The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-09-30
PAPER BOTTLES.

quirer-Sun that an inquiry has come
to that city from Chicago looking to
the establishment in Columbus of a
plant for the manufacture of milk bot
ties. 1t tells US that these bottles,
holding one pint each. have been thor
oughly tested In New York by a COM
mittee which has charge of seven bu-
reaus for supplying milk to infants,
and the result has been the adoption
OF this bottle. They are made OF para
fined paper and are used only once.
when they are thrown away. Our CO.
lumbus contemporary adds:
This is one of it's highest recommen-
dations, as clean and sanitary milk Is
assured. The cost of the bottles In
which is less than the cost of the glass
bottle. when all the losses of breakage,
washing, freightage. etc. is taken into
have commented upon the paper bottle
The New Orleans States says that III
the paper bottle is cheaper than the
tary in every respect, 1t is safe to pre-
dict it's general adoption, because money
considerations always govern in trade
There may be objection to the aban-
Comment of the quart bottle, but IL the
quart size cannot be safely handled be-
cause Of the weight of its contents In
relation to the texture and rigidity of
the paper, the pint bottle will be adopt
ed for the milk of the distrib uting
business Householders can receive
tive bottles for one, and have the ad-
vantage of opportunity to keep half
the supply closed against contamina-
ton until there is a demand for its
use.
Here again is something new under
the sun, but we do not know that 1t
should cause any surprise, for the uses
to which paper can be put are SO va
ried and numerous that any new appli-
cation OF It is not a matter of wonder.
All of us know how common and pop
ular were the paper collars for men a
went out of use, but for a time they
were all the go. We refer to this
merely as one of the varied uses to
which paper material has been put of
late years. and If the material itself
were not so expensive, there is no
knowing what It could and would be
used for.
To say that paper milk bottles may
supply long-felt want would perhaps
not be putting II too strongly Many
times during the past few years we
have seen the positive statements from
physicians that much of the infant
mortality in the large cities is due to
unclean milk bottles We all know
how quickly milk will spoil and any
one who has had opportunity to notice
IT, knows that when a bottle of 1t is
emptied. there will be some OF the
fluid clinging to the sides and bottom
and 1t requires but a few hours for
that to reach a condition that will
render It virtually a poison to infants
OF course, a glass bottle can be thor
oughIy cleansed as soon as It Is emp
tied. but equally, Of course. this is not
always done. Cooks and nurses are
not always as careful and clearly as
they might be.
Unciean nursing bottles and fixtures
are responsible for much of the slaugh-
ter of the innocents that We read Of
and II to this is added the further
danger OF putting rotten milk into the
child's bottle we need not be sur
prlsed at the results. In the country
the danNer is small. partly because
fewer babies in proportion are arti-
fciaIly nursed. and partly because
most country mothers can get fresh
and pure cows milk If compelled to
use any. In the largo cities there IL
not only much more OF artificial nurs-