Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-04-25
EXPERIMENTS.
Compilations of Poison Food
Squad Turning Pink.
FREoKLEs AND BUMPS VANISH.

Pleasing Eject of n Mysterious Drug
Being Used In the Doctors Tests.
Rosy Hues on Cheeks of the Chem
Zeal Eaters Are the Envy of WASH
ingtOn Misses.
| DR.. Harvey W. Wiley continues to
guard the food experiments which he
is conducting with dozen or more
clerks in his department with the
greatest secrecy, under orders from
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, says
a Washington special dispatch to the
New York Herald. Nevertheless, as the
young men are not kept indoors all the
time, it is impossible to conceal any
effects which the poisoned food may
have upon the subjects of the expert
ments.
Although there have been no marked
changes in any of the young men so
far as health is concerned, it has de-
veloped within the last few days that
all who have been at the doctors table
are taking on delicate pink complex
ion which, it is said. would be the envy
of any young miss in the land. 1t is
not thought that this is due to the
borax Which has been given to the
young men in their food for the last
few months, but to some chemical in
gredient which has been mixed with
the food unknown to the subjects.
This change in the doctors boarders
caused some concern at first until a
thorough examination was made of all
of the young men and they were found
to be in a perfectly healthy condition.
The only admission that will be made
at the department is that all the drugs
used in the food have up to date proved
absolutely harmless. The pink COM
plexion gives the men a healthy APP
pearance. such as would result from
good circulation of the blood brought
on by outdoor exercise No one en-
gagged in the experiments has been
able to determine what chemical has
produced this change, or if he has he
will not tell.
Its this way" said one of the board
ers. Some time ago we began MOTTO
ing that our compilations were getting
clearer. We didn't think anything
about 1t at first, but after awhile, when
it was seen that all of us were pink
checked, we began to believe that it
was some chemical they were putting
in our rations now. We don't know
exactly what it is, but we think that
they stopped the borax course some
time ago. Therefore it must be the
other drug.
There was one fellow at the OBJ
servation table who had a complexion
when he first came to the bureau like
one of the fifty-seven varieties. Now
his own girl wouldn't know him.. He
has a skin like the inside of straw
berry. Since the freckles and bumps
and things have disappeared from his
face he is mighty proud boarder, If
he does eat chemicals.
'Some of the boarders are worse
than others-or better, l guess you'd
say-but we all have rosy cheeks, and
no mistake. Why, were getting so
we're ashamed to go on the streets.
The girls turn around and look at us.
It's embarrassing.
DR.. Wiley says that he is not yet
ready to make his report on the first
stage of the experiments, known as the
borax stage. 1t is said, however, that
enough is known already to show that
the boraX has had no harmful result.
AS soon as the observations of the
first stage are completed DR.. Wiley
will make his report to Secretary Will
son, who will himself decide in what
form it shall be given to the public.