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Show Pure Fruit Syrups. Philadelphia Press. If the man who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is entitled to be tailed a public benefactor, certainly the man who turns an odious stench into a pleasing fragrance has a claim for credit which may not be ignored. "The days of necromancy are not past, they are only beginning, and in a dingy red brick house on the ea6t side of this city a striking strik-ing example of this fact may be seen at anv time. There is probably no person who regards rancid butter as anything but a highly offensive of-fensive substance and there are few, outside the unitiated, who can think of any better use to be made of it than to throw it into the ash barrel. The initiated know better. There are few housewives and cooks, who when they flavor their custards, pies, cakes, etc., with delicious essence of pineapple, do not imagine that tons of that lucious tropical tropi-cal fruit are daily gathered by dusky natives from waving palms and amid scenes of harvest revelry, and then squeezed of their fragrant juice for the special benefit of the American palate. But the "trade" kn -ws that the pineapple oil of commerce is really butyric ether, Now, there is no cause for alarm to the I reader who first becomes aware of that fact by reading this article. Butyric ether is a charmingly fragrant, innocuous, and delightful de-lightful substance, and if the genuine pineapple pine-apple itself were not pretty full of it that much-prized fruit would command no better nripp than turning, rjerhans not as good. The only startling feature is the fact that butyric ether, which tastes and smells so good iu custard or soda water, is produced from the most horribly rancid butter. Turning Turn-ing pure water into wine seems simple alongside this modern miracle. The miracle worker takes his rancid butter and mixes it into a soapy lather with potash and sulphuric acid at first. This results in a thin oily liquid which has even a more persistently per-sistently rancid odor than the butter had at first. It is then called butyric acid. Being distilled with alcohol and more sulphuric acid, the marvelous result is a fragrant and altogether delightful substance known as butyric ether of pinneapple oil. Used in moderation it does no harm to the stomach, but it should not be used as a perfume, because be-cause when inhaled it ten Is to cause irrita-1 irrita-1 tion of the air tubes and intense headache. |