The Delicious Ice-Cream Cone

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 6, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 35.

The Delicious Ice-Cream Cone.

Health Commissioner Evans of Chicago is reported as saying: "Beware of ice-cream. The ice-cream cone is dangerous, but its contents are a hundred times more dangerous."

After stating that glue and boracic acid are used in its manufacture, he continued: "If one person dies from the effects of eating an ice-cream cone, fifty die from the ice-cream. As a usual rule, more than a billion bacteria exist in every teaspoonful of the ordinary ice-cream. For the most part these bacteria are harmless. Sometimes these bacteria are of the harmful variety, and it is then that people die of ptomain poisoning." A word to the wise is sufficient.