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THE FRAUDULENT MISS
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THERS, fathers, or guardians,
would you take pleasure
in feeding a child
carpenter's glue; or ground
up material such as soap
stone or talc, whose real place is within
a shoe of an automobile to keep the inner
tube from chafing? Would you feed a
child paraffin which has its place as an
illuminant for the manufacturing of
candles, or shellac containing a quantity
of arsenic which painters make good use
of? Would you go out in the garage
and get some radiator lacquer and feed
the child?
No! Of course not. Not if you
knew it. But you are doing just this
thing when you allow the child
to eat lollypops and "all-day
suckers".
Some time ago Professor
Daniel R. Hodgdon was walking
down a street in Newark,
New Jersey, when he passed a
little child about
three years old,
sucking a very
highly colored,
dirty looking lump
of glucose known
as an "all day
s u c k e r". H e
passed many others
as he neared the
school, eating these
and similar cheap
candies. So he
gave one of the
little girls five
cents to go into the
store and buy as
much candy of as
many different
kinds as she could.
She returned with
a variety of brilliantly
dyed candies
which proved to be
colored with such
460
Every Glaring Color of This Doll's Clothes Meant
a Drop of Poison for Some Child's Stomach
material as an artist might use to paint
pictures; but however, too cheap for
even an amateur artist to use.
Professor Hodgdon, after examining
all these varieties of cheap school candies
decided that the most forceful way to
prevent children eating these candies was
to give them the object lesson of the
"Fraudulent Miss." He subjected the
candies to quantitative analysis in his
laboratory.
The "Fraudulent Miss" is pictured
here. Every color of her garments is
dyed with the dyes coming from a few
cents worth of cheap school candies.
The inner clothes and stockings are colored
with coal-tar dyes obtained from
lollypops. The shoes are blackened
with lampblack extracted
from licorice candy. The shoes
are made to shine with shellac,
which was used on peach pits
which sell five for
one cent. The hair
was glued on with
carpenter's glue,
obtained from "all
day suckers". The
stocking at the side
is dyed a bright
rose color, the
poisonous coloring
from one piece of
candy that sells to
school children at
four pieces for a
cent. The copper
plating for the
knife came from a
can of peas. All in
all she is a glaringly
colored example
of the criminal
methods used
in "making attractive"
thousands of
varieties of cheap
candies sold to
children.