The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-07
Santa Claus is Here to Greet Children
MODERN FOOD IGNORANCE

conducted by the Rockefeller Institute. The bacteriologists found that the milk was not only adulterated and polluted, but actually traced 300 outbreaks of epi- demic diseases to impure milk.
 Some months ago an analysis of the milk furnished the patients of Chicago hospital showed formaiin in sufficient quantities to cause or at least hasten the death of sick persons. It seemed that the nurse and patients had complained of tho milk. and had declared upon numerous occasions that It tasted funny Forma- lin is a chemical used in hospitals for fumigating purposes because of its deadly character. Because 1t will keep milk from turning sour however. milk dealers have been known to use it ex- tensively, especially in milk supplied to public institutions
 
 "Just as astounding Is a statement made by the assistant food commissioner of Illinois, that he had located four slaught erhouses for horses, mules and donkeys in Chicago. Real beef Is never handled in these places, he said. but their delivery wagons run to markets, , restaurants and free lunch saloons with great regularity. As healthy horses, mules and donkeys are too valuable to be worked up into Hamburger steaks and sausages. only the diseased or dis abled ones are killed; even horses that have glanders. Filthy butter. absolutely unfit for use, Is collected in this city and shipped to the woods, where 1t Is re- manufactured and sent back to Chicago and sold as pure butter. Fermented and rotten tomatoes are manufactured Into catsur and sold by leading houses as pure
 The little child calls for the largest piece of candy that her penny will buy. orA IAr yav,km I.A 1AoR of bread she can get for the money. consequently the manufacturers study how to produce the largest piece of can dy and the largest loaf of bread at the smallest expense. The investigations of the Illinois pure food commission show that chemicals injurious to health are freely used in Chicago soda water.
 "A prominent grocer informs me that 1t is impossible to sell genuine maple syrup in many parts of the country, for the reason that it is so different from that which the public has been educated to believe to be the pure article. More Vermont maple sugar is manufactured in Iowa in a season than the maple trees of Vermont could produce in years. But that is not all. There seems to be no end to the list of adu1terated foods American tables are now supplied with butter sweetened or kept sweet by bor- acic acid and chemically coiored: jam,
 
 acquainted with the fruit are made wholly of gelatin. glucose, with chemi- cal coloring and flavor; tea is made by mixing oxide of iron with tea dust and rolled by means of starch into pellets re- sembling the genuine tea; chemical vine- gar, catsup and table sauces contain ing no vegetable matter whatever; pickles made green by a preparation of copper; wines sweetened by glucose; beers rank with salicylic acid; whiskies diluted with proof spirits and artificial ly beaded with sulphuric acid and smoothed with olive oil.
 'The Illinois state inspectors had their attention called to a preparation of glu- cose which was masquerading under the label Pure Clover Honey In forbidding US sale the inspectors acted clearly with In their statutory powers. and set an ex- ample that should be followed in every state that Is fortunate enough to have system of inspection. The glucose that was being sold as Pure Clover Honey is probably not harmful, or child mortality would have increased at an alarming rate in this country during the last de- cade, Tor 1t now enters largely into the manufacture of candy and many forms of sweet meats. jellies and preserved fruits. But the food inspectors were justified in forbidding the sale of glucose honey for