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Science Notes BY WILLIAM G. HAYNES. GELATIN AS A FOOD The earlier view of gelatin, which regarded it as far more nutritious than meat, was later followed by a reaction, in which it was thought to have no food-value at all. According to high authority, jelly made with gelatin, or soup thickened with it, has absolutely no nutritive value. Writing in Die Umschau, Ernst Hom berger tells us that the truth lies be tween these extreme views, and that gelatin is a really valuable food. Gel atin, or refined animal glue, is ex tracted form bones by boiling. It was first produced by Papin in 1681, and just after the French Revolution it was so highly considered that some authorities asserted that the food value of a substance could be meas ured by the amount of gelatin that it contained. In 1814 it was indorsed by the Paris Academy of Medicine, and later it was a common food in hospitals, but later experiments tend ed to rob it of its reputation. Ac cording to Mr. Homberger, these were inconclusive. We quote a translation of his article made for The Scientific American Supplement (New York, March 11). He writes: ocienunc jnvesugauons sucn as >vere carried on by Donne failed be cause people did not know at that time exactly how questions of this sort should be decided. “This fault must also be laid at the door of the second commission which under Magendie experimented with gelatin on dogs. The chief fault of the commission was that it thought a substance refused by an animal be cause of its taste could not have food value, and, further, that it did not prescribe the quantity to be con sumed by the animal. The commis sion observed insufficient nourish ment; and this held not only with the rations of gelatin, but also when bread and meat were added. The commis sion set dry gelatin before the dogs, which they naturally refused to eai. Moreover, these creatures were kept in cages in a cellar. It was, there fore, no wonder that the experiments of the second gelatin commission were wholly negative in their results and that the commission ascribed no value to gelatin as a food-product.” Later experiments show that gel atin is dissolved with a nourishin? fluid as it goes through the cells, and really dissolves more easily than al bumen, which keeps it somewhat from solution. Gelatin saves albumen to a much greater extent than fat ant' carbohydrates; but it is never pos sible to safeguard the body from all loss of albumen; some nitrogen is always consumed, and therefore i small quantity of albumen must al ways be added in order to maintain the proper amount in the body. More over, by supplying gelatin, somewhat less fat is consumed. To quote fur ther: “According to Munk, the import ance of gelatin consists in this, that it is dissolved very quickly and com pletely in the cells, and by its solu tion saves the albumen from solution. This quality of saving the albumen is an exceedingly important one, and at least twice as great as that of car bohydrates and fats. One hundred grams of dried gelatin take the place of 31 grams of albumen (150 grams of meat). Moreover, the consump tion of fat is reuced by gelatin. Five sixths of the albumen used can be replaced by gelatin. Accordingly, gelatin represents a very valuable food-product, which becomes of greatest importance where used for the economy of albumen. “It is, therefore, desirable that the value of gelatin as a food for the common people should be moer and more recognized. If, besides gelatin, a certain amount of albumen is sup plied to the body, and a certain amount of fats and corbohydrates to prevent the loss of fat, the normal condition of the body can be main tained. Because of its albumen-econ omy and fat-saving effects, and the ease with which it is digested, two men, Senator and Uffelmann, regard it as a valuable addition to fever-diet. With the low appetite of sick people and the distaste for meat one can protect the body against loss of al bumen by supplying gelatin.—Lit erary Digest. ALL-NATIONS COME TO OMAHA SATURDAY Big doings are carded for Omaha Saturday and Sunday. On that day the Brandeis semi-pro team of this city will tangle with the famous All Nations ball team at Rourke Park for a duo of combats. The All-Nations are coming to Omaha this year with an aggrega tion said to be vastly superior to those teams which have exhibited in Omaha heretofore, Donaldson and Mendez, the Negro and Cuban hurlers, remain with the team, but the other departments have been strengthened. Coleman, a Negro catcher, is receiv ing for Donaldson and Mendez has an other Cuban, Hermandez, for a run ning mate. De Lome, a Haskell Indian, is with the team and another Indian, Crow by name, holds down third. The Brandeis boys have shown great form in their games to date and expect to give the All-Nations a warm reception. LETTERS FROM OUR READERS. Portland, Ore., May 6, 1916. Editor Monitor, Omaha, Neb. Dear Sir: Permit me to say dirough the columns of your most valuable paper that in my perusal of aid paper and its contents that 1 •onsider it a crisp clean and breezy beet, in its editorial and general -lews for the advancement and im provement of the race. I bid it god speed and may it ever exist until it has reached the zenith of its ambi don in the foremost ranks of the Journalistic field. J. William Shields. Contributions From Nebraska for The Hooker T. Washington Memorial Fund: Our race over the United States are contributing to the Booker T. Washington Memorial Fund. The fund is placed at $2,000,000 for the endow ment of Tuskegee Institute. The Colored people are asked to give $250,000 towards this fund. The Monitor will receive and forward sub scriptions. The Monitor.$1.00 Israel M. 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