Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-07-16

Science
In the
Kitchen.

Science The microscope as a neces-
In the sary kitchen utensil for all
, Kitchen large establishments Is
urged In an illustrated ar
ticle in the August Popular Mechanics.
10 Is stated that the use OF such an in
strument In detecting adulteration In
various common food products requires
some amount OF knowledge, but this
Is readily gained with a little expert
ence. The characteristics of the diner
ent starch products, for Instance, under
a microscope with a magnlfying power
ranging from 80 TO 400 diameters are
easily learned. ITO the naked eye all
these starches appear as a fine white
pow der" says the bureau OF chem
istry. hut under the microscope grains
or granules are seen which vary more
or less In shape, size, rings. etc. In the
case Of potato starch, for example, the
grains are large with smooth oudines,
while rice starch has small grains with
angular outlines. Potato starch adult
terated with cornstarch can be easily
detected. az the grains Of the latter
have an angular form. In the case OF
spices, most OF the substances used for
authorizations have a structure very
different from the genuine articles"
Also, distinctions are pointed out in
other articles OF food, commonly adul-
terated.
Business No state in the Union has
Replaciug more decislvely shown the
Politics. change from a polltlca 70
a business regime In civic
affairs than Michigan during the past
two years, and especially during the
past twelve months. Detroit Is the
greatest automobile manufacturing city
In the world, and millions of dollars OF
the automobile capital Is now finding
It's way TO the smaller towns Of the
state a few years ago Flint was what
Is ordinarily known as dead town,
with 10000 people. and the usual po-
litical machine. Today II has 10000 peo-
pie, and others are coming IN so rapid
~ that tents have been used 10 live In,
Lansing. Battle Creek, Owosso and
many other small places are booming
In the same way. and so much bigger
and brighter spots on the map have
they become that the man with capital
and new ideas hears them long before
he sees them, and sets his financial
boat In their direction. other states
come close after Michigan. seventy
two new business mems organizations
were formed In Texas during 1903;
thirty-three in Minnesota, seventeen IN
Wisconsin, twenty seven In OHIO, ana
over sixty In Michigan. Striking mod
est average from these Ave states, u IL
quite safe to say that at least one
thousand new organizations made up
of business men have been created IN
the United states within the last year.
There is food for much thought In this
combined and well-directed movement
of the business men Of the country, and
tho overwhelming part II is bound 70
play in the near political AFFAIRS or the
oliver Curwood In tine
July Book Keeper.
Churches Signs multiply that the
churches
Workers feeling the Inconsistency
nlris+IH... or longer remaining
silent orilnactive In Facing industrial
conditions which are Incompatible
with the ideals OF religion. Individual
ministers have for several years
taken very advanced positions. with
more or less influence upon their COM
munities I'm proportion as they were
able to get their churches to stand
with them. However brave, and
however much needed the protests OF
these individual voices were, the
fact remains that each OF the men
who raised only protest faded away |
almost as soon az his voice had de- |
lverad its protest unless he engaged |
with others in some constructive,
practical effort TO realize his ideals I'm |
actual human relationship. This by no |
means proves that they were wrong |
or that the church or the commune |
ty which ignored them was right But
Il Is a great sight. whatever becomes 1
Of them. TO see such men as George |
r. Lunn stand out and take the step |
outside of the church, as he did at |
schenectady; or 10 take the stand |
within the church as Percy Grant I
and Alexander Irvine have so long |
held together in the Church OF the |
Ascension, New York. Whether the |
Peoples Church outlasts the other |
churches OF Schenectady or not, or |
or not II proves Itself the |
fittest to survive. IL may yet find It's |
life by losing u In them. Whether or |
not the Sunday evening preacher
and the "afterme Getting" find and d. |
rect succession in the Protestant |
Episcopal churches, the industrial |
discomfort OF Jew and GENTLE has Mt
least found a tolerant hearing and |
sympathetic welcome within ono |
Christian church-Prof Graham |
Taylor in The Survey.
I read some time ago a
Equal lea1et sent out by some
Suffrage. good and cultured women |
presenting a protest
against woman suffrage. one of the
advanced was that but a
small proportion Of the women vote |
In those states where they have been |
given the right to vote This. as I
have observed the actual practise, Is an |
error. / think a remarkably large pro- |
portion Of the women vote when you |
take into consideration, FIRST, that II is