Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-27
PRETTY CoLORINGs MUST GO.
The New Food Law Will Show Things z Up in Natural Style.


 Washington, D. C.. Oct 27.-An epoch in the food supplies of Ameri- cans will be marked by New Years day, 1901. On that date the pure
 food law will become effective. It practically, in many respects, will revolutionize the preparation of food stuffs intended for sale in this coun- try. Appearances of foods and kinds of foods that all of us have been ac- customed to in the past ether will pass out of existence or will be so changed as to be almost unrecogniza- ble.
 Under the new law and under the regulations which have been adopted to make 1t effective, the lovely color- ings which heretofore have been used to make various foods and delicacies particularly attractive will be elim- mated from all food products. No chemical dyes-usually they have been aliline-will be permitted in the preparation of foods and no sub stance may be employed to improve the flavor or tho appearance of any foods that is considered by the agri- cultural department experts to be deleterious to health. r
 Heretofore, the colorings of foods has been an art studied to an extent even greater than the heafthfulness of the product. The chemist has been able to make any old kind of refuse appear luscious or palatable. vegeta- bles. particularly peas. were made to look as if they had just come from the pods. although they may have been canned for months. Meats of various kinds were given a bright red color that lent a most appetizlng appearance to them. Tomatoes were colored SO that when the can con- taining them was opened they looked as they had just been plucked from the vines. As a matter of fact. the tomatoes which are canned. for the most part are picked when green. They then are ripened in the dark and painted in course of preparation with aniline dyes that give them the beautiful color that makes them tempting. The brilliantly colored Marashino cherry. that one has gulped so often from the bottom of a cocktail. will pass out of existence and in It's place. perhaps. will be a dull looking cherry that nobody would think twice about fiavoring a drink with.
 Tomato catsup will fade in color and the brightly colored canned bacon will cease to appear to the eye. t.. @n. h.. fore. but they will be sourer. In fact. all of the highly decorated food stu1s will disappear forever and in their place will be similar stuffs that may not look So appetizing. but will taste better.
 Many little articles which the housewife has been accustomed to order from the grocery will be diff ferent after January 1ss- No longer will she get picnic ham" made of refuse pork and beef: "potted chick en" will be real chicken. ff it can be bought at all. and not stale veal: no more glucose maple syrup" vfIl be on the market: and the olive oil vtli not be cotton-seed oil
 Less than twenty-five per cent of the Mocha and Jsve" coffee sold In this country Is vhat 1t purports to be when one buys coffee he viII get Brazilian or Mexican cosee. | which Will taste just a xood as the 1 former Mocha and Java"
 rt is said that the prospect of the l rfrfd eusorcpaent of the pure food l already hss czusei one man to com nit suicide Not being able losgpr | so fool the people. ke concluded that l life vas rot vofth uvinG