The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-09-20
PURE FOOD SHOW DIVERSION
SOME or IT CAME IN MAKING
a PAPRIkA TEST.
Now Who Gould Have Put Those LarVR
In . Box That . woman Brought In
MIR. DriseoII Deseants on short
weights and Measures To the women.

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In q BoN ThAt q woman brought In
MIR. DriseoII Descants on shSr'
WEIGHTS and Measures To the women
The westfield Normal School chemists
who are resolving all sorts Of compound.
into their constituent elements at ths
Pure Food Show. were frightened nearly
out 81 their wits Yesterday afternoon
nv an innocent looking tin can labelled
-Paprika-
The paprika wasn't part OF the origi-
nal exhibit. A woman brought il In early
in the day and ask ed the girls please to
s"e what was tho matter with IL. because
il didn't lasts right Louise and Olive
and Agnes smoothed their laboratory
aprons. lighted their bunsen burners.
laid out their test tubes in rows and then
Olive unscrsw 81 the top OF the can.
OH abe shrieked. putting her hands
behind her hack Louise and Agnes
STOPPED simultaneously to pick up the
can. which had obeyed the laws Of grav-
ity. and sneszed violently as the scarlet
dust few into their faces. BY this time
Olive was able 10 speak
Keep away she gasped. They'll
get on you
WHAT demanded her cocientists.
Worms announced Olive dramati-
cally.
The effect was all she could have de-
sired
Prof. Lewis B. Allyn had 20 scoop Up
what had escaped from the can and clas-
sify the little white wriRgly crawling
things all by himself He said they were
the larva Of some beetle. and while ne
didn't suppose they had been put in there
deliberately for purposes OF adulteraton.
he considered their presence an evidence
Of excessive CarelesSneSs on the part Of
the paciers IL was genuine imported
paprika too.
Clement j Driscoll ~ the City Bureau
81 Weights and Measures told an audi
ence Of women who gathered in the con-
cert hall 20 hear him speak that fraudu-
lent S,aleS short vardEticks and false
bottom measures were prevalent in New
York city because 81 the carelessness Of
the housewives
Perhaps YOU don't like to be called
housewives" he said We'll change
the name 70 anything you please 50 long
a. YOU get some sense Of responsibility
about your marketing Your husbands
or brothers or sons give YOU money for
household eN0en-eS and you spend IL
wa~tefullv II hanks were "a careless
aS Won are about trust funds would
nave Ilnan'idl 'hahs III 'niS TOWN.
Don't let the grocer or the butcher
put his hand on the scale when he - weigh
ing YOUR butter or vonT steak. When
YOU get your things home weigh them
and II they don't come M 20
the standard don't 80 back and argue
with tho merchant about II That won't
DO n bit 81 good Come and tell us ali out
~ and We iii SEQ that YOU have justice.
You have q Mayor who Is determined
that every department IN this city shall
be run for the benefit Of the citizens.
and am going - 80" that my Office comes
up - his requirements
Tho New York civ Mothers Club will
take charge of the afternoon session To-
day Among the speakers will be the
Rev Mabel MacCov Irwin. DR. Josephine
Raker. DR. II ; Curtis, eN-secretary Of
the American Playground Association.
and DR. { Ward Champion. director Of
physical trai ming m the public schools.