CHEMICALS IN FOOD.
Increasing use of
Preservatives.
A correspondent of the Times སྙitas-r
CORRESPONDENCE.
(To the Editor of the Hongkong **Telegraph."}
The Canton Customs.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH;
LORD CURZON'S TRAVELS.
Memories of World Wandering.
Lord Curzon's "Tales of Travel" (Hodder and Stoughton. 28.), During the last fifty years a
Sir. The dispute over the Cus-published in which he garners profound change has.come over our food supply. Formerly food-toms Surplus and the threatened recollections and writings of over material came more or less direct have bean so widely commented doas not touch on politics, but seizure of the Canton Customs,30 years, is a refreshment. He now a very large proportion of "pon that it is clear to any dis-recalls the days when, as he says it passes through factories incerning person as to wherein lie the chief zest of his life was in which it is prepared, preserved, the rights and wrong's without and beautibed. and, incident-jany further expression of opinion ally, made deater. This change on the part of the writer.
from the farm to the kitchen:
travel.
Long ago Lord Curzon won his spurs as a taveller and explorer.. and his former books still have currency. But in them he didl not permit himself the free hand
that is here.
bas been accompanied
But what seems rather amua- by the introduction of
ing to me is the melodramatic large 3
way in which Dr. Sun takes his number of insidious poisons
His message or physiologically active subst-Stand in the issue.
This book another is half Their quantity in each the Americans, his telegram
to Ramsay Macdonald,and the like Promised-takes higher place. food-article is so minute that have helped us to picture him in for it stands the hardest test of positive and abrious injury is out the role of one who wears patentiall which is to be applied to
auces.
of the question, but their cumul-
leather knee-boats and carries a
travellers' tales. That is to say,
ative effect in the course of gears revolver and resents anything we find that the personality or even of a generation or two. is bound to become visible. That but his own wrong doings.
revealed is as interesting stage appears to be approaching his favour, we Cantonese do not books if they are to live, and that
Whatever Dr. Sun may assert in
as the subject matter. This TA must have in travel or even to have arrived. Cutz caxat lapidem. The manufac-ssess such poor memories as to turers acted in all innocence andre: the suffering received from is why so few of them survive no reflection is here meant to bei the very hand of one who in his their day and generation.
cast. lenorance and hunian limitations are to blame.
fray
the
The
manifesto resents "ilitarism'
The East, and the ancient gunboat policy." and so forth. thing of the earth, are constantly We do not remeniber Canton as
his theme, though we have For age wine and beer barrels (having ever been bombarded b/glimpse of other lands. have been "sulphured" to repress fungoid growth, a stupid practice, day one but Dr. Sun, who in a fit of mond is romantic, for Lord Cur- faliger last year indiscriminately zon has always been haunted by but excusable while eientific
romance, which, before the great knowledge did not exist. Now dropped some 6m or 300 shells na
the nascent population, causing! sulphites (products of burning sul-
war stripped Europe of its conven- phurt are relarly mixed with as many casualties and great destions, was perhaps, best sought
in the distant Orient. trueties of property. beer auf other beverages, a burk a few years to the reign of Tracing
The e incidents of travel, friend! used by butcher keep the neat Mk Wing Sun, it is still vivid in hips with places and previous free from "in" dried apricots,, some tinned fruits and raisins are our minds that D. Sun had also menores indelibly graven, as he
bombarded Canton
nivete in the preface, solace his; Meached with sulphurous acht.
cruiser.
tell- u- with hours. And there is an:t gelatine meant for culinary purposes is sometimes foreign men-of-war, which
Now,
at the sight of the solace in them for the reader.
RMS OF KALEWAN treated with it. Sulphurou- chorest
Shamern acid and sulphites have marked now and the world knew, not hard, and in the "Drums of He keeps his eloquener well ing physiological action. Sulphur is most frequently aerosipanied
of shooting Keirwan.” perhaps the most not with more or less arsenic, which the husent population butable piece in the book, he subur.
with the avowed purpose,et pro-dinates it to a deliberate art. terting the Customs from being The refrain of the fanatical Gorcibly seized we licar the most and pitiless drums is terrible cry of murder from through ut this Dr. Sun Yatesen. This is a caseid narrative, which opens a window the Chinese proveth goes into the past through which we "What can be done in heaven can are a vision of the fal-e pro-
"cried! Tranny he repeated on earth." phets of farmel. who
thus follows in the wake of "sulphuring."
Hutter.
Creath. orgarine,
bacon and the manifold prepara tions into which buren entere (sausages. ma-pastes. rentain borir grid og borax. This
with ti
intent
WA
heard extraordinary
is limited in butter and Could it be possiate that the right-loud and cut themselves after cream to 24 per cent. Chin of killing innen Cantonese is their "manner with knives and ese PARE. imported in bulk.
reserved to Dr. Sun alone, and lancets, till the blood gushed out contain up toper cent. of
that the presence of foreign upon them."
