Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-18 | Page 25 | Harms Had Rare Collection of Foods

IMS HAS IE COLLECTiiOF FOODS Tomato Catsup That Isn't and Other Fabrications Adorn Shelves. Concoctions without prico are contained con-tained in the museum exhibit of Herman Her-man Harms, state chemist, at the cap-itol, cap-itol, and this neatly arranged exposition attracts many visitors to the state ap-itol ap-itol both week days and Sundays. ' Neatly assorted and labeled, there are arranged on shelves liquids and solids of wonderful composition, which can neither be purchased from the chemist of the state of Utah nor from their original sources, the merchants from whom they have been taken in recent re-cent years, prior to and just following the nation-wide insistence upon pure drugs and foods. There is some beautiful red tomato catsup, pleasing to the eye, and possibly pos-sibly to the palate, but said to have an antipathy against the stomach. It is composed of a composition of squash and pumpkin, tinctured with the proper coloring and embalmed with the pre--servatives that might have kept a mummy mum-my of the prehistoric ages together to be a modern-day wonder. There is licorice without the lick and pepper without the pep required by law. There is some olive oil and other oilr fabrications and mixtures, ingenuously labeled as from sunny Italy and southern south-ern France, that the state chemist knows were home products in Salt Lake in the old days when home products were not appreciated as they are today, to-day, and when even the most simple combination of ingredients had to carry the foreign label to be bought and appreciated ap-preciated by the American purchasing public. But these times are past and gone. Things in the food and drug line must, now be genuinely- what they seem and must bear a label setting forth their characteristics. And so money cannot duplicate tho pumpkin-squash, tomatn-lcss tomatn-lcss catsup any more than one would care to counterfeit money or pass bad checks.