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Show THEY ALLJ3RING MILK. A Prevailing Custom that is Daily increasing in-creasing Among the Guests of the Hotels of Salt Lake. VEBY GOOD TOR CONSUMPTIVES. A Steward Gives an Intelligent Explanation Explana-tion of the Density and 'Composition 'Com-position of Milk. A little maiden rattled off the principal princi-pal part of the bill of fare at a Salt Lake hotel last evening. "Tea or coffee?" she asked. "A glass of milk," replied the big man addressed, and of the six men at the table, live of thorn orderl milk. The Times representative looked across from table to table, and beside nearly every other plate he saw a gob- ' let of the lacteal fluid. The stowurd was sought and to a question he replied: re-plied: "There are a great many gallons of milk drank daily by the guests of tho hotels of Salt Lake. The custom ap-I ap-I pears to be growing in favor and some i people prefer milk to tea or coffee, at length discarding tho latter entirely. en-tirely. Milk is a great nerve soother and in most cases produces sound and sweet sleep. Then it is es- pecially of great service to people with a tendency to consumption. Should i the continuous use of milk make any I one billious, that unpleasant feature j can in a degree be overcome by sprink-, sprink-, ling a small quantity of salt in the milk. You know the peoplo of this city are always on the rush whether they be business or pleasure bent and they require re-quire something to mollify their excitement excite-ment and tho best aud simplest and least harmful drink for this purpog e ii milk." Here it was that the steward surprised sur-prised the newspaper man by a modest and dispassionate dispas-sionate explanation of the density and composition of milk. "Cow's milk is the fluid secreted by the mammary glands. Examined under the microscope, it appears as a clear Quid, containing fat globules in suspension, sus-pension, each invested with a delicate coat of caseine which prevents their running together. They commonly vary from .0012 to .0018 of a line in diameter. It is by churning that the surrounding envelopes are ruptured and the coutents, uniting, form butter. The density and composition of milk is viz.: Density. 1038.33; water, 801.08 solid constituents, 136.94; casing aud extractive matter. 65.19 sugar, iW.Od; fat, 3ii.l2; salts, 0.04. The presence of the abundant supply of phosphoric acid, lime and magnesia is for the purpose of supplying supply-ing food to the bones, especially to children. Not only do healthy persons and invalids use milk as an article of diet but it enters largely into all hospital, hos-pital, prison and workhouse dietaries. Bread and milk and mush and milk are good old-fashion e l dishes, and they are wholesome, too. The men ana women, who, in their younger days were fed on such food unknowingly laid the foundation for good digestion..' i |