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Show New You city has always beeu exercised more or less over its milk. Atone time it Buffers from swill milk; then it indulges largely in the doubt- lul luxury of chalk and water, and again its babies are fed upon lacteal fluid that has been thinned, diluted or attenuated by tho extraction of its nourishing and healthful qualities. Just at proseni me crj : skim milk, a blue and stingy liquid that bears about the aame relation-! ship lo the pure article, as truth does to a lie. It is alleged that short dia-1 lances from the city are creameries, where the milk is purchased from the farmers and alter being -'prepared," is sent to market. It is set to cool in vessels, where it stands over night, and in Ihe morning is skimmed and carried to the city- The cream is sold to one class of customers able to pay for tho luxury, and the azure-tinted azure-tinted fluid is measured out to the I u a,tin fiinnnt nav the addi- pour peup.u " r--j lional price asked for the richer and ( more healthful article. The papers are charging that infant mortality among the poorer class, is increased, and the number ol poor invalids enlarged, en-larged, by this skim-milk. The enactment en-actment ol a law is called for, requiring requir-ing the milk that has been robbed of the qualities that make it valuable, to be labeled "skim-milk," so the people can know what they are buying buy-ing aud leoding to their children. |