Smother fire with any woolen goods, salt, shovels
of earth, or ashes. Water poured on burning oil,
will only spread it and increase the danger. Before
passing through smoke take a full breath and then stoop
low; but if carbonic gas is suspected, walk erect.
For apoplexy, raise the head and body; for fainting,
lay the body flat.
276 The Queen Cook Book
If in the water, float on the back, with the nose ancj
mouth projecting. Be careful not to swallow the
water.
To Guard Against Fire.
Every person, who sleeps above the first floor,
either in hotels, boarding houses, or at home, should
be provided with a fire-escape rope, a pair of thick old
gloves, and a large cotton bag, a strong cord run in it
to tie it up, into which on a moment's notice, you
could empty drawers, or trunks, or the most valuable
of your wardrobe, or tie up your clothing in a blanket
or sheet to throw out of window. Fasten the iron
hook around lower bed post or some heavy article of
furniture, and drop the other end out of the window,
and descend with gloves on or it will tear the flesh off
of the hands. If there are two or three persons, the
stronger could let down the weaker, and then descend
himself.
Corks.
Corks may be made air and water tight by keeping
them for five minutes in melted parafine.
Is Alum Poisonous.
Alum is used by many bakers to whiten their bread,
enabling them to use an inferior flour. It is more ex-
tensively employed as a cheap substitute for cream of
tartar in the manufacture of baking-powders. It has
not been considered immediately dangerous, although
if continued it induces dyspepsia and osbtinate con-
stipation. We Sire in entire sympathy with the manu-
facturers of the Royal Baking Powder — ^who com-
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m«nced and are vigorougly conducting the war against
the use of alum in baking-powders. We prefer tke
Royal Bakiag Powder.
Adulterations.
We can not be too strongly warned against the
adulterations of food.
WHAT PEOPLE EAT.
Boston, Jan. 8. — Mr. Geo. T. Angell read a paper
before the American Social Science Association here
to-day on " Public Health Associations,** in which he
made some startling assertions about the adulteration
of food. He said:
Cayenne pepper is adulterated with red lead; mus-
tard with chromate of lead; curry powder with red
lead, vinegar with sulphuric acid, arsenic and corro-
sive sublimate. It is stated that probably half the
vinegar now sold in our cities is rank poison. One of
our Boston chemists analyzed 12 packages of pickles
put up by 12 different wholesale dealers, and found
copper in 10 of them. Many of our flavoring oils,
syrups, jellies and preserved fruits contain poisons.
The adulterations of tea are too numerous to men-
tion. Coffee is not only adulterated, but a patent has
been taken out for molding chicory into the form of
coffee berries, and I am told that clay is now molded,
and perhaps flavored with an essence to represent
coffee. Cocoa and chocolate are adulterated with
various mineral substances.
Several mills in New England, and probably many
elsewhere, are now engaged in grinding white stone
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Presented as published in 1895. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
AI-modernized reading of the original text
Smother fire with any woolen goods, salt, shovels of earth, or ashes. Water poured on burning oil, will only spread it and increase the danger. Before passing through smoke take a full breath and then stoop low; but if carbonic gas is suspected, walk erect.
For apoplexy, raise the head and body; for fainting, lay the body flat.
276 The Queen Cook Book
If in the water, float on the back, with the nose ancj mouth projecting. Be careful not to swallow the water.
To Guard Against Fire.
Every person, who sleeps above the first floor, either in hotels, boarding houses, or at home, should be provided with a fire-escape rope, a pair of thick old gloves, and a large cotton bag, a strong cord run in it to tie it up, into which on a moment's notice, you could empty drawers, or trunks, or the most valuable of your wardrobe, or tie up your clothing in a blanket or sheet to throw out of window. Fasten the iron hook around lower bed post or some heavy article of furniture, and drop the other end out of the window, and descend with gloves on or it will tear the flesh off of the hands. If there are two or three persons, the stronger could let down the weaker, and then descend himself.
Corks.
Corks may be made air and water tight by keeping them for five minutes in melted parafine.
Is Alum Poisonous.
Alum is used by many bakers to whiten their bread, enabling them to use an inferior flour. It is more extensively employed as a cheap substitute for cream of tartar in the manufacture of baking-powders. It has not been considered immediately dangerous, although if continued it induces dyspepsia and obstinate constipation. We are in entire sympathy with the manufacturers of the Royal Baking Powder — ^who com-
The Queen Cook Book %fj
m«nced and are vigorously conducting the war against the use of alum in baking-powders. We prefer the Royal Bakiag Powder.
Adulterations.
We can not be too strongly warned against the adulterations of food.
WHAT PEOPLE EAT.
Boston, Jan. 8. — Mr. Geo. T. Angell read a paper before the American Social Science Association here to-day on " Public Health Associations,** in which he made some startling assertions about the adulteration of food. He said:
Cayenne pepper is adulterated with red lead; mustard with chromate of lead; curry powder with red lead, vinegar with sulphuric acid, arsenic and corrosive sublimate. It is stated that probably half the vinegar now sold in our cities is rank poison. One of our Boston chemists analyzed 12 packages of pickles put up by 12 different wholesale dealers, and found copper in 10 of them. Many of our flavoring oils, syrups, jellies and preserved fruits contain poisons. The adulterations of tea are too numerous to mention. Coffee is not only adulterated, but a patent has been taken out for molding chicory into the form of coffee berries, and I am told that clay is now molded, and perhaps flavored with an essence to represent coffee. Cocoa and chocolate are adulterated with various mineral substances.
Several mills in New England, and probably many elsewhere, are now engaged in grinding white stone
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