HOME AND EDUCATION
Follette, Belle Case La & Hunt, Caroline L.
HOME AND EDUCATION The home is the real seat of government, and the Wise Men of all nations bring their gifts to the cradle. Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Something More...
...Answer: No...
...it seems to interpret so much of the restlessness of the young people about us, young people who have been trained "to act only under literary suggestion," those who are so sheltered and pampered that they have no chance even to make 'the great refusal' as she describes the failure to respond to and relieve suffering, and those who do not know "the solace of daily activity...
...Fahrney's Teething Syrup (morphine and chloroform...
...Miller's Anodyne for Babies (morphine sulfate and chlorahydrate...
...1 teaspoonful salt...
...This catsup was being shipped from New York to Louisiana in barrels and in bottles contained in a barrel and labeled further: "Hotentot Catsup...
...Koepp's Baby's Friend (morphine sulfate...
...Benzoate of Soda IN the discusion of food preservatives which follows, this is said: "A bitter fight has waged between the two factions...
...A table shows the relative amount of water and tomatoes in sixty-three different brands in which the amount of solid tomatoes in the large-sized cans varied from seven to twenty-three ounces...
...Thirty-one of these are shown to be "misbranded...
...Daily Ways to Health MANY requests have come to us for the name of the publisher of Mrs...
...Grove's Anodyne for Infants (morphine and sulfate...
...It may be in contrast to this," she says "that one of the most piteous aspects in the life of city children, as I have seen it in the neighborhood of Hull House, is the constant interruption to their play which is inevitable on the streets, so that it can never have any continuity,—the most elaborate 'plan or chart' or 'fragment from their dream of human life' is sure to be rudely destroyed by the passing traffic...
...Answer: No...
...There is a story of a woman who left her husband because he did not support her and who afterward attributed the waywardness of her children to the fact that they had lost the admirable control which their father had had over them...
...It is used for the purpose of deception and to cover up or conceal inferiority...
...Nitrogen peroxide as a bleaching agent is now overthrown, but in Europe, we are told, they are using what is known as "Enzyme Flour...
...and about once in two or three weeks would come to the Doctor and say, 'Doctor, my digestion is all knocked to pieces...
...Readers, what do you think of a list like this...
...The bulletin further discusses the subject of the weight of bread, and publishes an analysis of wines...
...2. Is the preparaiion a proper remedy for the treatment and cure of acute catarrh...
...This is to be added to the flour when it is milled so that the product will give a larger loaf of bread and a whiter loaf than where the flour has not been so treated...
...can't you give me something to help me?' A cathartic and tonic would be prescribed, and they would go back to their old diet, only to return again in a few weeks to the Doctor...
...5. Was the 26 per cent, or 27 per cent...
...They allege "that the products so shipped were adulterated in that they consisted in whole or in part of filthy, decomposed and putrid vegetable substances...
...3. Is the preparation a proper remedy for the treatment and cure of chronic catarrh...
...This helpful and interesting volume may be purchased of The Huebsch Publishing Company, 225 Fifth Ave., New York City, for $1.50...
...Twenty Years of Hull House THOSE who thought that Miss Addams' "Twenty Years of Hull House" in bock form would be merely a bringing together of the magazine articles recently published under the same title have been very happily disappointed...
...Childrens' Comfort (morphine sulfate) Dr...
...2. Floors, walls, fixtures, screens, etc...
...even in those cases there are oils the burning quality of which must be classed as poor...
...Bake well in a moderate oven...
...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Something More of the Work of the North Dakota Pure ood Bureau HERETOFORE I have spoken of the great practical usefulness of the bulletins of the food department of the North Dakota Agricultural College, Mr...
...The amount of water ranged from ten and one-half to twenty-nine ounces...
...I can but wonder," she adds, in which particular we are most stupid,—to judge a man's worth so solely by his earning capacity that a good wife feels justified in leaving him, or in holding fast to that wretched delusion that a woman can both support and nurture her children...
...It a record of successive impressions which have gradually woven into a beautiful and kindly philosophy...
...4. Blocks, instruments, etc...
...There is no claim that the product adds any nutritive value, or improves the quality of the product in any way...
...Six contain benzoate of soda or other chemicals and just four were "passed" as being what they represented to be...
...Emily Bishop's book, "Daily Ways to Health" (reviewed in these pages, December 10...
