The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 21, 1906, Page 15

THE SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY CALL. Che Ho ET the label tell” 1 Let the housewife know she is buying when pays her money for a ct to serve as food for family. At present the r adulterated foods de- right to such knowl- over the counter for ten or fifteen cents @ pound can be composed of good ma- terial? First-class candy cannot be made by the manufacturer in large quantities for less than twelve cents a pound. Tak- ing the factory cost at from twelve to fifteen cents a pound and = profit of from three to five cents for the maker, it can readily be seen that the confectionery now to be permissible through right of usage. Thus they say “potted chicken™ has become a trade name for a com- pound of beef or veal through years of unrestricted substitution and that as lhll'!:rl or veal is just as healthful as “pott chicken” no law should inter- fere with their right to sell it as such. The same contention s made by the g t he alone should continue in v of selling her whatever she asks for maple for apple jelly, or vinegar pices or nearly any other food manufacture. Why man be forced to serve when- she asked he: grocer { tted chicken or turke; e forced to feed her isated concoction of id_apple peels, cast off ples and possibly c person who sells glucose and boiled hickory bark for maple syrup. There is scarcely any maple syrup on the market now, they declare, only enough to flavor an occasional better quality 'of the substitute, and as the glucose compound is not injurious to health and has been sold so long under the name of “mable syrup,” it would be a grievous Infringement on thelr rights ’ to force them to discontinue their time- henored practice. “Mocha and Java' . coffee packers produce the same kind of contention. ““How is it possible,” they ask, “‘when only a few thousand pounds of real Mocha and Java comes to the United States every year to supply all the American people who consume 1,116, 922561 pounds of coffee a year, or over half the world’'s supply? Therefore they claim the right of packing any kind of coffée as “Mocha and Java” and using ¥ . that as a “trade_name” But these A “‘trade; names”” havé become so general that scarcely anvthing is now what it ufed to be or what it is reoresented to be. We eat small fishes of miny kind caught from the lakes and rivers and purchased n@er the “trade name” of ‘“‘sardines.’” We consume cottonseed oil in abundauce under the “trade name'.of olive ofl. We driok @& multi-colored liquid with the odur of boiled weeds under the erroneous supposition that it contains tea. We smear our meats with pumpKin pulp and poisonous anfline dye thinking we are using catsup. But I have given a list of the principal food adulterations In former i3 letiers and it would be redundancy to that they ought to be per; repeat the long Mst here as it would to any food u.s;msznumgpe(‘hz‘,‘»ufiicwesf.; tell again of the numerous ‘deaths they 1ong s the substitutes are not injurious have cavsed and the billions of dollars aad that the mannfacturer.alone ought the public pays each year for these ta Have the power of determining Worthless substitutes for pure foods. whether or not they are injurious, They The manufacturers clalm that the pub- cannot be sold in the stores for less than twenty-five cents, and a price of thirty to thirty-five cents is not unreasonable.” How strange that nobody ever thought of this explanation before. The presi- t of the New York candy makers has d the way to the solution of the problem. Something ought to be do. to prohibit the children from eat- ing these candy poisons. It is outrageous t t should be so careless of their e same conditions are doubtless ned milk containing for- y baby ought to be taught time of its birth how to pure milk from that contain- dehyde, and if it drinks the ated milk there ought to be a law pu: ing it for the offense provided it lives long enough to be punished. This new light on affairs ought to make the pure food advocates feel awfully small. Here they have been barking up the wrong tree all the time trying to have the manufacturers punished for ing food products that poison chil- iren when it is the children that have been to blame all the time for their own destruction by being so foolish as to ea?