, 1876-09-16
Some Practical Suggestions About
Butter.Makfng.
Useful Hints and Recipes for Our
lyolsekcopcrs.
- Talk with Girls by Mrs. E. C.
Cooke, M. ..
AnULTElsATION.
POISONED SUGAR.

have y {nr better knoWicdgc, Aiiu could tmpafL
trern extensive and ncclratc information In re-
la,,on 10 this class Of goods than the writer:
and It would certainly be desirable that they
thunll volunteer to do 80. II they will not,
perhaps tho reader ,slll accept the ANAL amount
Conformation VIC may be ablo 10 impart- Halt
4 LUST IA usually considered batter Than mono.
In discussing brown or yellow sugars they
may be classctl under five heads: First, New
Orleans plantation; second, West 1ndta; third,
mixed; fourth, coffee; and tlfth, ,molasses ssugars
Little need he said In tclatton to the first
class Of guols, tor they have always been con-
sicrcd 1cntthfui article. OF 1ate, however,
tho planters iavc adopted the practice, to some
extent, Ut chcmlcalizatton, but whether With
writer cun say. Bisulplatc Of limo Is one Of
ttr reagcnts used, but most chemists aud phy-
sicians would pronounce tllat harmless. Tie
rSaty I11o y ,a thqt th na p goos continues
Hut co1frc sugars have 60 far supplemented
them tint they cannot be found to any great
extent in tho Chicago market. 4 Wholesale
s sss s end sw daf sess eos a 81 fs % @
II tat 4 could Al ns So 5SStsis eStsi"ed s,sr 0s IL
tic, fall. II any ono wcrc to purchase an
saen or hey 10 % nearly "a S 4tsonSe the &c so s
sugars that few Of the consumers can dlstln-
t,,tisi. one from the other.
The second ciass-West 1ndta-have as good
arcputatlon for healthtulncss as the first. Tho
planters on the islands nro also sai1 to 1ase
adopted Standardization to some extent. II 40,
It Is get to BE- proved tilat they use anything
which would proTo injurious to tho consumcr.
Few Of these sugars, however, lind their way
into the Western market. The duty thu best
grades is high, md, consequently, very few Of
that class urc imported into tho United States.
nre very extensively Imported, arc bought up bY
the rrilners, adu!tcratet by somc with grape
sug4r, ard chcm!calizcd, 40 that they arc breht-
er and hare uore inviting appearance than the
hest grades Of ruw West India sugar, and arc
sold at ]css price.
Most consumers arc In tic habit Of Judging Of
an article more b. its appearance than ~ us In
trinste value. Tie great majority would select
has tic greatest amount OF saccllnrno matter,
and is Gy far tho most Ilcaithful, and conec.
Stances s.ances, W It is not strange tl tilat e rrobably,
mt over ono OF two Of tho Wholesale dealers Ia
Chicago pretend to keep 1t, und they 1nl tho
sales very slow.
tion with mo!asscs sugurs The luttcr being
tuurs drtcr improve tho former when mixed
With them. This is frequent practice With tho
. dealers. II there IL ANYTHING Objectionable in
rest against tho mixed goods.
The fourth class arc tho yellow coffee. As
few except those Immediately connected with
posse e nc tan f. o.
tures, 6used On % elrcunstantiai ] % e7idence. ] Ino
thing Is ccrtain, tslat chemical discoveries have
enabled the rcauers to take tho poorest, grades
s,lnef viii Imagine tlat he Is purchasing flrst-
cluss article. THIS, Of course, is accomplished
by the uso OF chemicals. But wlat arc they, is
TIE question: nonbtlcss some use tnoae which
some, who buy ouly the better eiass Of raw
sugars call refine then, by chemicals which nro
perfectly harmless. Ny experience with yellow
Sy G caer e1ed o tS soo
Ll,c rr1ners l,so sulphur quito extensively for
bleaching the augar. They bliy q low grado OF
The raw article. aud BY sulphur and similar
customer equal to that which IL made from d
better cnss ii rar sugars, and which iaye i.ss s
aud more hcalthful kind OF Decentralization.
isa, suppo,s'1s t.ey DO use % %ss'Paf + + @.
Il. They have n,otics Of neutrailztlc @ most, no ai
pethaps ali, Of Tic chemicals used, 80 that they hey
sa'.not be discovered ; 3D.. NeyertleSss i sa.,uot
rendered perniclouB by thls repeated application
Of chemicals one after tho other
II there are sufficient chc1nicals In any alt
health arc u1ado sick By item, then auaiysfs
would undoubtedly sllnw it. For instancc, a
barrel Of sirup was soid lately which caused
vomiting and purgin8 iu every one who
ubEQ II. No E1Hu0k uHuUt lHnf IH0
chemist could pufnt out tic prc.
cisa chemical which produced tllat result.
But II Is different In the caao OF those articles
marked effect only on sensitive tnYatIls, cspc.
ctaity wtcro tho most sklttiuI scientific fnycsti-
gntlons have been applied to ncutrullzo Of con-
zeal the poison they may contain. bY repeated
Decentralization, !rst fur the purposv Of claritl-
catiop and, second to antidote Lie drst class OF
thcnicals, tho goods themselves arc dctcrio-
rated 10 as to become decidedly pern!cious to
those who arc already inYaiIls, and cra,iunljy
bring u,aty who enjoy ordinary health into thc
aauau condition. The effect OF tho cl1c1nIcats on
though tho catsc OF suCh etfert muy bo hti1cu
from view. Tie yellow coffee suvufa are prob.
ably adn}tcrated with tic starch grape sugur u
much q The Wlutc.