The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-30
ADULTERANTS SHOWN
Pure Food Exhibit Is Educational to
Many Pink-Tea Women.

The red luncheon, the pink tea and
the green dinner are responsible for
many of the food authorizations. In
their desire to carry a color scheme thru
a menu women have encouraged the
manufacturers to change the color of
havoc generally in the vegetable world.
The pure food exhibit in the old capitol
shows big table lined with bottles
of coloring matters and preservatives
which are found in popular brands of
foods
Beside the bottles hang charts COW
cred with bits Of colored linen; The
of them were dipped in catsup, others
in chilli sauce or favoring extracts, and
they now rival the rainbow in colors.
"You can easily tell if the coloring
matter in a manufactured food is veg
etable or mineral,' explained Mrs.
Walter McNab Miller of Columbia. Mo-,
who is chairman of the. pure food COM
mittee and in charge of the exhibition
"for a vegetable dye will wash out,
but mineral stain is fast color.'
Mrs. Miuer's enthusiasm is con
tagious, and she is fast arOusing in the
minds Of the many visitors suspicion
of favorite brands and a determination
for further knowledge which, If it is
R eas h is xap ust what the pure
Mrs. Miller's interest in pure food
began fifteen years ago, when she was
in San Francisco and tried to find pure
milk for her baby, who. by the way,
is now a sturdy Shattuck cadet. She
enlisted other women in her efforts.
Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Stetson was
one, and thru their work San francis
co passed her first pure milk, ordinance;
Mrs. Miller had all the statistics and
facts at her tongue end, for her hus-
band is a professor of pathology in the
Missouri state university, and IS as
pure food as his wife,
It was expected that every state IN
the union would be represented In this
showing of adulterated foods, but the
food inspector from North Dakota wrote
that he had not been able to find enough
in his state to make anything Of q: show
inc. At the close Of the biennial the
exhibit will be sent to the states where
the women's clubs will make strons
effort to have a pure food law passed
by the legislature. Missouri, Califor
MIA, West Virginia and Delaware are
among the number.
The tables are filled with bottles, thu
cases that line the walls hold mor'
bottles, specimens Of blackberry Jan
that never saw a blackberry. curren
| Jelly CnaC never naQ current near IL
but is a rare combina ton of apple pulp
salycilic acid and other compounds. TIL
authorizations Of olive and cottonsee,
oil are proved to be more expensive thai
the real article, 50 that the woman VIII
buys them is cheated twice. The drug
and milk authorizations have places b,
themselves. and are of sinister omen
for they strike at babies and invahds
whose vitality is too low to make
fight against the poisons. A milk ex
hibit which serves as a model OF purit
and cleanliness is from a Minneapoli
dairy. Another Minneapolis exhibi
shows the transformation of wheat int
-four that is unmixed with adultera
DR.. Melvin, chief of the bureau O
animal industry in Washington, ha
sent an exhibition which c]amors fo
| model abattoirs and state as we'll a
Interstate meat inspection. It show
all the diseases that can be communj
Gated from animal to man thru the me
dunn of meat, and will make many
housewife open her eyes. =
The water display shows by picture
, and figures how a citv's water is COZ
-taminated, and also how one municips
league made a brave fight for pur
, water and won it.
The pure food committee does nc
make its report to the biennial unit
the last day of the convention, bu
every afternoon there will be informs
talks in the exhibition rooms, whic
will be open until the close of the b
ennial. = =