The times., 1899-09-17
THE FOOD OF THE FUTURE.
Science May End That Awful ''Ser-
yant GIriv Problem.

The food of the future will be coneen-
trated or compressed. Science has already
done wonders in demonstrating the large
amount of water in all that We eat, and
the possibility of getting rid of it. so as
TO have the food in the smallest compass
possible. Already the housewife hnds
many OF her problems simplified by util-
izing the extracts which are increasing in
the market from day to day. VIII this
condensed food solve the servant girl prob
lem? IL looks as IL il would be largely in
strumental in doing so. When instead of
having to buy soup bone and soup bunch
and cooking it for three or four hours. you
have simply to swallow little capsule or
pellet as plate of soup, and the matter
of housekeeping is very much simplihed.
But the scientists have done very much
more than this. They can at the present
moment save us hours of time and endless
trouble and expense by providing a dinner
of seven courses that will all go on din
ner plate and can be swallowed in i've
minutes The best part of it all is that
you will be better nourished than II you
had sat at the table for two hours, for all
of the waste portions of the food have heen
extracted. and you swallow only that which
you can and will assimilate easily.
When the lady goes shopping she need
no longer sit and fume for an hour waiting
for the slow waiter to bring her chicken
salad and ice cream. but she Will simply
ask for glass OF water and a little
salt, put lozenge of beef extract In it
and have a more nourishing lunch than
ever before. and that without losing
minute of the precious shopping time.
When you come down to breakfast there
neel be no question: How do you like
your eggs?" put you win hnd a little pei
let at your plate, and, washing it down
with q swallow OF water. you will have
eaten your eggs. Do you like milk for
breakfast" Have another little cube; it
goes down in a moment, and you have
had your milk II you prefer chocolate or
tea. there arr similar comDressions OF
these liquids for the stimulating of the
system.
Only housekeeper has any idea of the
tremendous mass of material that is not
consumed and wasted every day in prepar-
ing the meals. 1t is a fact that man
six feet tall eats seven timGs his weight
in food during a single year. II he were
to live on compressed food he would find
that be cons dmed only one and half
times his size. So great is the difference
between the food of the past and the food
of the future. But il is easy to see how
true this statement is by a glance at the
pictures of different foods in their natural
state and compressed. There is an egg.
and its equivalent is hardly more than a
dot in comparison, hardly any bigger than
bonbon. There is a plate of soup, ami
its actual food value is only good-sized
pill. Tea is compressed SO well that even
the aroma is preserved in The little ball
that stands for a eupful The condensing
of milk has reached perfection only lately,
and here IL is shown how small is the
actual contents of glassful of this nour-
ishing liquid. You can drink" a glass
of mineral water by swallowing a little
pill, and queerly enough, ii will quench