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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 26, 1908)
D TTTT: OMATTA JSOTDAY BEE: .TANTTAftT Cfi, MO. Work of the Iowa State Pure Food Commission 1 Curious and Romantic courtships D FJ MOINEfl. Jan. (Special Correspondence.) Not alway ci ! the public entertain tha rlaht Mr to pur food legis lation and mure often It enter tain the wrong Idea, mnrh haa been aald about pure food 1eK1ilatlon and so much haa been stld about the ne cessity of pure food legislation, that peopl have been quite pinna to get th Idea that almost all kinds of foods are adulterated, and that some of them ira adulterated with poisonous stuff that Is Injurious to th health and welfare of the people. While adulterations have been gross. It can be said that they are not as bad aa baa been believed, but this does not remov the desirability and even necessity of hv- Ing pur food lawa. Iowa has at (rreat ex pense enlarged Its dairy commission de partment to a food and dairy commission department. This new department has now been In existence a little over a year, and la now well settled In the routine of busi ness. There have been many prosecutions and there will be many more prosecutions of those who have violated the pure food laws, for only by enforcement can the cam paign of education be carried on success fully, and enforcement means court ac tlona till the manufacturers get thoroughly Imbued with the Idea of obeying the law. ' The first purpose of those who were In strumental In getting the pure food law on the statute books of Iowa was to prevent the people of Iowa from being humbuggod. The second Idea was to prevent deleterloua . substances being usod In foods. There are only a few adulterants used In the foods manufactured. aecord'ng to those best In formed. Coal tar products fer flavoring and coloring are the most flagrant. There are few eoal tar products that are really Injurious to" the human system, but there are none that are. anv good. They are chemicals made from the refuse of crudu ell and are not food. But from these coal tnr products It Is possible for a skillful ehenilHt to manufacture the most d.llcats flavors, as well as the most delicate colors. Vegetable coloring matter cannot begin ta compare with coal tar products and neither can vegetable; flavoring matter. The appe tite of many a person has been coaxed by delicate tints In the first Instance and by delicate flavors In the second Instance, -K hen neither coloring nutter nor flavor have any food value whatever, being mad of coal tar products, and Injurious just aa aiy foreign substance not food In the stom ach la Injurious. The next thing the food manufacturer 80 that they ought not to do Is the Intro duction of bensoate of soda as a preserva tive. It Is and has been used In almost everything where there is necessity for a preservative. The United Strifes govern ment Depart n;"nt of Agriculture has JM?t ruled that it is harmful and must not be uaed. The Iowa food and dairy commis sioner Iirs be?n holding so ever since the Iowa lav went lito e.'fect. It Is sometimes thought necessary to have some preserva tive and the f'ght of the food department, la always to keep the manufacturers from using anything that la harmful and that Is one of the main purpores of the pure food taw of this state. But while these are all Important the one great proposition In the pure food law of this state Is to keep the public from being fooled. Here Is where the 'owa food com missioner's department Is kept chiefly busy. The temptation always for the food man ufacturer la to mix cane augar and glucoae, add a little flavoring matter and coloring niatfbr and sell It on the market for "pure maple augar." Cane sugar and glucose are both foods, and when not flavored or , colored by some substance positively harm- Itul are useful aa fooii, but the law says, and everybody sees the reasonableness of the law aaytng, tbat such a mixture should pot be sold for "pure maple augar." Not Dne housewife In all the country and prob ably not one large hotel can go to the trouble of having a chemical department is an adjunct to th kitchen for the pur pose of analyzing sampies of everything offered on the market so aa to keep from being humbugged. It la right here that the pure food law steps In and snya to the manufacturer that everything muHt be sold for what It la. The law allows anything to be aold for focd that Is food and la not Injurious, but It must be sold for what it la. The enforcement of this provision la the very thing that keeps the food commis sioner busy. Probably no two housewlvea out of lJt) know that there are six differ ent kinds of vinegar and that all are good, but that apple cider vinegar la the only kind tbat Is naturally brown. For ages the manufacturers have been selling the malt and distilled vinegars for apple vinegar by adding a little burnt sugar aa coloring (natter. Burnt augar la harmless, but the public la deceived and paya for apple cider vinegar when It "doesn't get It. This list could be prolonged Indefinitely. There are scores of ways, probably some that the food and dairy commissioner haa Dot yet become acquainted with. In which the food manufacturers mix up atuff and oli It for tbat which It la not. This la the adulteration phase of the food proposition and the moat important. Byrupe, catsups, canned goods thesa are tho onea In whf-h the food manufacturer yields most readily TV. E. SMITH. Deputy T904 and Dairy Commissioner. K19S AVTS TAIvCOTT, Assistant Chemist. 