...Fowler's Strawberry and Peppermint Mixture (morphine...
...Absolutely guaranteed...
...Moffet's Teethina, Teething Powders (powdered opium...
...If it could be there would be no mothers too busy to care for their children...
...2 cups bran...
...We amend, "read the labels with the help of the North Dakota pure food bureau...
...In the chapter on "Earliest Impressions" she tells how she and her brother playing in the open country used to carry on "games and crusades which lasted week after week, and even summer after summer...
...The November bulletin is a good illustration...
...one, the scientific and progressive food officials with the support of the American physicians, the other, favoring the use of benzoate of soda and includes certain manufacturers and certain food officials including some of the national officials...
...Slaughter Houses UNDER this heading is given a summary of the North Dakota law relating to slaughter houses...
...IN Miss Addams' world the measure of a man would not be exclusively his power to make money...
...There would be faith in the ideals of the young...
...Therefore, Peruna would seem to be just a plain, mild "booze," a form of intoxicating beverage, not a medicine and not a cure for the diseases claimed...
...1 cup flour...
...It would be difficult to read this book just as it is difficult to hear Miss Addams speak without thinking how much better the world would be if it could be remodeled according to her ideals...
...While the punishment of crime is necessary, the crowning achievement will not be the punishment of crime, nor even the reformation of the criminal, but the prevention of crime.— Charles R. Henderson...
...It seems that the question was put before the jury on this point in such a way that they could give the answer yes or no...
...Scarcely more than one-third of the oils can be listed, in all respects, as high grade oils for illuminating purposes, and very few of them belong to the class having a gravity of 46 degrees or more...
...The recipe is as follows: 5 tablespoons syrup...
...The score is based on: 1. Ventilation and light...
...Naturally, the question brought before the jury was to determine whether the product was a medicine or a beverage...
...Are you using them, feeding the little ones opium, morphine, chloral hydrate and like products in order to stupify and not help their suffering...
...We have frequently advised purchasers to "read the labels...
...The use of this class of products is certainly to be condemned, and the list as given by the U. S. Government Chemists includes the following preparations: Mrs...
...That food preservatives do affect the health of the people may be illustrated from the experience of the writer: Several years ago the use of preservatives in meats was condemned, and many butchers were prosecuted and fined ir North Dakota until finally the use of preservatives in all classes of meats, particularly hamburger meats and sausage, was discontinued...
...Answer: No...
...3. Refrigerator...
...Many of his patients had taken their meals at the restaurants and cheap boarding houses where this class of meats, preserved with borax and sulfites, were in use...
...A table with the names and addresses, date of inspection, and score of eighty-three different slaughter houses inspected throughout the state is given...
...Answer: No...
...The publicity they give to the results of their investigations and chemical analysis is just what is needed to make the work most effective and clinching...
...5. Personnel...
...Peruna—A Medicine or a Beverage IT IS SAID that a suit was brought against a druggist in Syracuse, N. Y., for selling Peruna without a saloon license...
...Goosie" was killed one day and after the funeral his mother begged that some one would give her one day's wages in order that she might stay home for a day and hold her baby because "Goosie" had so often asked her to hold him and she had never had time...
...that the catsup contained in the bottles above referred to was misbranded in that the labels thereon above set forth are false and misleading in the statement that only the purest ingredients are used in said catsup, when in truth and in fact, the catsup consists in whole or in part of filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable substances...
...A representative of the company appeared as their agent ana admitted the truth of the allegation in the libals and the court ordered the United States Marshal to destroy the catsup...
...E. F. Ladd, commissioner...
...1/2 teaspoonful soda...
...James Soothing Syrup (heroin...
...1 cup sweet milk...
...Following are the questions as presented to the jury for their findings: "1...
...The conclusion reached by the bureau is stated in this language: "It is clearly evident, therefore, that several of the oils reported upon can hardly be expected to give satisfactory results in practical daily tests for an oil containing a heavy residue Is going to be deficient in burning power in the ordinary lamp...
...Following are the warnings given in the bulletin, relative to the use of drugs: "The Baby-Killers" THE Food Department of the United States has published a list of medical preparations, "soothing syrups," which are referred to as "baby-killers...
...of alcohol contained in the preparation necessary to hold the drugs actually put there in solution...
