Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-11-19
Faithfully Yours,
ANNETTE W. PARMELEE,
Enosburg Falls, VT,

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ANNETTE w. PARMELEE,
Enosburg Falls, VT,
We are pleased to give Annette
Parmelee's letter in full, and more
than pleased, because she quotes
from that most wonderful article
by that most experienced writer in
Everybody's Magazine. That terri
BILE picture drawn of the manufacture
of West India rum was almost har-
rowing enough to turn everybody"
against it. We read it in full when
the article appeared. 1t equaled
one we once read Of the manufac-
ture of West India molasses. In
fact, the two articles bore a strong
similarity to each other. Both con-
tanned rats, and filth. and nigger's
toenails, and other like favoring eX-
tracts, which no doubt causes the
articles to sell. These things COM
pare we'll with our old-fashioned
maple sugar and vinegar made from
sap and syrup from which they skim
med out dead squirrels and mice. Of
course we all believe because one
man might make sugar and vinegar
out of products that contained rats
and mice, or a West India house
likewise might have made rum or
molasses not strictly pure or free
from filth, that there can be no
other manufacturing of pure sugar,
or vinegar, or molasses, or rum, or
even liquors, in, the whole world.
We must believe it from what is in
ferred from that wonderful article
by that most experienced writer in
Everybody's Magazine.
But speaking of filth, our people
as a nation almost affiliate with it
in other things besides those men,
toned. STEPPED hen manure has
been and doubtless is still, drank to
ward off the measles. Cochineal is
dried cochineal bugs. Yet cochineal,
or the extract of it is used to color
some of our SWEETEST cakes. Triple,
like that West India rum, very near
ly affiliates with filth in its origin a
stage. Stockings from some feet
worn around the neck for sore
throat would in many cases make a
weak stomach growl. We have
seen horses and men drink of the
same water out of the same pail.
Once saw a fat naked baby sit on a
table, and then bread moulded on
the same board on which the baby
sat. No! We did not partake of
the bread. To be sure we had rathe +
drink after horses than some men,
and the sit-down anatomy of a baby
may be cleaner than some lips. 1t all
depends upon how you look at it
There is no filth in the world, so we
have read, only as we are educated
to think so. And as we think
about these things, so we can thinl
about West India rum.
Don't believe everything you reaC
in the magazines 90 only those thing
adverse to rum. Frequently article
from bright minds are written tt
sell. We knew of a college profes
sor who, a little short of cash-they
sometimes are-wrote a fine articl
on henhouses and the care of hens
He even drew out the plan of tn
henhouse, and both it and tn
article we're copied far and wide
Some things not being found practi
cal when put to the test, he wa
written to for further explana
tons. Then men posted in henner
les called on him. 1t was then dis
covered that he not only never KEEP
a hen, but never saw the inside 0
henhouse in his life. He wrot
the article to sell and it sold"
We have no fears of that Indi
rum because we never nip" No
do we advocate the use of liquor
for "nippers." This is where man
temperance adherents judge u
Wronpfullv. Because we show II