Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-11-21
WOMEN HEARD
OF PURE FOOD
Interesting Talk Given Yes
terday Before Woman's Club.

meeting of the Woman's Club has
benn prepared for the EVENING
NEWS by the clubs press represen'
tatiye:
The woman's Club held its
fourth regular meeting yesterday il
the Presbyterian chapel.
1t was a most important meeting
for at this time it was decided
that the work OF the club for this
year, should be the Inauguration oil
a Day Nursery. There is no more
needed charity than this, in u city
and nothing lends itself more COM
pletely to the sympathies of a com
munity than a Day Nursery. Every
good wish follows the Civic Depart
ment In this undertaking.
The speaker Of the afternoon was
Mr.. Alfred H. Mccain, of New York.
a pure food expert.
IT is most difficult to report in a
satisfactory manner Mr. McCann's
talk, he is SO full of his subject and
his manner and personality are so
very f~oreeful.
Before coming to the Club, Mr..
McMcCann made a little journey
about the town. He said he found
some very encouraging things, and
some d~iscouraging things.
Congress just walked up to the
fact that women were intelligently
Interested in the kitchens when 1t
was besieged by hundreds OF women
to pass the Pure Food and Drugs
Act. 1t would not have existed but
for the women of our country.
Some of the common dangers are
sodium sulphite used in meat to
keep 1t bright red-Alum Is found
in most pickles. Benzoate of soda
in catsup and chow-ehow. Sulphur
rous acid in all foods that are
bIeached. an example being the
white asparagus tips, sulphuric acid
is dried fruits, white wines, mush-
rooms and molasses- When dogs,
which for six months had been
given the same amount OF suiphu-
rio acid that would be taken at table
by people who used foods debased
In this manner, were examined, h
animals were found fat, muscular
condition normal, vital organs nor
NAL, digestive tract normal, but the
kidneys showed a peculiar color.
This was found to be indicative of
the stages of Bright's disease.
What shall we do-gfye up
things? No indeed, change condi-
Barbados molasses and
the tax-use Mown rice IL 1t
does seem strange 10 the eye.
The bake shops have an especial
ly big burden of guilt In their use
of coal tar ~coloring materials-prin-
the one that colors yellow
to simulate the use of many eggs.
Turkish government prohibits these
products for the coIoring of wool for
yet we use them in ice cream,
soda water, gelatines and candies,
and most fruit colorings. Gelatines
were entirely wiped off the good
housekeepers' lists.
Children need fruit-apples es-
pecially-but the cost from two to
i've cents and children do not have
his to spend. Since the reign of
he awful lolly pops and other fear
'uI penny candies-wni1e In all the
around us, good sound apples
and rot@=an~Aha szroaand4Ins
he cheap candies soapstone, paraf-
Inc and cocoaricka are used to keep
hem firm. Cocoaricka does not
melt under 100 degrees-think of a
ooor little stomach wrestling with
50 clio degrees.
In our streets fish is exposed
the peculiar chemical compound of
fish makes a splendid field for bac-
terra. Butter and cheese are expos
ed. 1t is not the visible dirt that Is
reall. appalling but the microscopic
dirt.
The drug act allows sulphuric
acid, alum, sulphate of copper and
coloring matters-if 1t is mentioned
the Iabel-but the fine type con-
dennis it-and housekeepers must
make 1t a law not to buy articles so
labeled. The United States govern
ment cannot interfere with mater
ials made and sold in the same state
1T can only interfere when things
are made in one state and sold in
another. The only safeguard is an
honest Board OF Health.
The human body contains fifteen
elements, and food supply must
cover all these elements else we
have unbalanced physical condition
resulting in lack of force and i'll
ness. AS we'll expect a furnace to
supply heat fed by ashes, as to ex-
pect the body to supply force when
1t is fed with debased food.
The result of pure food is pure
blood. The result of this is resist
ance to fatigue and disease OF
health.
Mr.. Mccain gladly answered
scores of questions asked by the
club members and it should be the
beginning of a real housekeeping
in the stores of Perth Amboy.
1t was a disappointment to the
club that all the special invitations
to the meeting were not accepted
We think our n courageous guest
felt repaid.
A social hour finished the after.
noon most pleasantly. Mrs. Mat
thews received with Mrs. Fletcher
and the club h~ostesses help very ma.
terially toward a better acquaint-
ance.