Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1910-08-12
THE CHILDREN'S FRIEND
II. L. Harris OF New York De-
tends The Ice Cream Cones
SAYS THEY ARE HARMLESS
Contain No Substance Injurious To The
System

That the Capital goes everyw here
and is read by people all over the
world, on land and at sea, goes with
out saying, but that the little home
paper contains items of interest to
public officials in the great metrop-
oils, New York City, the follow
ing letter received at this office
this m morning under date of August
IL, 1910, from II. l.. Harris, pub
licist, 100 William street, New York
City, bears witnesslf:
New York, August IL, 19l 0.
To the Editor of the Capital
Sir | was interested in reading in
your July 28th issue an article in ref
erence TO Ice Cream Cones being
condemned by the Pure Food off
cias on account of them containing
so called injurious substances such as
saccharin and boraX
The cones in question were made
with flour, eggs, sugar, saccharln
and borax The quantity of saccharin
used was one to 1000 parts. (The
definition of saccharin shows it to be
a white crystalline compound de-
rived from toluene, a constituent of
coal-tar. 1t is 500 times sweeter
than cane sugar, and finds use as a
sweetening agent, especially for per-
sons who cannot eat sugar, owing to
disease, as diabetes.) This clearly
demonstrates the fact that saccharin
is less injurious to the human system
than sugar The quantity of borax
-, he
from fermenting, while exposed to a
moist atmosphere, was one to 1000
pounds of flour, eggs and sugar.
There is not a scientist in the coun-
try who could prove that such infini
tesimal amounts of saccharin and
boraX could produce the slightest in
jury to the human system. Ice
cream eaten from cones preserved
with an infinitesimal amount of boraX
or boric acid is far more healthful
than ice cream served in small glasses
and licked out by the consumer or
ice cream served on plates and eaten
with a spoon The small glasses and
dishes were never thoroughly cleansed
and many of them were cracked and
chipped. thus creating conditions suit
able for the propagation of disease
germs.
In reference to boraX being an in
furious substance. it is a we'll known
fact that England, which is one of the
most intelligent nations in the world,
orders cargoes of hams. shoulders and
bacon preserved with borax or boric
acid She also permits one-half of i
per cent of boric acid in butter and
one fourth of per cent. in cream.
BY so doing the meat is not saturated
with brine, the butter is not loaded
with salt and the cream is kept in a
sweet hygenic condition.
England has consumed borated foods
for twenty five years. If foods pre-
served with boron compounds were as
injurious as many Pure Food officials
| i'm the United States claim them to
be, the English nation would have
been wiped out of existence years ago
There are no scientific data TO
prove that either saccharin or borax
is injurious to the human system
when used on food. There is ample
scientific datum, however. that sugar
and salt are chemical substances
that should be used sparingly, other
wise nutrition an1 digestion are
greatly impaired and in many cases
of illness both sugar and salt are for
hidden in the dietary.
Very truly yours,
II. L. HARRIS.