The Washington times., 1917-02-13
NEW SUBSTITUTE
FOR BUTTER HERE
Washington Housewives Take
Pride in Introducing Latest
Weapon in H. c. L. Fight.

the H. c. of L. war. Butter has an
other rival, and the economical house
wife who .suspiciously asks whether
the product offered by her dealer is
butter or oleo, may be truthfully told
NO" Another and classier substi-
tute for the oily luxury that adorns
the tables of the rich, has made its
debut into culinary society, and its
names has even been suggested as a
possibility to be included in some
future Presidential dinner.
Its name is "nutmargarine" Chard
6, please), a brand new 1917 model.
as shown by its trade mark, and
might be defined as margarine with
a college education. In place of lard
and other animal fats, the meat of
the stately cocoanut is ground fine
and mixed with peanut oil and pas
teurized milk; and the resulting com
pound, when treated to a homeopathic
cannot be distinguished from the gen.
uine article, so Mrs. N. H. Darton,
of the Franklin Thompson Home and
School Association declares.
Is Cheaper Than Butter.
This new proxy" may be obtained
for % cents a pound, or, in ten-pound
lots, for 26 cents, and with each
pound comes a diminutive capsule to
be worked into the margarine. a pro-
cess which Mrs. Darton estimates will
require about two minutes to a pound.
The whole secret of saving money
lies in the purchase, not so much of
the nutmargarine as Of the capsule.
1t is the hinge upon which the whole
situation hangs. 1t is the reason for
the cheapness OF the place where it
isn't!
For outside Of the nutmargarine in
a capsule it is harmless, but inside of
the proxy it automatically makes the
price go up.
License Ii Big Item.
II you want to sell uncolored oleo,
your license costs you SO. II you de-
eide that you'd rather sell a more
popular tint, your license promptly
aviates to the height OF S4S. In addi-
tion to this deterrent influence, there
is tax OF Y cent a pound On uncolor-
ed oleo which increases to 10 cents ls
soon. as II takes on a golden hue
Manufacturers have called the atten-
ton of the Supreme Court to these
annoying little restraints of trade"
but that unsympathetic body has
turned a deaf ear to their troubles
and confirmed the decision OF the
lower tribunal.
Therefore, in order. to effect any
material saving in your butter bill,
1t is necessary for you to buy your
substitute uncolored and see what an
/ artistic job you can do with a capsule
OF harmless vegetable paint.
Problem An Old One.
The efforts to dodge high prices
are by no means new-even to
juggling with the butter. Way back
in the last century, Mege Mouris, at
the instigation OF the French govern
ment, began experimenting to pro
duce a substitute for butter "for the
use of the navy and the poor" The
FIRST patent was taken out In this
country in 1873. for a butter substi-
tute made by fat taken from anil
mails, which, when artihcially digest
ed and colored. bore a family re-
semblance to the real thing, and, IL
sufficiently salt, disguised any unde-
sirable fiavors.
improvements have been constant
ly made on the first crude efforts,
until now the process Is comparative
ly simple, the main points of import
ance being the character ofAthe fats
used, and the cleanliness In It's pEep-
Rxy aaFiaA nF aNnRTimAntS
some scientists have determined that
its digestibiIity is but 2 per cent be-
low that OF butter, while others say
that they are absolutely equal.
IL More Nutritious.
The calories of one gram of but
ter fat, however, are bout 300 less
than of one gram of oleo, and oleo
keeps longer than butter without be-
coming rancid. The statements of
most authorities have been that oleo
is good and digestible and health
full II made from pure material and
the process properly conducted.
This, however, does not prevent it's
being Illegal to sell II as butter to
those who want butter, and string
ent laws have been passed in many
States against this species OF fraud.
Some States require il to be un-
colored, others require a still bright
er hue than that OF butter, while
still others tax the colored product
in an effort to render II prohibitiye
The State of Pennsvlvania rules II
to be illegal to sell within the State
any butter substitute unless II be
manufactured outside of the State.
And yet the sale goes on.
"AH Is Not Butter"
Recently several samples Of what
were supposed to be the best varie-
ties of butter obtainable were pur-
chased in a Washington market and
taken to the Government laboratory
for examination, which disclosed the
fact that only one OF the samples
was really butter.
One OF the advantages, besides that
Of cheapness, possessed by the sub
stitutes, which are made of vegetable
oils. such as cocoanut oil. peanut oil.
cottonseed oil, etc, Is the freedom
from any suspicion of disease lurking
In the product. You don't have TO
worry over the possibility OF peanuts
or cocoanuts ever having been threat
ened with tuberculosis, and the mem
bers of the Franklin Thompson Home
and School Association are enthusi-
astic over their valuable find" and
the honor> which they feel to be
theirs in being the first ones to in
troduce nutmargarine to Washington