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18 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.”