The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-03-21

follows: "Acide malique, tartre, aIco-
hol, ether antique, glucine."
The butterine which went with the |
biscuits looked Hike the genuine golden
yellow product Of the COW and the dai- |
ry maid Professor Stillman held up q
jar of it before the biscuits came to the |
| table and explained that it would have
to be kept out of the sun or it would |
fade white. 1t was compounded Of |
''oleo" oil, certain refined lard, the |
artificial milk mentioned above and |
''carrotine," a yellow coloring distilled |
from carrots. And so on down the line. |
The banana sherbet was complicated. |
| Professor Stillman admitted that he |
| had some tSouble with that. There |
were eight ingredients, including five |
kinds of others. all blended to produce
the exact flavor and smell of bananas.
Perhaps the raspberry jelly, which |
came on with the ptarmigan, was as
! good an imitation as any other. This
was the theme of one of the lectures |
which the professor reeled off with !
| every course.
Il sent my boy to the grocery store
to get pound of their cheapest rasp |
berry jelly" he said. THE boy brought
back something which tasted and look
ed like raspberry jelly, but which never
saw a berry, and it cost II cents. Mrs.
StiIlman figured out for me that the
cheapest possible original cost for rasp-
berry jelly would be 80 cents a pound.
That would be the price of the materi-
ais, leaving out the cost of labor and
profits.
"Now, that imitation raspberry jelly
was made of apple pulp left after the
cider was pressed out, Of glucose,
which is simply a sweetening made
from cornstalks instead of cane, and
of few other materials. 1t is just as
nourishing. 1t is true that it does not
appeal to the educated palate as does
the real thing, but it brings the luxury
of raspberry jelly within the reach OF
poor people who cannot afford the real
thing There's only one harm in it; the
manufacturers should be made to label
it as imitation and not as the real
thing"
When the wine came on Mr.. Howell
was moved to tell the tale of the Scot
who returned to his native land and
gave a great banquet to the town ia
Tiers. Three reporters came and sat in
the outside room, waiting for the
speeches. The great man sent them out
champagne-fve bottles in alias their
needs demanded it. And at last he sent
a waiter to ask how they were getting
on.
'They say they're dom fine" the
waiter reported, 'but that meeneral
water ye're a-sendin' them is some
what feelin'."
81 could have made champagne for
you" interrupted Professor Stillman,
breaking in, ''but 1 thought ia give
you the luxury of champagne which Is
supposed to be real. 1 won't vouch for
it Gentlemen, your health"
On the sideboard were a lot Of test
tubes and an array of bottles like the
shelf behind the counter in a drug
store. On one of his flying trips to the
serving room Professor Stillman pick
ed up one Of these bottles-it held
kind of a white Greenland said
"This is an artificial egg, same con-
stftuent parts exactly, even to the oil"
A powder in another bottle was the
artificial milk which figured in the
making Of the synthetic biscuits.
Now and then he would turn a screw
or let out pin in the apparatus which
was dfstilling creme de menthe In the
corner. He let the company smell the
result. a perfectly clear liquid 1t had
ali the smell Of creme de menthe. He
explained that before he served It he
would mix in drop of green anime
dive to give It the true green color. And
then the spectators had another syn
thetie cocktail and departed. One Of
them carried quite naturally an artih-
cial sosh. The artificial cocktail Is Of
wondrous natural potency.
This one spectator insisted on stop
ping IN the barroom of the Aston be-
cause, he said, he wanted real drink.
And, having delivered his order, he
spoke as follows to the bartender:
"Say! Look herei If an artificial egg
was hatched In a natural incubator
VIVA ia 'spose would happen, huh?
'Spose chickenN have glass eye an
wooden leg, huh? Poor little chicken
never know mothers love. Ole chem
teal professor r father and ole mechan-
zeal Incubator r mother. Singular state
affairs, huh?"