11133 RUTH WOODRUFF, Stenographer. RAYMOND crnTTTCK. Chemist. ( ( . A w w. s. mT3i?m aaslslanl y i .J. - 3. C. TATBk JTuod fiupaetM. Am tarTeatlaal tlrtie. l!3 Ev Court ;nlt Falmer, a It JT 1 beautiful New York society ir. fVl I Is one of that kind. She was recently married to Angein Sikellamas, a Greek poet, and Instead of being garbed In the conventional bridal gown, she wore a cl is le Greek tunic, with her hair braided anj crowned with a Greek fillet. The att.ra was the bride's choice, not from a desire to compliment her husband, hut Irnm a con viction of Its beauty, healthf ulness and permanent utility. Last summer Miss Falmer shirked ber fashionable friends at Newport by appearing at her hotel wear ing andals. She has Ideas of her own con cerning dress, and says that eorsts, braces and the like are worse than drink. "Of Agala, Oat Aiala." After being married for three years and divorced for nearly five. Joseph Fear'um Caldwell and Mrs. Adelaide Willlama Cald well of Charlotte, N. C, decided, to try matrimony once more, and were remarried in the First Presbyterian church In Wash ington last week. They received the congratulations of a float of friends, some of whom attended their first wedding In 19i0 In New York, and In a few day they will return to fhilr southern home, where Mr. Caldwell Is the editor and part owner of the Charlotte Ob server. His children by a former marriage are said to have been the cnue of the ma.l tlnl woes of the Caldwells. So violent were their objections that a separation was ef fected within a few weeks after the wel ding In 1900, and Mrs. Caldwell haa re sided In New York ever since. . In 1901 a little girl was born. For a while It looked as If she would be the means of effecting a reconciliation, but' tho older children prevailed, and In July. 11 'S. Mrs. Caldwell secured a divorce In Sioux FalU, S. D. EDWARD C. LTTTON. Clark. , :K I "I had arrived the couple realised It was a joke. Mr. Chuckhohn had been married In the even'ng to Mine Swanaey, who Is a daugh ter of H. A. Bwanscy. It had been an au tomobile courtship. Mr. Chiickhohn, who lives In Lemars, la., had made up hia mind that immediately after the wedding they WT?uld give everyone tho slip and make a run In his machine to a downtown, hotU whence they would start next momllng on an automobile trip to his home town. Hut the friends of the roupre alo mada plans. They were allowed to "slip away." as they had plsnned, but shortly after they turned Into Mlciilan avenue and Fifty fifth street, and atarted northward, ft waiting policeman got into the game. It brought them to a halt by standing In th street and waving them down, and Immed iately climbed Into the machine and or dered that It ho driven to the Flft'eth street station, where the rest of the wad ding party was In waiting. After It was "squared up" with the pollr, Mr. and Mr Chuckhoirr. were escorted to their waiting automobile, only to find a doaen of their frlenjs with a small U"d brass band. The cavalcade then moved down town In a column, the band leading. The Vaaderbllt Weddlag. The marriage of Miss Gladys Moor Vanderbllt of New Tork. age II, and Count Lnsxelo Jeno Maria Henrllt Simon Sxech enyt of Orneso, Hungary, age 2S, la scheduled to take a place In the Vander bllt residence. Fifth avenue and Fifty seventh street. New York City, next Mon day. Already New York's curious mob, according to the Times, Is being Inflamed by details of the bride's trosaeau, of her attendants, her wedding presents, her beauty, her simplicity, her former ad mirers, and the slse of the dot she Is to bestow upon her future husband. Nor Is he, though little known, overlooked In th process of stirring up tumult. His pluia features, his stooping figure, his estutt In Hungary, (Chateaux en Espange.) hi family Jewels have all been rapturously described. A whole shipload of his exalted friend and relatives has arrived here to partici pate In the function. Their name are un prounceable, but all can rttd their title clear. However, th mob will be diomed to considerable disappointment over th arrangements for the coming nuptials. Remembering th wedding of the Duke of Marlborough and the Earl of Craven at 8t- Thomaa' and Grace church, when th mob In a true