...Illuminating Oils '•PT^HE oil inspection law of North Dakota makes it the _1_ duty of this department to make certain tests for the j- ' y >f illuminating oils when such oils are properly submitted to cite department.' A table is given of tests for a number of oils a£-submitted from different parts of the State of North Dakota...
...Victor Infant Relief (chlodoform and cannabis indica...
...The writer has tried this bread and finds that it is very appetizing...
...The bulletin goes thoroughly into the subject of canned tomatoes, their grade and weight...
...The illustrations, too, are a pleasant surprise comprising, as they do, reproductions of pen and ink sketches by one of the residents of Hull House, Miss Norah Hamilton, of drawings by Alice Kellogg Tyler, a friend of Hull House who long since died and of photographs by Lewis W. Hine...
...Now what did the government find as stated in the notice they have sent out...
...Answer: No...
...Consider the effect of this plan of publicity upon both the owners and the patrons of meat markets...
...Many of the incidents in the story are much enlarged ana the book contains more than twice the material previously published...
...THERE would be a place for children to play in Miss Addams world—a very big place...
...Then follows a statement of the analysis of 64 brands of food products—ketchup, sardines, corn, sausage, vanilla extract, ice cream and so forth—recently examined in the laboratory...
...6. Was the quantity of drugs contained in one bottle if given according to directions, sufficient to produce any appreciable effect...
...In many ways the chapter on "the snare of preparation," which we "spread before the feet of young people, hopelessly entangling them in a curious inactivity at the very period of life when they are longing to construct the world anew and to conform it to their own ideals" is the most suggestive of all the chapters...
...Winslow's Soothing Syrup (morphine sulfate...
...We quote from two of these cases: 1 Extra Spiced O. K. Catsup, Alert and McGuire, New York, containing 1-10 of 1% of benzoate of soda, used as a preservative...
...It can hardly be said that all of the oils reported upon contain out a trace of sulphur, for there are some that contain twenty times that contained in the hwest...
...The Court then seemed to have settled the question with regard to the standing of this well-known product...
...This idea has been scoffed at by the manufacturer, and yet we have two specific instances recently, where, under the National Food Law, dealers, whose products are sold in North Dakota, have been seized, condemned, and ordered destroyed by the courts because of this particular fact...
...Answer: No...
...Ten are "illegal...
...A prominent physician in one of our leading towns said to the writer that the enforcement of this law had deci cased more than one-half his office practice...
...Is the preparation contained in five bottles of Peruna, consisting of alcohol, water and certain drugs, a proper remedy for the treatment and cure of Bright's Disease...
...when added to flour it produces fraudulent effects...
...Twenty Years of Hull House" is more than an autobiography...
...Next is this, relating to— Rotten Tomatoes and Catsup THIS department has repeatedly called attention to the fact that rotten tomatoes and products which were decomposed and unfit for food products, were made to serve as the basis for tomato catsups, thus making it necessary to use a chemical preservative like benzoate of soda and certain condimental flavors in order to cover up the condition of the product which has been employed in the preparation of the lower grades of tomato catsups...
...Only the purest ingredients used in the mixture...
...Following the analysis of foods is this recipe for— Bran Bread AFRIEND, who has had considerable experience and who foryears had been a sufferer from constipation, stated that by the use of bran bread, made in accordance with the following formula, he was able to discard the use of all medicines in a short time, and found himself again in a normal condition...
...Hooper's Anodyne, Infants Grand (morphine hydrochloride) . Jadway's Elixir for Infants (Codeine...
...Yet there are manufacturers who say that chemical preservatives are harmless in food products...
...It begins with a discussion of "Enzyme Flour," and says: "There is no end to frauds and fakes, and as soon as one is out of the way, another comes to take its place...
...Although they start over and over again, even the most vivacious become worn out at last and take to that passive "standing 'round" varied by rude horseplay, which in time becomes so characteristic of city children...
...Enzyme Flour is a fraud...
...4. Is the preparation a proper remedy for the treatment and cure of the mucuous membrane...
...Fehy's Pepsin Anodyne Compound (morphine sulfate...
...In the chapter on "Problems of Poverty" she tells the story of "Goosie," the little boy whose mother worked in a feather duster factory and who, carried each morning to the day nursery in his mother's shawl, always had his hair stuck full of down and small feathers which gave him his nick name...
...After two years of enforcing this law the Doctor states that practically all these patients had drifted away from him and no longer needed his services...
Vol. 3 • January 1911 • No. 1
