Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-08-25

and work. BY following his plan active
man may buy all the food he can digest
for less than 81 d week. cooking it in his
own room.
Dr. Atkinson has constructed a combina-
ton stove and oven, which prepares foods as
he would have them cooked. He has made
IL free gift to the public 1t is a metal
box, with shelves above and an oil lamp be-
low. Meat, fish, vegetables and pudding
may be put into IL and left to themselves
for while. coming out all ready for the
table. The doctor has given a number of
dinner parties in Boston, with from eight
to twelve courses, the meals being wholly
prepared in one of his cooking ovens in the
dining room. He has made out a number
OF dietaries, varying In cost from Ia cents
day for each person up to p cents day.
The latter represents extreme luxury. DIR.
Atkinson says that nobody can cook prop
Crly on an iron stove or range without
wasting heat, time and temper. He is salts
fed that one-haif of the prevalent dyspepsia
is due to semi-starvation, because the vic
tins cannot digest badly prepared food. He
believes that any shrewd saloon keeper
might obtain considerable profit by selling
properly made. strong beef soup. from the
heads. palates and wel-cieaned hoofs of
bcef-cattle, or lenlil broth from lentfls. 1t
would cost him less than his whisky and
beer cost. and II put on tap alongside of
either would sell freely in place of the
liquor. because more than half of the crav-
ing for stimulants Is due to want Of we'll
cooked food.
Good Cooking Is Slow Cooking.
DIR. Atkinson gays that the days Of the
iron range are numbered. The use of coal
for cooking will be continued only by those
who do not know how to cook. All fuel for
cooking should be oil or gas. He anticipates
the objection as to want of hot water by
recommending the employment of a water
heater. But what shall the housewife do
for hot water to wash dishes in? Answer:
do without 1t. Put cold water or tepid
a N
kerosene oil Mop the dishes in that and
then wipe them. Kerosene oil has an
affinity for grease; it is antiseptic. DR..
Atkinson got the notion for his oven from
the cooking box used IN Norway. When
boiling water is placed in a wooden box
lined with felt and then with metal, into
which a water-tisht receptacle containing
food is put and then covered up, the food is
cooked in the most complete manner after
a considerable lapse of time. The great
secret of good cooking is slow cooking. The
New England clam bake furnishes an
ample. 1t represents a method adopted by
the Indians for centuries before Columbus
landed when tribes from the interior visited
the coast for periodical festivals. The whites
have simply initiated the process.
At a modern clam bake a platform Is
made of fiat stones gathered on the shore.
and these are heated with wood fire.
After while the ashes are swept away
and a layer of wet seawee1 or rockwell
put on, on this a layer of CLAIMS; then an
other layer of seaweed: then sweet corn in
the milk; then more seaweed; then some
fish and Holsters; more seaweed; more
clans; finally. in tin pans Indian puddings
made of corn meal and molasses; then a
last covering of seaweed, and the whole
covered over with sail cloth. The heated
stones do the cooking. Along the Atlantic
coast from Maine to Florida great piles of
shells mark the places where ancient Indian
clam bakes were held. The name of a To-
cality in Massachusetts-Squantum-is said
to mean the place for a clam bake. One is
reminded by Or. Atkinson's method OF
cookery Of the plan adopted by Normandy
fishermen. who start out with their nets in
the afternoon, Carrying with them a warm
meal for the following day. A great pot of
stew or what not Is wrapped in a box with
feather-lined Cushions. After fifteen hours
the dinner is served as hot as II just or the
fire. only three or four degrees of tempera-
ture having been lest. The writer once
knew man " no adapted this method to an
odd sort of purpose. He put his newly
boiled shaving water in feather-stufred
box Just before he went to bed every night
In the morning, being obliged to get I'D
very early. he took 1t out scalding hot
To Keep Things Hot.
In Boston and other cities great tanks
of coffee are furnished for parties and
ptcnics. They are sent away to towns at
considerable distance with their contents
at nearly boiling heat. The tanks are in
sulated and have double jackets, the inner
one Of glass and the outer Of timed iron, the
space between being filled In with a nom
conducting substance. The outside of such
a vessel containing forty gallons of coffee
ut temperature Of PIP degrees feels cold
to the hand. The contents might be kept
hot for year but for slight radiation at
the stopper. These tanks have been sent
800 miles by rail, the coffee being too
hot at the end of the journey to be drank
comfortably.
Nowadays young couples who know how
to manage sometimes employ the services
OF caterer In way that is very economi-
cal He Will deliver two meals q day for
one person for 81 week. and the single
portion is plenty for two. A business of
this sort can be conducted cheaply on a
large scale. the provisions being bought
wholesale. Baskets are used TO carry the
food deiivereds being preferred for the pur-
pose to tin kitchens because in the latter
all of the wards enclosed are apt to get
the same flavor The meals are delivered
hot. with cloths tucked about them so that
the heat escapes very slowly. They are
conveyed In covered wagons with doors
that shut at the back. 1t only remains to
put the things on the table. Everyt thing is
furnished except table-lnen. silverware
sugar and milk. The soup is sent in tin
pals. From the point of view Of the young
housewife this method Is very advantage
GUS 1t saves a servant; there is no kitchen
work to be done, no fuel to be bought for
the range. no marketing, no DISTINGUISHING.
Gov. waite's Possible Correspondent
From Life.
We have to thank the bicyclists. by the
way. for a pleasant thought They planned
TO send message from Washington to
Denver by relays. and applied to the Presi-
dent for a few words of greeting to the
governor Of Colorado. But 1t turned out
that there was nothing that Mr.. Cleveland
desired to say to Gcv Waite. The pleasant
thought is the message he might have sent
if he had cared to express his real senti-
ments. 1t Ia doubtful II there are more
than six men in Washington who would
care to send Gov. Waite a message that It
would be any satisfaction for him to re-
ceive, and out CT those possible six three
are represer tatives of Colorado in Congress
and Senator PETER Is the others.
The Long and the Short of 1t.
From Life.