® these poisonous things. The same argument might be made as regards the housewife in purehasing sup- plies for her table. e manufacturer is not to blame for making jelly out of cows' hoofs and the drain of fruit fac- torles, or jam from sea, weeds, or flour from bone guste The innocent and kind manufacturer is merely trying to ac- commodate her, giving her something she can purchase with her limited purse. What matters it whether bone dust IS she ought to do is alw nutritious or not so long as it is cheap a and looks like flour. The woman ought to have sense enough to know that she could not buy pure products for the price for which they were sold, the manufac- ber needs. She doesn’t know he claims, and sugar candy eibe s try and pay much as pessible for-everything she buys. This is the way the manufacturer would educate the public. But how strange it is that the prices of .products are going up all the time servativee and chemicals as a means of converting every kind of refuse Into markesable products! The truth ef it is that in this day of American mfl- l{onaires the manutacturer §s not satis- fled with the profits he used to make bave law t it is better to educat v » i nl. e'"sw: b s be educate txzer‘“;:‘u)d cc::lenf:l‘ S!he CJs"hi tvnkn(v\\, and that foods are sold much higher and he not cnly endeavors by every low, say that the imitations have become hc needs education and is to blame for “Doss sxyboly at- candy S SRS S T false if now than in the day when the manu-. scheming process known to his hired ‘trade names" through the long prac- ' buying these adulterations lIs quite as nybody ¥ he did not pay a big price for it. What facturer did not know the use of pre- chemists to reduce the c of mjanu- reasonable as to claim that the person tice of deception, so that they ought facture, but he exercises the same energy in his combinations of tradé to @ increase the selling price, thys adding # SUCH A BLOW TO HER PRIDE »# | S One man R R N G o TG GO0 B oG S R LS00 0000000000000 5 o is’ argument ontinuing chenleal fadul- he were forced /to do ( ‘S agalnst dis terants said » F wa pa we! , and r fles r e e 2 ure, -4 as . e have bech in Ber BheSwore a-short skirt ahe was the & Grawing.room or somuthiNE ke that | wanld heve 16 pav 4t0bos HIRe ol wife at the breakfast table the sphynxiike lipe el said the short, pale funniest thing: : There was a tall, beautiful girl in the{the real food products the consumers looking very pale and meek, T am. pasiedily sware of that.” was ot o kogade Lo g R Clara had no end of confidence center, and a lot of fat; middle-aged|supposed they' were buying than for and brown about the eyes the ley rejoinder. fre : t took e TR s et and that goes a long way women all around her, eying her with) the substitutes he was ~really welling v 'gnd Blye abont the lips, és:a - ILOteigd fe decsive you and sent k some he con- in New York, doesn't it? Gibson didn't . their lorgnettes up ta thelr eyes. . them. Another manufacturer said that { ... i . word Home that I bad to stay at the . or, and that wak & Sdi any models just then, 5o she sajd, * ‘Why, tHat doesn look like me!” | to print the exact contents of foofl don- § TaP Sometimes does on “the mornllg ,mce gng:'had remained away long anyhow She thought she had 'Kh 1 :~u<~§: if the “truth was ml.d sald Clara, pointing to' the beautiful)tainers om the, label would be equiva- after”” He appeared so abject. 50 re- enough to get sobered up, you might good figure, but I.could never It was that kind of a model he didn’t girl. . lent to labeling them with a skull and {pentant, so altogether miserable. that have something against me; but I came : e aid lace to kill ana "eed. But she did find an'artist who ' ‘Oh, no!” said the artist.” ‘That Isn't)crossbones. If ~these ManUACLUTErs{y hara ¢ than that of Mrs Car. F8Bt home and iconfessed and—and y at-s time o w model. He was making draw- you. You weren't posing for that fig- as unsophisticated fn Adulberating| s o feart than that of Mrs. Car- . ged your pardon and was as humbly ciach those tall, ure. 'Here you are.’ they are In arguing for adul-{.® misht easily have been melted and ropentant as a man can be. I own I > The S e 5 - cross-eved “With that he pointed to one of the terations their products would seen be{Made to overflow, If—but that was the took more than was good for me, ¥ est—she’s from In- ¢ rs and - sad-looking men. Clara dowagers, and if he hadn't drawn”her{laughed out of existence. But they dia{pity. of it! but—2 - * must have been guy- told us with her nose up that she was figure to u T, laced waist, bulging fat-(not make their fortunes nor obtain{ “And so you won't forgive me?” he “Oh that isn't what Incenses me,” posing for one of those girls. She still ness and all. You shbuld have seen broke in Mrs. Cayter stirring her coffee No, I'm glad you didn’t. their perior mentality for she came all ocial” positions in debates. 