Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1910 — Circus Lemonade Tabooed in Kansas [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Circus Lemonade Tabooed in Kansas

TOPEKA, Kan.—Dr. s. J. Crumbfne, secretary of the Kansas board of health, has put his official -foot into the mixture always present at circuses, fairs, Fourth of July celebrations, picnics and other gatherings of a like “nature. This mixture is known as lemonade—according to the barker who spiels before the refreshment stands. Generally It is something that looks a little like lemonade because there is a lemon peel in the tub, but It hasn’t the taste of the refreshing beverage mother makes. Since the memory of man runneth not to the contrary, the one chief delight of the small boy and girl and the big boy and his sweetheart has been to drink circus lemonade at the circus fair or picnic. No one knows who invented the

glad refrain of the lemonade. stand barker, who in stentorian tones, calls: “Lemo, lemo, lemonade, Made in the shade, Stirred with a spade— Five cents a big glass!” These things have been among th© sights and sounds of all picnics, celebrations and fairs and circuses since Kansas became a state. But no more will one hear these sounds or drink the lemonade” about Kansas unless the dispenser has real lemonade to sell. The state board of health has put a damper on the noise of the barker because the board of health has ruled that a tub of water, in which is put some tartaric acid and saccharine and the peel of a lemon is not lemonade, but the imitation article, and cannot be sold as the real thing. In Kansas all lemonade offered for sale must be made from the Juice of lemony water and sugar only. Imitation lemonade can only'be made from citric acid and sugar and water. Th® use of the most common materials for making fake lemonade, tartaric add and saccharine, is absolutely prohibited in this state.