The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-05-22
GETTING IT DOWN FINE.

who Is all the time figuring away to
show the unequal distribution of
wealth, the relationship between a cold
winter and the consumption of coal,
the comparative cost of feeding servant
| girls. running railroads and keeping
hens. or the solution of some other
| equally intricate and interesting social
| problem, has taken a new tack and Is
now employed in experimenting to pro-
duce an article of food which will be
palatable and healthful, and upon
which a man will be able TO live well
ut a cost of ten cents a day. IL is to he
composed of such cereals rs oats and
corn meal, raw wheat, barley and rye,
which are TO be cleaned, steam cooked
and pressed into bricks.
This is a worthy ambition and the
world will wish the ph~ilanthrOpist all
manner of success. The idea cannot
be called strictly original with MIR. At
kinson, for years ago bio Lewis wrote
a book advocating cheap living and
showing by,his W experience how it
was possible to live and grow fat at
the moderate expense of a fraction I'M
der six cents per day. Mr.. Lewis, how
ever, varied his diet from meal to meal.
Mr.. Atkinson's scheme is of a broader,
more comprehensive character. lie
reasons that "a laboring man does not
possess a sufficient knowledge of the
chemical ingredients of foods to know
Just when TO switch OFF from oat meal
to graham, from graham to cracked
wheat, from cracked wheat to hasty
pudding and from hasty pudding to
fried mush. \ man like bio Lewis
might diagnose himself from day TO
day, and, taking an inventory of the
stock of carbon, hydrogen and other
elements his system had on hand. know
just what supplies to lay in on the NOR
row. Obviously the laboring man
would be unable to do this satisfaction
lily unless he retained the services of an
accomplished psychologist, and under
such a plan it is rather doubtful wheth.
er the laboring man would be able to
effect any considerable saving in the
end even supposing he succeeded i'm
reducing the cost of living to II mini
mum of three cents per day.
MI. hthiiisoHi, tiicieioIt, opoSSS W
do all the chemical work In advance.
lie is undertaking to manufacture a
product which shall combine, i'm just
the proper proportions. allthe elements
necessary To the successful prOlonga-
ton of life. The vexed question of
purchasing u variety of relishable food
on a limited amount of capital need no
longer bother the labOring man or his
toiling wife. Mr.. Atkinson is not only
solving this problem for them, but is
also endeayoring to curtail their pro-
vision bill in a n certain to coli
found and possibly bankrupt their
grocer and baker and sausage maker.
Welcome the day when Atkinson's
celebrated amalgamated, steam-cooked.
genuine compressed cereal brick hash
is placed upon the market at 10 cents a
brick. three for a quarter beware of
spurious articles fOisfed upon the pub
lie by INSCRIPTIONS manufacturers; N
of Atkinson's superior brick bats,
warranted to make a laboring man
work like a horse for ten hours and
sustain his life the remaining fourteen,
or money refunded.
With such men as Atkinson looking
after him, the popular conception of
the laboring man must undergo a
slight modification. lie must be con-
sidered rs a machine: and with Akin.
sons bricks TO put into him at stated
intervals he is expected to operate on
the same admirable principle as the
nickel in-the-slot machine. The brick
is calculated 10 develop the highest
possible quantity Of physical force at
the smallest possible cost. The inyen-
ton is of especial interest to Mr..
Carnegie and other republican manu-
facturers, AS it will certainly enable
them 10 make such reyisions in their
schedules of wages as will handsomely
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