Show Ancient Adulterations Adulteration laws appear to have been Quite as necessary in the good old days ns as In the sophisticated Twentieth Century Even en the adulteration adulteration adul adul- of feather beds and bolsters had to be provided against October 5 5 14 1495 1405 Is the date of a tl statute prohibiting pro pro- the sale In English fairs or markets of these articles or of pillows pil lows except they be stuffed with one manner of feathers It expressly denounced the use of such unlawful and corrupt stuffs as scalded feathers or fen The last substance substance substance sub sub- stance Is the same as cotton grass and was evidently In great demand as a 3 fraudulent substitute in bed stuffing In the Eighteenth Century again we find complaints of ot people eople who bought fen down at nt a a. halfpenny a pound anc and sold it among feathers at sixpence |