The Washington times., 1916-02-01
"Smashing Success" Is Their
Verdict Of Show Under
Auspices of The Times.
SAMPLES ARE GIVEN AWAY
Lecture and Cooking Demon
stration, Booths, Films, and
Music Are Features.
"A smashing success"


That was the verdict Of the crowds
VINO yesterday attended the frst days
program of the Wcstheld Domestic
Science School and Household Appli.,
ance Exposition, under the auspices OF
The Washington Times.
The lecture and cooking demonstra-
ton Of Mr.. and Mrs. Sherwood p. Sny-
der; the attractive booths, with their
demonstrators. who gave away samples
Of products the musical program or the
Arcade orchestra, and the motion pic
ture program in the evening, wed IN
favor with the stream Of men and Wom-
en- who came and went from | O'Clock,
when the doors opened. until the close.
at II o'clock last night
In his address at the opening OF the
show yesterday afternoon and introduc-
ing Mr.. and Mrs. Snyder. John Sher-
man, superintendent Of weights, meas
ures, and markets, said: The Wash
ington Times deserves our thanks for
this stimulus Of our interest in sub
ject so important to all Of US"
Eating-Our Greatest Industry.
This has been our greatest indus
try--eatirsg. Mr.. Sherman contended.
pcnse of the average family is the
item of food. averaging more than
one half Of the tctal the country over
and yet until very recently people
seem to have thought very little
about it.
"it Is a good thing that people are
learning tie necessity and the value
Of thinking about tho things the!!.
eat: thinking about getting good
them economically. You know If
enough people get to thinking.
really thinl1ing-on most any subject.
pretty soon something useful gets
done along that line. The difference
between Intelligent thinking. and
thouGhtIess habit is measured in the
difference between the results they
accomplish.
MY business concerns the cconori-
cal distribution OF foods rather than
the questions Of chemical composition
or purity, but since I have been called
here 20 talk on a subject on which
know very little, l will tell YOU the
little that l do know. very briefly,
and be done.
Don't forget that a thing may he
impure or a substitution be used in
it, without being in the slightest de-
gree harmful. In fact, it nay be bet
ter for you than the real article would
have been.
Protected BY Laws.
This Is why l emphasized moment
ago the necessity for thinking. You
all know of the jar of fake straw =
berry jam. There was not particle
Of real strawberry it in. Yet the good
food chemists who analyzed 1t found
that that combination of glucose,
hayseed and few other things
can't remember, was fully as nutri-
tious ard more easily digested, than
real strawberry jam. Now the kick.
in that case, was that the public had
q right to know what it was getting
for its money. After that 1t would be
up to the public to think about it, and
decide whether 1t wanted that comb
nation. at that price, or not. But 1t
was unfair to the public to sell Ak
strawberry jam at straw berry JAIN
prices something that was not straw
berry jam.
And so, we arc now getting more
laws passed to help the public to
know just what it is getting for its
money.
This Is an age of package goods
When you buy any kind of food you
should be careful to determine what
you are getting; but especially wher
YOU get package goods, it Is up to you
TO guard yourself, for the laws have
made it easy for you to protect yourself
fully and well.
we are rapidly establishing stand
ards of attainment and service FOL
those who provide our foods for US