The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-24
ADULTERAT|ON OF
FOOD IN LONDON
Scorched Liver and Beans Are
Ground in Coffee
HOUSEWIVES HORRIFIED
RoOsevelt's Visit to Avon
Calls Attention Anew to the Grow
Ing Popularity of Shake
speare's Birthplace
HOUSEWIVES HORRIFIED
BY PAUL LAMBETH

BY PAUL LAMBETH
London. June Especial. )-London Is
now undergoing a sensation somewhat
similar to that experienced by the United
States at the time of the embalmed beef
exposure. and for very similar reasons.
1t all came from the Pure Food exhibit
ton in Horticultural halb Westminster.
Articles of common household use, pur-
chased in the open market, had been ana
lyzed, and some of the most amazing
authorizations were shown.
One Of the most peculiar and perhaps
disgusting of them all Il the adulteration
o. coffee. Not only were beans, peas and
cbestnuts used, but scored liver ground
fine, had been added. presumably to give
the beverage body.
Mortified housewives gathered around
large tables loaded with food receptions
table seven-pound pots of raspberry and
currant jam. Around the pot were ar
ranged the ingredients that were to be
found In the jam. which consisted of tur-
nips, mangei-wurzels, seaweed, sawdust
for pips, refuse from the cider press.
with red and yellow ochres to color. A
large bottle of pickles. about seven
pounds in weight. was made of sturnps
of caulihower and cabbage picked In
acetic acid instead of vinegar. Substi-
tutes for bread were arranged around an
ordinary cottage loaf, and consisted of
peas, beans and potatoes, instead Of
wheat -four, the bloom being given to the
leaf before baking by busting with chalk
Milk was shown dyed to slook like a deep
cream with analine dye.
An expert explained some methods by
which tea is faxed in China. After the
tea has been once used the leaves are faced
with plumbago and magnetic oxide of
iron and dried. Some sausages were
shown, dyed to give them an attractive
appearance, while cheap fish had been
dried and dyed yellow to be sold as
Scotch smoked paddock.
One table bore the label, What the
Children Eat" Poisonous-looking sweets
are made with glue and size. coal-tar be-
ing used to color. The chief danger lies
In the favoring. nitrate Of ethyl being
used as pineapple, valerianate of amyl
as apple, and a pear favoring is induced
by treating rotten cheese with sulphurfc
acid and bichromate of potash The
lQuorice sweets so favored In poor quar-
tiers are colored with lampblack, thick
ened with chalk and starch. and stifened
with patent size Boot polshes and
printers ink are made with the same
dyes as are used in these cheap sweets"
the expert said.
The pilgrimage of former President
Roosevelt to Stratford- on-Avon the other
day calls attention to the growing popu-
larity of Shakespeare's birthplace as Il
shrine which attracts pilgrims from the
four corners of the earth. During the
past year no less than $1,000 visitors were
registered at the Shakespeare house, and
there Is hardly a civilized nation on the
face Of the earth which is not repre-
scented.
When the royal commission on the d.
vorce laws reassembled at Winchester
house after a two months recess some In
teresting evidence was given by witness
es, and one or two novel suggestions
were made One of these was that wo-
men should sit on divorce juries to deter
men from applying for dlssolution OF
marriage, and another was that wives
should be paid wages. 1t was also sug-
gested that 1t should be made compulsory
for everybody to be married at regis
try office.
A Liverpool Robinson Crusoe has just
been returned to the land Of his BIRTH
Thirty-three years ago Harry Brewer.
then boy of II. ran away from bis home
and went to sea as cabin boy aboard
tiny sailing vessel bound for the Pa
cific. Now he IL returning home wealthy,
hoping perchance to And younger broth
e- and sister alive whom he vaguely re-
members, as tiny children. All these long
hA nat of
the Island of Honolulu, speaking their
language and living their life. supporting
himself in various ways, until now he has
forgotten his mother tongue almost en-
tirely. The art of writing English he
curiously enough, has not forgotten. 1t
is his fixed intention, after visiting tho
lend of his birth, and after travelling
around seeing the world which he left
90 long ago, In years time to return
to the Pacific and spend the rest Of his
life among the people of his heart
with the increase of the white popula-
ton of the island as the years went by
he. In company with his adopted peo-
p]e. moved farther back into the interior.
He consequently had very little inter-
course with the whites. A year ago,
finding that he hadg altered together
enough to allow him to live In comfott
for the rest of his life without working.
he became filled with desire to revisit
the land which he so vaguely remembered
az a boy. Without wasting any more
time he made arrangements to leave the
land of his adoption for a time and visit
England. A few months ago he took
ship for San Francisco. then Travelled by
tyain-for the first time In his life-to
Vancouver. From that city he went d.
rect to Montreal by the Canadian Pacific
and took steamer for Liverpool.
There is one not unimportant section OF
the population Of England which profits
by the Kings death. The Lancashire
master cotton spinners HAD decided to
make a general reduction Of per cent In
wages, but they have decided now, In
view Of the Kings death. to postpone the
reduction for three months and are hope
ful that at that time the reduction will
have ceased to be necessary.
Presiding at the 106th annual meeting
of the British and Foreign Bible society.
the Marquis of Northampton remarked
that the time was not far distant whom
they might see the society's colporteurs
flying through the air and dropping Tes--
taments on the unexplored regions Of the
globe.
The Harrowgate town council has de-
cided to bar goats grazing on the Stray.
A councillor said the animals had proved
a nuisance, and had even eaten grave
stones. The vicar of Christ church also
give the goats q bad character.
Az an inquest at Wivenhoe on Monday