Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-05-02
CONDEMNED IN missouri AND CON-
FaacAYEn m NEW v00k.

Ft3CATED m NEW y0Rk.
Judge Clarke OF 81 Louis has con-
victed and fined heavily . number Of
grocers for selling baking powders
containing alum.
The week before the Health Depart
ment OF New York seized a quantity
OF stun being sold for baking powder
which they found Was made from
alum mixed with ground rock, and
dumped It into the river.
The Health Authorities are thus
taking effective means TO prevent the
introduction into our markets OF In
1uricus substitutes tn place Of whole
some baking powders.
AZ alum costs only two cents
pound. there IL great ee01tsocn Tor
those manufacturers who make sub
stitutes and Imitation goods, to use
II. Alum baking powders can be de-
tected by the health authorities by
chemical analysis, but the ordinary
housekeeper, whose assistance In pro-
tecting the health Of the people is i'm
Dortant, cannot make chemical ex-
animation. She may easily know the
alum powders, however, from the fact
that they are sold at from ten 10
twenty cents for a pound can, or
that some prize-like 3 spoon or
glass. or piece of crockery, or wooden
ware-is given with the powder as an
inducement.
AS the people continue to realize the
Importance of this subject and con-
sumers insist on having baking pow.
der of established name and charac-
ter. and as the health authorities con-
tinue their vigorous crusades, the
alum danger will, it is hoped. finally
be driven from our homes.
Several beauty doctors from New
York are installed in fashionable
quarters in London, and are doing a
rushing business in preparing faded
damsels who desire to look charming
for the coronation festivities. Wrin.
kles are removed, sallow visages are
given the tint of youth, and to dull
eyes are impaired lovely brilliancy.
The beauty doctors promise to do all
this, and are shrewd enough to get
their pay in advance. ....#
1.-THE way to keep the price OF meat
within reasonable limits is for the
public to quit buying it," suggests Vic
tor Smith. LET us all try for two
weeks. We consume in fourteen days
over 500,000,000 pounds OF meat,
which we do not require as a physt
illogical necessity. Peas, beans, po.
tatoes, cabbage, onions, corn, whole
wheat bread, corn bread, some fruits
and plenty of water are all we need.
No one likes meat more than do, but
last year did without it for eight
months, and after the first week or
two did not yearn for it. Result-bet
Ter general health
1t is related that the only man who
ever got even with Cecil Rhodes in the
matter of personalities was a little
German clerk in the Government Office
at johannesburg. Rhodes on this oc.
casion had to stand in line, and he
didn't like it. He had not been used
to standing in line in South Africa or
anywhere else please attend to me
at once,' he said, II can't wait"
When your turn comes, mister"
mumbled the clerk. "Confound you,
sir; don't you know who I am? I'm
Rhodes" ooh, yes, knew that, but
that doesn't worry me-" was the un'
ruffled reply. IF you were in Cape
Town. I'd have you discharged in a
minute" roared the premier. Eyes,
have heard that they discharge PEG.
pie in Cape Town for doing their
duty" answered the clerk; ''but we
amt in Cape Town. This is repub'
lic,"