stormlng-the-Bastlle style burst Into the sacred edifice and almost captured the newly-weds thinking of Tbe Vaadrrbllt Weddlnar. The marriage of Miss Gladys Vanderbllt, daughter of Mrs. Cornelius Vandi r'.illt. to Count Ljsdlslas Cxechenyl will take placj at her home. Fifth avenue and Fifty-eighth street, on January 3. Final arrangements are now being made and the license ob tained. Several dates for the wedding have been tfientloned during the last two months. First It was said that It would take place late In November In Newport. , The reason for th postponement la that the relatives of Count Czechenyt were re luctant to leave home during the Christ- these painful scenes, when everything la mas holidays. They are now on their way signt and movaoie w across the ocean and here. 1 A Remarkable some are already H. . B. WRIGHT, an JDaliy rVimmlataa M. E. FLYTfNv JTsod laapaoto Weddlaa- The most remarkable wedding Iowa has seen in a decade was that of David Louis Erunce, a beardless youth of 50, and Mrs. Delilah Broyles, aged ES, hair white as the driven snow, mother of nfne children and grandmother of twelve, which occurred at Ses Moines January 2, As these twenty-one offsprings and the bridegroom's father and mother stood with bowed heads. Rev. John A. Durant spoke the words that united this strange pair for life In the little church known aa Scott's Mission. "My boy needs a wife who will be a mother to him. That Is why I encouraged him In his courtship," said Mrs. Brunce, mother of the bridegroom. "It Is true, ray son's wife Is three year older than I am. but what of that? She's a fine woman and I know she can make my son happy." carried away souvenirs, th family of the bride of next week haa wisely decided upon a horn wedding. There Is no large structure la the city better protected against an as sault of petticoats than the mansion at Fifth avenue and Fifty-seventh street, un less It be the Tombs or th armory of the Twelfth regiment. National Guards of New York, In which fins or ganisation th bride-to-be's brother commands a company. Indeed Dnm Rumor, though often a lying Jade, haa said that If necessary the captain and some of bis fellow guardsmen would picket the grounds about his mother's house In order to protect th guests at the wedding breakfast, as a large dega tlon of hungry people la expected outside as well as in. As for th police. It is well known that Commissioner Bingham Is giv ing the matter his very earoeat attention and, if necessary. Fifth avenue will b closed from Forty -second strat to th Central park. Yet press we never so closely, butt la never so bravely, not on of us, nor any on else, will be able to see th most mag- The extraordinary courtship which led to this unique mating of souls began ser- nlfIcent thlng abeut tn, wnoia affair, and that Is the bride's wedding present to net Mrs. Broyles was not at first. Th Idea of a man thirty-five years was novel to say the eral months ago. disposed to yield being courted by younger than she least. "Why, David, I'm old enough to be your mother," she said as she sought to put him away. "What of It? You are old enough to have sound sense; that's Just what a young husband needs," replied David, philo sophically. Well, there was no use, and flnaly Mrs. Broyles capitulated. S. O. VAU DB BOdSRIX Food Inspector. to the temptation to adulterate. Probably saccharine Is the most tempting substance that there Is. It Is a coal tar product and Is 600 times as sweat as sugar. On hun dred peunds of It will do as much sweeten ing as a carload of sugar, and It will cost nowhere as much as a carload of sugar. -Hence th temptation. Then there ar cat sup In which, with th tomatoes and other b. c injfaiiAW, Food Inspector. things, it la so easy to slip some poor ap ple that cannot be used any other way. Th tricks of th trad of th food man ufacturer are more numerous than the pur poses of this article will permit. It la auf- P. J. MORET. Food Inspector. flclent to point out th general principle and outline th work of th food and dairy commissioner's department tn preserving the health of th people of Iowa and pre venting them from being humbugged. Be- C OTTOS EN, Food Inspector. tween the manufacturers of food and th people stand th state food and dairy com missioner and a corps of able assistants. Hoaeyuoea Haatng. Just married, and happy in th belief that they had successfully "lost" a party of friends anxious to haze them in most approved manner for brides bridegrooms, Mr. and Mrs. George Wesley Chuckhohn of Chicago had their newly begun honeymoon rudely Interrupted last night. A policeman arrested Mr. Chuck hohn on a chargs of being fast that la operating th automobile In which they were riding at a speed beyond that allowed by th city ordinances. The bride and bridegroom were taken to the Fiftieth street station, where visions of dark cells loomed before them. Then a friend of