The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-11

ounce of butter. If science can furnish
US with the exact amount of elements con-
tanned In this amount of food and place
it in such form that it will be assimi-
lated, the problem is solved. Science
has already found out what composes all
foods; it knows the exact quantity in each
article of diet; the remaining trouble is to
get these elements in such shape that
they can be accepted by the stomach as
easily in that way as in the form of pres
ent food.
AS far as making meats. cereals vege-
tables and fruits directly from chemicals,
that would be the easiest task to accom-
plish, more easy than the introducing of
the elements in the primitive form into the
human body. A famous French savant
asserted that with carbon, oxygen, nitro
gen and hydrogen and a small per cent. OF
other elements, the future chemist will be
able to make every variety of food known
to the race. The food will be not in the
form in which we now know It, but IL will
necessarily be manufactured In concentra-
ted form. There will be little squares
which will hold all the elements and nutri-
tive properties of meat, tiny tablets which
have the same life-giving function as
bread, cubes and starcny matter and even
fatty tissue, and heating food for which
carbon is needed, viii all be ranged in
rows. The essential elements which go TO
preserve mans life will be found within
OF course, as there will be no longer any
need of the farm, the fields which have
hitherto been used for raising food will be
devoted to other purposes. The food Will
not be a great means of commerce by
which hundreds of thousands of people
are employed in tending and transporting,
but the simple elements will be taken di-
rect to the shop of the chemist. Few. in
deed, will be in comparison the number Of
men needed to labor for that which to sup
port life The vast number of groceries,
of meat shops, of bakeries, of fruit stalls
will disappear and the sight of a bit or
meat as nature made it, of a fruit as
grown by natures hand, will be as rare
as is now the tabled hens tooth.
OF course, the chemist must first get
his chemical food in such a form that
the stomach will assimilate it. Then his
work of making varieties of food will go
on, and there is no saying what new foods
the chemistry of the future may not de-
velop.
What the effect of this on the human
race will be cannot be foretold at this
early date. The horse is already falling
into disuse; the manufactured steak will
do away with the raising of cattle ex-
cept for hides. The vast fields Of rice,
wheat coffee, tea and other things OF the
vegetable kingdom viii be of the past,
while the dainty fruits will be grown but
reaper will die away. and we will no long
er expect the farmer to bring into the city
the needed supplies. but in the very center
of the crowded metropolis Will be num-
berless little laboratories where the peo-
pie will be supplied each day with their
concentrated food, representing every edi-
BILE know TO man, unaffected by climate
or time.
The men Of the coming race will be able
&c eat strawberries in December as well
as chestnuts in March. The delicious con-
diments OF the world will be made far
more cheaply than can be gotten from
nature. Every nutritious, and life-giving
principle will be embodied In the tiny tab
let's and there will be no army Of cooks.
no huge, roaring furnaces, but a dainty
electric light, on which square contain
ing whole meal may be heated In i've
minutes. And meat. bread, milk and fruit
coffee and tea. and every other food known
to the human race. Will come each day out
OF the door OF the chemists laboratory
When the world belongs to that great COM
INK race.