But the eloquence it is
Wafer
not
ric acid and thence in warships in Canton waters, re- cakes and pastries. Temperanceless of their purposes is archetoric of which he prover beverage gingerbeer, lime-juice infringement upon such rights? and -uchlike frequently contain salicylic or benzoic acid: seven
present circum grains per pint are required forbres, it would be well for the of the great extracts of the effective
The drops bi- tail garine has been known to roa komewhere. This would be the berwar bis has and min away tain the poisonous inutemal sodium tharide. Chiediet hasy solution in the router, and
preservatio
Mare
ú
heer Imported. shipload fall famed with 5-rmaldehyde. powerful and und abtedly in jurious chemical. Flour is bleached with nittolt-
Kasts. arc inpurious with out
which question.
TIX RATES BAILY. Every articles of fat preserved; in a tin canister dissidues were uti the tin coating of the metal and) becomes contaminated with tin) in quantities depending upon the acidity of the mater, the time of contact, and the quality of the timplate. Condensed milk takes! up a mere trace, avid fruits quite) tangible amounts. From every sample of tinned food, without exception weighable trace of tin can be separate 1. Tin - physio- logically active.
-
great reformer
himself a muster is a thing worth pricing in the description he gives
world. partieulds the Falls on passage that is memorable on the| the Zan besh, Then be den a win Code of the desert at the
would save him from universalelen of the Voice of Maranin
enndebunation.
Yours, eti CANTONESE Hogne December 24th.
HAPPY CHILDHOOD.
Is Largely A Matter of Health.
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In the latter essay, with that theSinging Sami-," we have a contribution to hisdeleat and srehunterzie al mese zen. Though made in ample form. Certain and of the desert, and of se beaches, throughout the world. are musical when disturbed.giving out the note of a harp trampet or drum. It is proved, apparente Hy begoted question.
The rihern Mutue of Mem- non at Thebes often walated the dawa with the sund of the snapping of a harp--tring, we and many another though it has are told by Juvenal. Pausanias. has reen silent now for 1.800 year. This is at any rate, a kindred phenomenon. Lord Cur- zon my collected and collated all the evidences the subject, he says. has beeng attracted Mimi and be offers what is so far the best ex- planation of this riddle of the
One of the most fascinating chapter is the account of the author's visit to the Amir of
that is why Afghanistan in 1894. the circumstances of which have not before been published.
the
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The majority of organic acid u-ed in food preparations, such as tartaric and citric acid and cream of tartar, contain tracks of lead, acquired from leaden vessels used in their manufacture. The** traces are small, but by no means i negligible. The British Phar- mifcopatu allows twenty parts good cleaning-out is the first per million to be present. Pre thing prescribed is the doctor served peas, beans and spinach Formeriz Castor Oil Was
"STATESMAN AND SAVAGE," contain copper. adideri for means used to bring about this:
A living portrait is sketched of beautifying purposes, in the form now-a-days Baby's Own Tablets the ruler of the Afghan hordes. of crystalised sulphate of copper, do just the same work, but with an amalgam of the jester and 1 to 4 grains per th
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good of his country. To illustrate arsenic We As a specific for infantile in the paradox of the Amir he gives live in the age of coal. Alet digestion, vomiting, constipation. Son e pungent stories. Indeed, as all, may al, tal is arsenical. In colic, diatrhosa, simple fever, newspaper might loot several consequence arsenic is ubiquitous croup, calde, teething pains and columns of good stories from his Every particle of coal cust worms there is nothing to equal pages, if it were a fair practice. ashes, every tintack and every Baby's Own Tablets. Chemists There is an amusing study of metal cooking vessel. is slightly sell them, or post free. 60 cents the wrestlers of Japan, the fidel- arsenical. Few manufactured food the vial from Dr. Williamasity of which will be recognised] materials or food ingredients Medicine Co., 6 Kiange Road. by those who have seen are entirely free from it. The Shanghai.
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cumbrous antics of these flesy prodigies.
The Pages from a Diary" and) whence it also enters into food. organism can stand it indefinitely. humours of travel give a succes- The Royal Commission on Ar- All these facts have been repre- sion of vivid pictures, and range senical Poisoning, recognising sented by public analysts in their from the shrine of Nejef to the this ubiquity. limited the per-quarterly or annual reports for bull-ring of Malaga. from St.
To the Editor of the North missible quantity to 1/100th grain many years past without tangi- Helena to Annam. Lord Curzon per pound in solid and 1100th ble effect upon Legislature. No is on terms with Sheikh and China Daily News-Sir.-The grain per gallon in liquid foods. other national question cries so Amir, Prince or Prophet, and sees following simple mnemonic may Clearly, we are bombarded urgently for a remedy, not for the world of men from the top be found. useful by those who with chemicals and poisons reports by Committees or Royal downwards; but he writes as have any difficulty in remember- at Commissions or burial in Blue easily of robbers and runaways. ing Chinese sequence of the quantitios
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