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THE ATLANTJAN
James F. Lynch
DISTRIBUTOR
Anheuser-Busch
: AND
John Hauck
POISON IN ALL FOOD EX
CEPT POTATOES.
35 Doses Taken in a Day—Start
ling Figures Given The Wo
man’s Rainy Day Club.
Mrs. Winnifred Harper Cooley told
the members of the Rainy Day Club
at their meeting in the Hotel Astor,
that the “food goblins would get ’em
if they didn’t watch out.” She told
them that the food adulterators nei
ther slumber nor tarry, and that,
while it was all right to take drugs
under the doctor’s order, it was dan
gerous to mix up a lot of them “In
our midst,” as the bad food people
will hand them out to us If not
watched.
To show how many opportunities
there are to take in bad food, Mrs.
Cooley read a schedule of the amount
of food eaten by one Englishwoman
if she lives to be seventy years old.
The statistics are guaranteed by a
man named Soyer, who, with a pas
sion for facts and, perhaps, an anti
pathy to the female sex, compiled
them. In her three-score years and
ten of life, according to the figures,
the Englishwoman will eat 30 oxen,
200 sheep, 100 calves, 200 lambs, 50
pigs, 1,200 fowls, 300 turkeys, 260 pig
eons, 120 turbot, 140 salmon and 30,-
000 oysters.
“Think what a chance for typhoid
germs!" interpolated Mrs. Cooley.
More Startling Figures.
Also, she will eat 5,745 pounds of
vegetables, 244 pounds of butter, 24,-
000 eggs, four and one-half tons of
bread, an indeterminate quantity of
fruit and candy, and she will drink
3,000 gallons of tea and coffee.
“These next two specifications, 1
T. C. WATERS,
Passenger Engineer Running Be
tween Atlanta and Chattanoo
ga; Also Chairman Legislative
Board B. of L. E. Div. 368, and
Member County Commission
ers, Fulton County.
men,” said Mrs. Cooley, as she
think, must have been intended for
wound up the awful array with 548
gallons of spirits and forty-nine hogs
heads of wine.
“If there is alum enough in a one-
cent pickle to kill seven frogs. 1 ’ asked
Mrs. Cooley, “and if witli a little more
boracic acid it would kill a guinea pig,
how many pickles will it take to in
jure or kill a child?”
That was such a stickler that no
one answered.
“Prof. Shepard, state chemist of
South Dakota, has proved that in the
day’s three meals one may take in
thirty-five dosee of poison.” continued
ilie speaker Potatoes are p«ve, and
it looks as if v.e might have to live
en them.
Prise-veMves Galore.
"In sausagc= there may oe found
coal tar, dye and borax; bacon is cur
ed vith creosote (liquid smoke); ma
ple syrup is made from glucose and
hickory bark, and contains sodium
sulphite; pure oatmeal is eaten for
breakfast with cream preserved with
formaldehyde; blue points are pre
served with powdered borax, and there
is formaldehyde in pork and beans.
Flour is one of the worst things that
is used, as there is poison in the meth
od of bleaching, and there may be
alum in the baking powder.
“So we can not squirm out of the
difficulty by saying that we have ev
erything pure in our own kitchens,
even if that was not selfish. The
country is in a serious condition. The
commission appointed by the Presi
dent has reported that some chemi
cals are not harmful to food, though
Dr. Wyley has proved that they are.
He is a man who could not be bought,
and no one knows what he has suf
fered, for there is no doubt that the
Board of Agriculture is against him.
(Applause.)
“But by taking pains and looking
at the formulas on the wrappers we
J. R. HOFFMAN,
Engineer Southern Ry., and Mem
ber Div. 368, B. of L. E.
can protect ourselves. Some canned
goods are put up under better condi
tions than they could be in a private
kitchen. It has been proved that
things can be put up without preser
vatives, and we can find out the good
manufacturers if we try.”