The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-07-25
DANGER IN STALE FOOD.

Many cases of sickness and even of death from
cholera morbus are caused by eating stale vic
tuas, such as salads which have been kept over
for a day or two. In hot weather microbes be-
gin their work on any kind of food soon after 1t
is cooked, and the longer the food is kept the
more the microbes multiply and the worse the
food becomes.
Salads of all kinds ought to be eaten soon after
they are made or else not at all. They become
so dangerous in a few hours that animals refuse
to touch them, because their senses are better
guides to health than the senses of human
beings. Potato salads are especially dangerous
because the starch of which potatoes mainly
consist spoils very quickly. On this account
potatoes are employed in biological laboratories
to test the propagation of microbes.
When fruits cause cholera morbus the infect
ing microbe generally comes from the outside
of the fruit. There are no microbes inside of an
apple or peach that has an unbroken skin. The
microbe starts from the outside as soon as an
opening occurs in the fruit skin and soon cor
rupts the entire specimen. On this account no
apple, peach or other fruit should be even tasted
without first removing the skin. Apples picked
up in orchards are further liable to carry tape
worm germs If the skin is not carefully removed
before tasting.
The micrope which causes grapes to ferment
is not found within the pulp of the grape, but on
the outside of its skin. As soon as the juice OF
the grape is pressed out the ferment microbe
goes to work rapidly. Grapes are made health
Ter for ordinary eating by a moments contact
with boiling water to kill the ferment microbes
on the skin.
Wine and vine diseases are generally the re-
suit of parasite microbes on the outside OF the
grapes. The remedy for vineyard disease IS
generally new vineyard on new ground in
| new region, the cuttings coming from region
entirely free from disease. The dangerous mi
| crobe claims the same right to live and grow
| that man claims and the final result depends on
| the triumph of the smartest and the survival OF
| the fttest. -. ..,-
/ Aacreat Thing is- the CoAspaGR DID, tF3h
ever look upon the little phosphorus stick as an
| agent of civilization? Everywhere throughout
| the world is the ever-present match. That old
| myth of savages starting fires by rubbing two
| sticks together is we'll nigh lost art in these
days. Take down in Brazil, for instance. Con-
sui General Anderson, writing from Rio, de-
clares that even in the almost inaccessible por-
tions of the interior, where the semi-civilized
people are deprived of everything in the way Of
civilized supplies. yet there matches to light
the Ubiquitous cigarette or kindle the campfire.
There are, OF course. some peoples yet unac-
quainted with the match, but they are OF the
lowest stratum of civilization. Globe-trotters
have found the match to go hand In hand with
the first evidence Of civilization. And the
worlds output of matches is staggering in its
enormous aggregate. Thousands and thousands
of acres of forest go down before the axeman
each year. to be manufactured into matches. In
several countries match making (of the wood
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great many more nations reap goodly revenue
income each year from taxes on their manu-
facture.
Just for example, Brazil's output of matches
was 2O2 Ol, 400 boxes In 1907. from which the gov
eminent derived revenue of 81. 21s.3Sl in taxes.
That tax alone amounts to over S1.5O for each
man, woman and child in the country.