Mr. Chuckhohn wandered In. A second later he was followed by a friend husband, which ta the princely, nay regal, sum of, $3,000,000. This la authorltatlv. But there Is a tiny bit of string attached, not enough to worry you or me, or evea the husband; but atlll a gentle protest against th flagrant extravagance of a Bonl de Caatellane. Ha may use only the Interest of the for tune, the principal being held In truat as a nest egg for the wife. Evea this arrangement should give him more money to spend than any other nobleman In his country, and no objecttens what ever have as yet been heard from hlin or his people. He Is one of several brothers, with only his father's estate to support them all. so won't ha just be too "toueh- th able-,' when he gets home with his big ln- and come In his lnstds pocket and th health hands. of th stata la la good' of th bride, who was Miss Kathertne Swanaey, and after three or four more Chicago New, Patated Paragraphs. The good die young especially good res olutions. All love Isn't blind; com of It la only near-sighted. man may be as good as hia word and still not be a saint. Sometimes a wise man poses aa a fool for financial reasons. How small a doctor's pills are when com pared with hi btila! On of the Important duties of th eleva tor man In an apartment house Is to se that the children are brought up properly. Gleanings from Story Teller's Pack How Some Well Known Omaha People Looked at a Good Old Summer Time Dancing Party Hia t ritawea. SCAR HAMMKRSTEIV said of Ol a theatrical question recently I In New York: uma oi our n: fii fvuri , m heated over theatrical ques tions. We let personal things- rage. Joy influence us. This la wrong. To succeed In this business one mnst be as cool and calm and faraeeing as the young lady of Oshkosh, Mr. Hainmersteln laughed heartily. "This young lady," ha resumed, "had thrust upon her on night the disagreeable duty of refusing a young man, a poor young man, a hopeless young man, an t3-a-week olerk In a dry goods store. "The young man took hi refusal hard, Tou spurn me,' he cried bitterly; 'but yon will live to rue this day. I will go out into tha great marts. I will strive, 1 will win. My name shall ba known, my millions envied. " Then com and try ma again,' the young lady calmly lnteryoeed." New Tork Tribo.no. sums direction of the Postofflc depart ment he took with him a very dignified and gentlemanly old darky messenger. A day or two after Mr. Cortelyou's as sumption of his new dignity tha old mas senger was dosing In his chair juet outstd tha ante-room of the poatmsstsr general when another messenger approached htm, saying: "There' a gentleman la th room acres th hall who wants to see Mr. Oortelyou." "Ha can't see him." waa tha firm reply, "But ha says ha must sea him," pentstad tha second messenger. "I don't know no thin" about dat." rw trunad tha oid chap; "but I do know dat nobody kin sea Mr. Cortelyou. He's jest gone to his sanctum sanitarium." Lippln-cott's. 1 Tmmcm Oaaa4r. Marion Hill' short storte f th stages now ruining In th American Magaalna, ere full of dellcloua fun, la the' February number ta tha atopy f th young aotraas who wa constantly Irritated by th pom pous tmhavtor of th actor-raanagev la Whoa company sh- was playlnc "Now. Miss Duke, said tha great one, "you'll have an prruatty to show your talents In another direction. I've east you tow a dandy part, small but fkt.' And you'll bavo a chance to study ma In a new role. You've neve saan ma da fare ) dy, have your "Tm, I have," aantradteted Iflaa Daks "I've seam your V-anbeth." Aa la4 Jl Ptaiee, IThaa Baeralsrr Ottetalya) last tha D part merit m Oi asm are m4 Xkt U pplytas; Ceari !feeettea. A story, said to Oe characterlaUc, is told of aa Arkansas judge. It seems that when he convened court at one of tha towns on his circuit It waa found that no pens, ink. paper had been provided, and. upon In quiry, It developed that no county funds war available for this purpose. Th judg expressed himself somewhat forcefully, then drew soma money from his, own pocket. He was about to hand this to th clerk, whan a visiting lawyer, a hlgh-prlesd, Imported arttole. brought on to defend a case of aoa Importance, spoke up. In aa aside plainly audible ever th room. "Wall," he remarked, wtth Infinite eon tempt, T ve seen sotn pretty bad courts, but this well, this la th limit!" Tha ell judge flushed darkly. "You are fined twenty-Ilv dollar fa oetssBpt, eirl Band th asanas? to th lark!" aa said, and whaa th pompoua astto had humbly compiled, he continued: "Now, Mr. Clark, go ut and gt wasd puna, tak, and par tha sort aaay rnqulrn, nd tt thaw la anything; lafl mr, yon aa ftra tha tan ft hag t J I .v-? IV,. ; 'f" - s ... ' . est ,naV r.:h fs. ,... - c v rv"- v 1 i X t . A s : v " - V - .- W v ? . - ' ' ' - ' -e ' - .; j,; J t J r '1 ',. sssseoaajjia wm avs crtaymcsar ex &a stajt j&nn ot m atuba.t night &nci3rrLY