8u-{agked after a cold, cold pause in which called it with unabated calmnes: Gibson girl’ but it was only Clara’s fac ‘I might for- Ne k on her figure ! does not . e to may. mear-Gibson that fellow was drawing. It was too painful, 1 wis sorry I was{splcuously in thotr occubnflo:"::; iore{tlle sflence penetrated to the Window piy.'par. f n t of her fgdre she was mighty prnu‘d over it, there. She flushed up, tears came into{than it does in the -busihess of any{Panes and made them quiver noisily. “and I lost my month’s salary, but . s Ha ey B.Fa5HuE AN alrs and lace her eyes, and I thought she was going}other kind of a'bunko man. Their{ Mrs. Carter stirred her coffee with et gt aghosn "“r; to break down right there and cry. But) mental force and their power of argu- {haughty -disdain and lips closed as ut we have plenty in the bank,” R podr 4 ng with those 3 ay she asked me tp go up to she didn’t. She gave a hysterical sort) ment exists in the dollars they are en- Jtightly as thgse of the sphynx. suppiied his wife. * . ere raging t tist’s studio and look at a picture of laugh, and then we came away. 1)abled to pour into their coffers wil “1f I'd made a habit of this sort of , ~And I broke an engagement with ibson girls fin} 3 red from some of the sketches. was dying to laugh, but that would) such marvelous rapidity through thair you, I know. thing,” went on the culprit unhappily, ven't seen any of 'em myself,” she have been too cruel. Clara hasn't posed ) modern methods of decelving the e t " in- said, as we climbed the stairs. ‘He said any since. What's ‘she doing? Oh.} The frandulent d;..nuu:m r‘;ub;l:.' “I'could understand why you're so. hard zcr::;(:z?::?;"d? Lo gy T 2 I'd better walt till they were done. I'm she's got w good job at the Little’ of(clare that they should. not: forceq }On me. But 1 never did such a thing = “Well-—what in heaven—r" g just crazy to see! Well, the artist Everything Store.” ot to tell yWhiatitheir products ‘and )before in all our married lfe" ““Do you khow what you did when N G T W, DEARIE, DON'T YOU SAY YoUVE ETeH THEM ALLIOH! THESE BISCUITS ARE NIGE AND WERE THEY LIGHT? OH! IM LIGHT UNLESS THEY REALLY ARE SUGUAD. TYE SLEASE. YOU) NEVER MIND THEM QUEEN, COME IN HERE, PLEASE: SOME~ THING, STRANGE 15 HAPPENING TO ME, ¥ You MADE THEM J { \WAFIE PET \THEY Cono [ Be omeRS You BET.- REALLY LIGHT? CLOSE THAT WIN DOW OR |'LL-QH!" FLOAT OUT! CALL THE JANITOR! oH SHUT THE DOOR? ‘M AS LIGHT AS A FEATHER. DONT GET EXCITED! NOW, IF | ¢AN HANG ON TO GH.AR! TLL GRAB THIS, MUST OR I'M | L0ST! OH. OH! HELP! HELP' CALL THE FIRE DE- : PARTMENT! QUiCk! COME GET ME QUICK! ] CAN'T HOLD ON MUCH LONG ®. HURRY! FRIENDS! /NOW. IF TRE WIND WILL ONr‘iY H"?OBM‘) VER TO THAY STEEPLE, I MIG < MLt T HOLD UNTIL: SOME 'ONE COMES NTENTION IN MARING m%ss BISCUITS S WY, TELL HER | WAS JusT CoOKING HIs { »+ CROWNING SIN OF MR. CARTER # | T fed Foods who aceepts a counterfeit dollar is to blame ‘and not the counterfeiter who made it. The label on the adulterated foods is always a counterfeit, both in plcture and lettering. Some of the very worst and most dangerous food products on the market are labeled “Guaranteed to be Absolutsly Pure.” and they may bear the name of a fictitious firm address not in existence. The ho does pot know the wiles and sophistries of the food manufacturer and she be- leves what the label says. Our laws should see to- it that her confidence Is not misplaced—thakt she is protected from this swindle aven as_she is protected from the generally lesser swindles prace ticed by other thieves and robbers “Let the label tell” This was the slogan I raised at the St. Puul vention of the National State Dairy and Food dep: the one that has been voiced ever since by all the -food officials who posed to the misbranding of © heinous custom that Dave: for most of the other evils practice the food adulterator. What a blessing a trut would be to the housewif it would be a great convenlence if she desired coloring and tives in her food she could a the privilege of selecting best agreed with her comstit could decide what kind and dyes, if any, were b the daily menu of her she could find arsenic and her family. w care for wood alec salicyclle acid and for ing found them to b particular case. to let her ingredients. be forced to eat ollve when she desired mayonaise Should she be forced to eat tabasco sauce when she desired Worcestershire sauce? Should she be forced to wear slippers when she wa tainly not. Then why forced to imbibe arseni when chance she make want strychnine anilfne dye or formaldehyde? It is an unjust and arbitrary authority the food adulterator exercises NGRS ) %) you came home?" Mrs. Carter spoke the words slowly and impressively and gazed at her husband over the coffes pot with a look of accusation that made him shudder. ¢ “I don’t know anything!" moaned the eulprit. “You triéd to kiss my maid!" Mr. Carter. opened his eyes in un= felgned astonishment. “I—what?” “You heard what I sald, Mr. Carter”™ “And is THAT what you're mad at?" It was Mrs. Carter’s turn to open her “That! THAT!" she ecried. “You speak of it as iIf it were nothing!"” Mr. Carter rose, slowly took his hat, and looking at his wife as if he had never seen her before, went quietly out into the cold morning air. Once there he rubbed his forehead thoughtfully. Then shaking his head sadly, he pur- sued his way down the street “Will we ever understand them?” he muttered hopelessly. “Will we ever understand them?” But no answer came to him out of the morning air, through which his fellow men went hurrying by. OHt OH! DARLING! Nol NOJ I'M SO SICK. THAT f [PRECIOUS MUsT iNOT EAT ANY {MORE OF THOSE