Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-02-01

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ABSOLUTELY PURE

ach. When he makes laws regarding pure
food it is in the interest of particular Amer
lean pocket-books. to secure foreign mar
kets for American food products, without
scruple of conscience or one pang OF re-
greet for our great American dyspepsia
Thus home manufacturers impose upon US
what they will for us to- cat, ana tne ior-
the light of European food standards, emf
CRATES and does business at the sacriilce OF
our national stomach, which thus becomes
the prey of all the world.
Pure Food Movement.
If women will procure the agricultural
reports on Foods and Food Adulterants"
they will find amid a maze of technical de-
tail a fund of information to assist them in
learning what we eat and why pure food
movement is woman movement that every
housekeeper may help to realize by simply
serving her selfish interest in the matter.
After all, conditions of nutrtive food and
pure food have been secured, to perfect the
application of the science of nutrition, a
woman has need of the knowledge of one
more Science-that of sanitation-for eat
what you will, it will serve you to little
purpose in insanitary environment
Facts and figures in support of this state
ment are to be had in the-report of the de-
partment of labor in Housing the People"
/ don't mean to fiaunt the glory that is wo-
mans nor the greatness that is hers, at the
end OF the century in the face OF Commits
| sioner Wright's best endeavors, but If he
were to try cooperating In his reports on
| sanitary matters with a woman-my coming
chief of a household division, il you please
| whose experience and ability would deduce
from his statistics their practical bearing on
| every home, and point the responsibility de-
| volving upon housewives in the information
! they contain, the educational value of
| these reports might be redeemed from the
| natural dryness of statistics. and made pro-
ductive in the experience of the people.
Requires Iron Nerve.
| have not found any more fascinating and
profitable reading, nor any of more par
| ticular interest to women, than is to be had
| in Commissioner Wright's reports on the
Cost of Living, and the Housing of the Peo-
| pie. Yet fear nothing less than the iron
| nerve of newspaper woman would dare to
| attempt to dig through the awful form In
| which they are given to the public.
| 1t seems to me that the educational work
| undertaken by Urcle Sam in the general
| interest of the people should not be con-
| sidered fit for publication until it has been
| digested by middleman (or middle-wo-
| MANI, who is able to assimilate the fruits
of science, on the awful stones of which the
| average person chokes, and thus put into
general circulation a product of scientific
| thought and common experience which old
| folks will want, young folks will have. and
even the baby will cry for. Any other-the
| existing method of education seems to me
| class education-the education of class
whose intelligence equips them to educate
| themselves, which Is altogether at variance
| people by and for the people''-but that's
| CROUCH. This is getting too profound fol
the little childish noddle of
PAULINE PRY.