The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-08-23
SOME GOODS WILL LOOK SICK.
Fancy Brands Will Give Place to
Plain Statements of What Pack
ages Actually Contain.

Much of the artificial celery and
beauty Of foods will disappear under
the new pure food laws of Iowa and the
nation which are now in force. All
edible and medicinal goods bought by
retailers from this day forth must con-
form to laws which demand that a spade
be called spade, and that all artificial
materials must be removed from food
stuffs. The law doesn't injure the
dealer; it takes some of the sentiment
out of shopping. 1t stops the sale of
highly colored stuffs and puts foods
back on the basis nature intended they
should be put. Above all, it makes the
manufacturer tell the buyer what he
is getting for his money. 1t stops some
importations and helps the home market
to that extent.
Condensed cream is to be CONDENSED
milk" "sap" syrup will suddenly become
scarce; new impromptu labels will be
placed upon many imported goods by
the jobbers, and altogether much inge-
nuity will be in evidence in the effort to
change gracefully from advertising
bombast to statement Of fact.
Hamburger" has suddenly assumed
an unusually dull color in some shops.
Gray looking bologna is offered in place
OF the former brilliant and fresh looking
article. Some of the shops have been
wise enough to change ahead of the
times, SO as to avoid the embarrassing
drop from scarlet to dull red.
Personalities such as "Freezeine"
have been generally used in sausage
and hamburger here. Not in quantities
that were at all injurious, but the law
takes no recognizance of quantity, a
fact that will cause the grocers i'm
measurable grief before the year is
over.
Grandmother smoked the ham and
bacon, but the modern packer gets his
smoke from bottle, so clever are we
moderns. And now the bottle of smoke
is to drop out of sight and bring back
the good old chimney smoke.
The fact that the law takes no cog
nizance of the quantity of poison in
food, but only Of it's presence, is the
snag that has caught the foreign goods.
Maraschino cherries, red, white and
blue, must disappear. These things
are bleached and practically dyed to
suit the fancy of the consumer.
The epicure who formerly carried
home an expensive can of mushrooms
with foreign reading and the clerk S
best wishes will be surprised today to
ynd the cheaper grades labeled "stems
and pieces" a fact learned by opening
the can.
One of the most important articles
affected is French peas.
The new law will be boon to Iowa
farmers, where good peas are grown
The foreign pea has been used for many
years, bearing the label "artificially
colored.' Now they must change their
tactics and send an uncolored pea here
or not at all. 1t does not matter that
the coloring matter has no dangerous
effect on the community the coloring
is of a poisonous nature and the quantity
matters not. All the grocers welcome
this change, with the possible exception
of a few whose evident interest lies in
the other quarter. The sale of olive oil
: will be but little affected. The best
brands are pure and the limitations have
. been gradually changing to label tina,
, will permit the sale of their goods
Cottonseed oil must be marked as such
, and salad dressings must bear label
stating the nature of the contents.
. The general practice of adding sugar
to peas, corn and tomatoes must be stat
ed IN the future and sacharine mus
be eliminated.
Nearly all tomatoes are now colored
But from today they will begin to TOOL
sick. Canned soups, catsups sauce.
and preserves must use RIO coloring mat
ter sSeleterious to health, thus cutting
outeochineal, the time honored aid o
the -apure fruit" man. Olives must b
put up naturally. Only the smaller
: poor grades are colored, but this is t.
be stopped.
But the old joke of corn starch suga
will go out of existence, for sugar mus
now be at least sweet.
Just what solution the grocers will
find for the old gag about Mocha an,
, Java for % cents pound it is Difficult
to say But new name must be use<
or statistics juggled to correspond t.
, the enormous amount of Java now sup
} posed to be grown on little territor,
not big enough to support in storeIlouse
all the coffee supposed to be grow
there.
The old offer of 1000 for alum foune
in a certain baking powder is proved tx
have been made by an excellent poker
player, for the concern now print.