The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-09

been fighting the battle for pure food. Many a forceful speech Mrs. Nathan has driven home in the cause of dy- ing babies and the puny children of the poor in cities, half starved and poisoned through and through by the adulterated cheap goods manufactured for them by gentlemen of hfgn finan- ciaI standing. Mrs. Nathan Is bril- liant and witty speaker. At ban auet memorable in New York she was unexpectedly called on for speech. She talked awhile, then amid loud ap- pIause and cries of Go on! Go onl" she stopped, saying she could nave done much better as an after dinner orator If she had only had trousers pockets to put her hands into While she talked!
 Miss Alice Lakey Is the special agent employed by the Consumers league 70 go ~mong the people and by means of c5ject lectures show them what they daily eat under the delusion that they are taking nourishing food. salicylic acid, chalk, bakeshop sweep lngs, formaldehyde. which is actual Ty the fluid used by undertakers to emblam dead bodies; aniline dyes, po- rax--these are some of the pleasant substances we swallow. As to borax in It's various compounds, the prospect is that an individual may get whole twenty mule borax team load into his insides If he lives long enough. | Not long ago a bachelor man who | felt lonely thought 1t would suggest i a girl around if he sent 10 the com fectioner's orders fifteen cents worth of ice cream. The brand of the mak- | CT Is one known and advertised all over the eastern States. The bachelor man could not eat all the cream he ordered--maybe he would have eaten | still less of it if he had known what h.. was made of The left over oeli- cacy remained in the plate all night and melted In the morning there was in the bottom of the plate n grew some substance that suggested the stun you pipeclay your white shoes with. Perhap 1t was cornstarch, per haps worse.
 As ghastly frauds as any are per petrated in cheap candies bought by children of the very poor. Miss Lakey found that a "cocoanut strawberry selling for cent. was glucose and anfiine dye, nothing else. United States government experts analyzed her wares for her. so there could be no mistake. If you buy cheap so lcalled "chocolate" creams the chances are much more than even that for
 the chocolate part of the coneoctior you are devouring coal rar, parafnn colored with lampblack. Nice to think of reallyl
 l And when 1t comes to jams and what our British brother calls
 "tinned" meatsi
 villianous compound of sulphuriS acid is advertised to preserve meats sound for weeks. Some time
 ago q few links of a popular brand fof sausage were subjected to analys'
 in the matter o ftheir entiicng color
 Enough aniline dye YVES round in then
 to color a pair of mans woolen stock
 ings bright red. Somehow shal
 never taste sausage again withou
 thinking of ca gag wooden socks. SC
 great Is the power of imaginative as
 sociation on the human mind.
 Our faithful government expert
 have also made critical examination O
 divers jams and pickles. The resul is that some of the jams and Jellie
 are found to haYs in them not !, trace of the fruit of winch they ar labeled to be the pure" representa- lives. Miss Lakey exhibits fin her Ice lures tiny square of outing flame coIored radiant crimson, purple, greel
 and yellow from the aniline dyes pu into the SO called fruit preparations
  claimed a woman who looked on tn , brilliant squares of cotton cloth. he
 she added in an awe stricken voice ; And are we all dyed inside iik
 thatT"
 ; Get rich quick? Of course they dc the manufacturers of these stuffi E and ride about in their automobile E like aristocrats. But when the Amer N lean mothers are once thorough
 aware of the manner in winch thei
 children are being slowly poisoned an
 starved by adulterated foods the will come retribution. Perhaps tn General Federation of Women's Club
 will demand and obtain that the mar ufacturers of these villianous allege eatables be sentenced to live for term of years on their own jam an
 sausaEes. with an admirlng publi
 watching the animals feed benin
 barsl
 Some of the States have found a immediate way to check the progres of this national dishonor by enactin stiff pure food laws. The great med trust have caught the situation yer quickly in such cases and sends int the pure food law States only mes products that are specially and hy gienically prepared
 H Meantime. if we cannot afford buy anything but cheap and mast
 food delicaeies let us live on homo
 made cornbread and fresh fruit.
 Eliza Archard Conner.