The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-05-26
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laid violent hands on our Camembert
cheeses. SO that today. he complains. one
can no longer be sure, when one is eat
ing what one believes To be a Camembert
cheese whether II is that or not--any
more that one can tell whether his eggs
are hen-laid his milk from a cow or a
patent artificial milk machine or his Pan
anna hat from that place or home hat
factory.
These are the days OF canned goods, re-
frigerated eatables and substitutes for
raw materials. Nothing much seems to
wholly true, anyway. We have fallen up
on parlous times. Inventive genius is ex-
tensively employed I'm initiating the old
familiar things. when IL might be about
the better business of getting up things
that are new. Maybe the imitation Is
sometimes as good. or better. than the
real article That doesn't furnish an ev-
cuse for foisting II upon us, unbeknownst.
But while we have come to expect that
the common. or garden, varieties OF our
food shall be clouded with suspicion, we
never thought that impious hands would
be laid upon so choice product OF art
and nature as our Camembert cheeses.
There is evidently no limit to the ingen-
uity that greed OF gain provokes Fortu-
you will not be fooled. And IL you do not
know IL. you are entitled to no sympathy.
Its piquant flavor. its peculiarly soft.
creamy consistency when ripe" are not
10 be easily initiated with entire success.
But even the lover of Camembert cannot
know about IL until he has examined and
tasted IL, and, meanwhile. he is like to
the home made article because IL Is put
up i'm a package that would defy examin-
ation-while, as you pay the real price,
all suspicion is lulled
Probably, the substitute is only offered
now, i'm these days when IL is unsafe to
import the real article because of it's pc
culiar sensitiveness TO hot weather. But
IL IL Is tolerated, we shall soon have IT
handed out TO US all the year around.
A little harmless II weighty. sand In the
sugar used TO be about the limit of fraudu
lent food offerings.
Nowadays. though one can never be
sure and. indeed, one only asks humbiy
enough that the substitute article OF food
be not Injurious TO health.
We havt long become accustomed 10
what are called navel oranges, for In
stance, because they are wholesome and
juicy and in every quality OF flavor and
and tenderness they seem 10 be equal TO
real oranges. People regarded them with
suspicion. at first, because the easily dis
covered absence OF seeds I'm the navel
oranges suggested their origin. With all
the extraordinary progress of invention,
within the past decade or so, IL has been
found impossible 10 design an orange
making machine that shall insert and fx
the seeds naturally in the manufactured
article.
Otherwise, the navel orange Is a per-
feet imitation OF the fruit that grows on
a th.. at4N1 fAf Inv "a.
ton is successful in producing and insert
ing i'm the artificial fruit plausible imita-
tion OF the natural seeds, orange groves
will become a thing Of the past, since
sSt last scruples OF the lovers OF fruit,
who now insists on the grown article. Will
be largely overcome-or. at all events, IL
will not be so easy. as IL new is, to dls-
tinguish the difference.
1t is a curious thing about artificial
cucumbers. by the way, that the diff
ficulty that the manufacturers or arti-
fetal oranges have. so far. been unable
10 overcome 10 perfect their product,
have been successfully met in the manu-
facture of cucumbers.
A friend of mine. who is interested In
he cucumber industry, described 10 me,
recently. the process used i'm the better
grades and IL is certainly highly inge-
tically impossible to distinguish the
manufactured cucumber from the Gu
cumber grown on the vines, by any APP
parent difference i'm structure. or the ar
rangement or character Of seeds as dis
played upon cutting open. Only by
bite Of the seed may the substitute be
betrayed. a certain hardness and dry
ness being perceptible i'm the manufac-
tured cucumber by contrast TO the
slightly watery and less brittle charac
teristcs of the seed of the grown GU
cumber.
Ny friend explained TO me that IL Is
easier TO solve the difficulty in the mat
ter of manufactured cucumbers than I'm
oranges because in the former no thick
skin is required, the effect Of the Gu
cumber's delicate rhind being accentably
produced by a thin coating OF green var
nish, before the application of which the
seeds are forced through and into their
place under mechanical pressure, after
which the varnish is applied. filling In
and concealing the small holes made by
the process.
After all. while IL is pardonable TO
glory In the accomplishments OF inven-
tive genius, l grieve to reflect upon the
quantities of misplaced confidence that
such triumphs are often responsible for
DAN III Low.