There are those, however, who will obstinately conduct their campaign
against the adult mosquito. If energetic, such persons will search the
house with a kerosene cup attached to a stick; when this is held
under resting mosquitoes the insects fall into the cup and are
destroyed. Those possessed of less energy daub their faces and hands
with camphor, or with the oil of pennyroyal, and bid defiance to the
pests. With others it is, Slap! slap!--with irritation mental as well
as physical; for the latter, entomologists recommend household
ammonia.
FOOTNOTES:
[3] See Bulletin No. 25, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Division of
Entomology.
Part II
PURE FOOD FOR THE
HOUSEKEEPER
BY
S. JOSEPHINE BAKER
CHAPTER I
=How to Detect Food Adulteration=
Adulteration when applied to foodstuffs is a broad, general term, and
covers all classes of misrepresentation, substitution, deterioration,
or addition of foreign substances; adulteration may be either
intentional or accidental, but the housekeeper should be prepared to
recognize it and so protect herself and her household.
Food is considered adulterated when it can be classified under any of
the following headings:
=DEFINITIONS OF ADULTERATION.=--(1) If any substance has been mixed or
packed with it so as to reduce or lower or injuriously affect its
quality or strength.
(2) If any inferior substance has been substituted for it, wholly or
in part.
(3) If any valuable constituent has been wholly or in part abstracted
from it.
(4) If it consists wholly or in part of diseased or decomposed or
putrid or rotten animal or vegetable substance, or any portion of an
animal unfit for food, whether manufactured or not, or if it is the
product of a diseased animal or one who has died otherwise than by
slaughter.
(5) If it be colored or coated or polished or powdered, whereby damage
is concealed or it is made to appear better than it really is.
(6) If it contains any added poisonous ingredient or any ingredient
which may render such article injurious to health; or if it contains
any antiseptic or preservative not evident or not known to the
purchaser or consumer.
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