' bUt t0 CVcr-v who believes that K ho wiS 8 IW,rlak!ns of tl,u "stafr of - is, m Ires w ? ,br?d f tbG lare cU,cs- U os other feat- ' fe ,' lh d0 not commend it, but tho principal one '1 IS or' 1 ben SUW bf0rC' that U is not PIly u3ted ! IS ove , "m ' .CUy bread KOes n,nt fresh from the I ft sec hV;,tab,e a iiscwlfe. who takes care to M son,,! , frCSb And here lc ls that tho micro- rov!h,t 1 tbe Uls(lS hut vitally Important I ILW 1T1' mns,c lens sll0ws th'lt the ferment i thnn-f! rm ycast t0 brcad of y sort in lws ' lg the h r. n"fUr bUrs' OTu1' eatcn otforc that stage. S dinger TuZ "P fornietIou of f J M who"e nd.T.1'0, w,ro of tl,e Adirondack guide,.' ' Igfe 'S trom n h8i?Ut. y,on? ol(1' ls better tu l loaf S& u l m a baker's," simply laughed at these peril J j& .1 i$ 6jKBBHI' ill |