The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1910-11-12
GOSSIP AT THE
Nations CAPITAL
Especial to the Silver State,

it is as much fraud on the public
to give an incorrect impression regard
ing the origin or place of production
OF an article for human consumption as
it is to give a wrong impression re.
garding the contents, nature, or com.
position of such an article. Foreign
governments have been cooperating
with the government of the United
States to prevent the misbrandinp and
incorrect labelling of food products
originating in those countries. France
has been very active in this respect.
and it is now illegal in France to
label as champagne any wine produced
outside of certain well defined boun
daries. A sparkling wine produced
elsewhere than in the legally defined
champagne country cannot legally be
sold as champagne, even though ex.
perts might declare that it possessed
all the qualities of wine so grown and
even was superior to them. The same
thing holds as regards cognae and it
is probable that similar regulations
will be adopted regarding certain
popular brands of cheese and other
things which the public associates
with trade names.
Lucea olive oil is another article
which those who have the right to
use that name wish to see protected
SO many inferior grades of olive oil
have been put ON the market as
Luccap that the name was fast
ceasing TO carry any weight. Olive oil
labeled "Lucca" has been found by
the pure food inspectors coming from
Greece and from Spain and from 9th
er places aside from Lucca itself.
Trying to Classify Coffee.
The government is now taking up
the question of requiring the numer-
Gus varieties Of coffee imported into
this country to be honestly labeled.
At meeting of the pure food board
held in Washington last week for the
purpose of taking testimony regarding
the labelling of Brazilian coffee, promi.
nent importers from New York testi-
fed that Brazilian coffee had been
shipped to Arabia in order that it
might be re-imported from Alden as
Mocha coffee, and they said that the
practice was still in force, although
as DIR. Wiley remarked, the dealers
did not always go to the trouble of
shipping coffee TO Arabia or re-export
before branding it as Mocha" or
SONIC HbiitI Didid ittpEuiNtd aS HuN
Arabian coffee.
After hearing testimony from ex-
perts present showing that the prac-
tiee has grown up of labelling coffee
with the name of the port from
whence it is shipped regardless of the
place of origin, Dr. Wiley stated that
an effort would be made to reform this
practice. which the importers admit
ted to be wrong, and that the matter
would be properly taken up in due
form with the government of Brazil
through the state department to the
end that the Brazilian coffees, which
form by far the greater part of the
coffee used in the United States,
should be sold under their proper
designation 1t developed that the ex-
isting practice is beneficial chiefly to
the trade, which has been getting
about cent pound more at whole
sale for great deal of the Bralizian
coffee on account of the system of
branding with which the trade is very
familiar, but concerning which the
public at large has been ignorant.
Band Concert for Three.
When the government of the district
decides to give a band concert it gives
il. OF course inelement weather
might cause it to be abandoned, but
IL it simply happens that there seems
to be no demand for concert, that rs
no reason in the estimation of the
authorities that have jurisdiction over
such matters why the concert should
not be given.
1t happened that a band concert
was scheduled for the speedway
couple of weeks ago. Ordinarily there
is a good turnout of citizens, 20 ENJOY
in carriages and motor ears, TO ENJOY
the excellent music which the bands
assigned to these concerts discourse
But as fate and the weather mar
would have it. a cold wave came dowI
from the cold Canadian country oi
somewhere else in the region of Arctic
cold and it struck Washington JUS
before the concert was scheduled. TIT
weather was not distressingly cold
but it was chilly and forbdding, an'
when the band struck up the frs
lively tune which foated moekinglN
on the frigid air, there were just thre
auditors who had braved the weathe
and came to listen. The band, appar
emily believing that others woul
come. continued the program, but n
more came, and the leader simply con
tnued the program to the melodiou
end with as much sangfroid as If h
had been performing to large and al
preciative audience.
Frivolous Maidens.
1t is gravely asserted by some o
the teachers, who made official con
plant to the principal of their sehoo
that the school girls of the capit'
are vain, frivilous and given t
primping during school hours to sue
an extent that not only their ow
studies suffer but the studies of I'll
other more serious pupils are di
turbed. One teacher stated that Il
girls carry "enormous hand bags
like young valises, as he expressed
: filed with toilet articles, and th
they cumber their desks with the
receptacles which continually fall {
and then the boys have to pick the
nm, Mt the dictates of their innate q,