Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-08-01

I lookout tor the blue ribbon gentlemen,
However, let Us hcne that the tea and
coffee are all right"
Not likely he re Joined. Nearly all tea
is faced, as they call it, more or less, and
the facing Is itself an adulteration. As
for coffee, you don't expect TO get the
I pure, do your It's sure TO be mixed with
chicory, anyhow, and very probably with
roasted acorns, beans, mahogany sawdust
or old tan. Baked horse liver occasion
ally; but that's an extreme case. II, by
any remote chance. there wasn't anything
wrong in the original coffee, you get it in
the chicory; and very often there are sdul
'srations in both; SO you get 'em twice
over.r
IF that's the case, no more ground coffee
for me. Wen grind our own, and then
We are sure to be safe
You mustn't make too cocksure of
that Some years ago an ingenious firm
took patent for a machine TO mold
chicory into the shape of coffee berries.
Smart chaps thosel And of course they
can put anything like that into the chicory
before they work ii up"
e~That's pleasant, certainly. Then how
Is one 70 procure pure cotfeei"
You can't secure it except by sending a
sample TO us, or some other shop OF the
same sort, 10 have il analyzed; and, IL it's
wrong, prosecute your grocer for adulter-
alton. After doing that a few times he
might hnd 1t didn't pay and give it up"
And how much would that costt"
Analysis OF a sample Of coffee, l guinea;
analysis Of butter, guineas; analysis OF
milk, guinea; analysis of tea, l guinea.
These are the regular charges for private
analyses
Rather expensive, il seems"
The subject dropped. But a few days
later there CHANGED to be apple pudding
on the table. With the dish in question
my analyst had always been in the habit
of consuming brown sugar, and good
deal of it. Now, however, on the sugar
basin-the Demerara-being offered to
him, he put on an expression as If he had
been invited to partake of black draught |
Raw sugar! No thank you"
-Hillo, what's wrong with the sugar, |
Is it all adulterated too!"
Very probably" he loftily replied. ~But
that is a small matter. The genuine arti- |
Gle is bad enough"
Bad enough" Indignantly interposed |
my analysts mamma That's Mr.. Grit
ties very best moist-s pence 8 farthings
A pound!"
Il dare say it is II it was 4 pence it
wouldn't make any difference Did you
tver hear Of the sugar-mill, Acarus sac
,hari-"
mo; / can't say / ever dbl said, and
don't want TO, either. We have had
.nough Of that sort OF thing, and am
lot going to have any more agonies over
very article we eat"
l had again put my foot down. But II
vas too late. had even forbidden my
Inalyist, under penalty of forfeiture of his
'ocket money for several months &c come,
cling US anything whatever about the
ood we eat or the drink we imbibe; but
he mischief was done l have lost my
onfidence in my fellowman, and still
more in my fellowman's productions.
nay try in an imperfect way TO protect
ur household, may give the strictest or
ers that none but the refinedest of sugar .
hall be admitted into our store cupboard:
ut who is TO answer for the man wLo
makes the jam and the marmalade, or the
tber man who makes the Madeira cakes
nd the three-cornered tartsl And how
luch is there that we have not heardy
ave silenced my analysts lips, 1t is true;
ut there Is also q language OF the eyes, and
ill more, a language of the nose, and
hen, with q scornful tip-t tilt Of the
liter, he says, @No, thank you" to any
hing, my appetite is destroyed for that
zeal This Is mordid, no doubt am :
ute aware that it is morbid, but can't =
eip it. am like Governor Sancho in the
land of Barataria; my choicest dishes /, ,
re whisked away from me-or rendered
luseous, which is as bad-at the bidding
a grim being who calls himself AnaIyt- =
al Science, He may not know anything a
bout 1t; or he may be lying. but mean '
lille he has spoiled my appetite, and !,
Ie dish may go away untasted for me.
Truly, a little knowledge is dangerous
ing. The moral of my painful story is a
'yiOus | intend to bring up the rest of 7
y family, If possible, to occupations in . =
diving no knowledge whatever y
agazine.