Protect Our Bread

The maehinery of the law cannot be put at work too speedily or too vigorously against the wholesale adulteration of the things we eat. Both the health and the pockets of the people demand protection. There is no artiele of food in general use more wiekedly adulterated than the lower grades of baking powder. For raising bread, biscuit or other food only the very best and purest baking powder should be employed. The use of the ordinary cream of tartar,or of baking powders containing lime,alum and phosphates, carries deleterious ingredients into the food to the prejudice of the life and health of the consumer. The sale of adulterated baking powders has been prohibited by statute in several localities. It will be in the interests of the public health when their sale is made a misdemeanor everywhere, and the penalties of the law are rigidly enforced. The ordinary baking powder contains either lime, which, introduced into the systemin too free quantities, causes serious disorders of the kidneys ; alum, a corrosive poison, or lime phosphates, which are condemned by physicians as deleterious in their effect when taken under certain physical conditions. The Royal is the only baking powder on the market that is free from lime, alum and phosphates, and absolutely pure. The absolute purity of the Royal Baking Powder makes it pre-eminently the most useful and wholesome leavening agent known. Containing no lime, alum, phosphate or other impurity, it leaves no alkaline or other residuum in the food, and its use always insures pure, light and sweet bread, biscuit and cake, that are perfectly digestible and wholesome whether hot or1 cold, fresh or stale. lts leavening power has been determined the highest whenever tested by official authority, and all chemists and writers on food hygiëne commend it for its sterling qualities.