Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1868-08-07

the silverer ofour looking glasses is equally
unfortunate. Sooner or later his system is
TILED with the poison OF tho mercury. lie
loses all control over his muscles. his teeth
drop out. he grows brown and shriveled-"
Dear me ~ interrupted bis mother more
energetically than before. II am sure /
will never buy another glass; At least /
would not, only what would be the use?
Somebody else would. you know / am
glad we have no such horrid things near
home"
we have some horrd things near
home" answered Jack, fixing his ewes on a
package which she took out for a moment
from The closet. and which sent out lamil-
lar, aromatic odor.
What do YOU mean by that and by
looking at the coffee so? II has chic cory
IN 1t. we all know; but there is nothing bad
about that
Nothing bad Do you know what chic.
cory is made of? Here is list OF articles
and very pretty list it is: Roasted
wheat, ground acorns. finely sifcd coal
ashes. red earth. baked horses and bul.
locks livers. mahogany and walnut sawdust
and ground horse feathers"
Jack. # you are not telling me the
truth said his mother. turning pale and
tossing the package OF pure ground coffee
on one side, with look OF horror.
Il have every reason TO believe what
say Is true, e" returned Jack earnestly; land
the case OF cbiccory is no worse than tha.
OF tea. In green tea there is Prussan blue.
old tea leaves, leaves of trees dried, and
copperas la black tea, gum. black.lead
used tea leaves. etc, etc. In sugar
NOW, Jack, you do not mean that YOU
are going to say word about the sugar."
II am going to say that brown sugar
swarms with the sugar insect, and is bel ped
with wheat flour and IoaI sugar is some.
times prepared with suiphuric acid, old pa
per. and rags. That Is all"
"All!"
And DO not know that it is worse than
red pepper, which is adulterated with biick-
dust, salt, deal, saw.dus,. rcd.lead, and
other agreeable compounds
"Who found it out? demanded his moth.
er. suddenly.
The microscope"
More Of Your modern science! It
strikes me people were more comfortable
when they knew hit,c less"
why. mother. that is"
See here. Jack, she intcrrupted. per
rmptorily; mot another word. | shall
never be- the woman wa. have found
out that | am a stove, and want oxygen 10
burn. Now bow much draft shall ] get in
the mec!irg.house, and in the neishJor's
par!o,s. shat up tight and dark. And how
can attend 10 the sermon. and make neigh
boIIy calls. when ! shall all the time bc
worrying about my drausht? And my
Maggie Is a stove too. Where is her draft
when she rs at school? About as much fhc
will get as 4 stove set to draw with iftv 9th.
crs in one. .htilr chimney There is the al.
bumcn too. and the starch and the oil.
llo" are wc to sc, the juices Of plants and
animals IL We have meat cooked as hard as
leather, and vegetables KEEP, on furious
boil iill ihcy are hard? And that is what
we get in The mos, Of houses WHY. Just
think Of your Aunt E'heridse, / used to
60 there. and ,binl; what hot. dark rooms,
What cross, thin. habby women. sitting
around that hot stove, But now when
60 there, shall be weighing in my mind
how many pounds Of poison they are taxing
in TO burn and send all over their bodies
thinking how their Gre. must shoulder and
burn low and blue sitting for a drauaht:
aching to pull up the curtains: making my.
sell. regai1rly nervous with wondering how
dcir chemistry is to bc done"
"Nonscnsc mother said Jack.
NO it :, not nonsense. - insisted the az.
gricycI lady II shall never look at that
clock fh1t shall not think low ann obIig
CD 20 no alI my own time keeping for the
rest ofmy lile Building a Gre tool II
used TO ho a. clsy as wiakins but to rub
match u.I its atoms are in such yiolcn,
motion that
Here Jack burst into fl OF laughter lh5t
drowned 'hc rest Of his mothers sentence.
Sic stood regarding him IN sorrow and
wrath.
"For tca, and sugar. and pepper. ms
comfort in them is gone. she said solrmnly.
"and for The sew ~ society, dread 30;
shall not be nblc to hear word Tor lhink.
ing OF tlc horrid look OF thc air over their
beads, when they all Alk together. AnII
avn not surprised hat little nowlcdgc is
L fLftHrf Cd.
What a mercy they have not found out how
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