The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-17
THE FOOD OF THE FUTURE.
Some of the Features of a Very Novel
Departure.


New York, Sept. 15.-The food of the flu
ture win be concentrated or compressed.
Science has already done wonders in de-
monstrating the large amount of water in
all that we eat, and the possibility Of get
ting rid of it, so as 10 have the food in the
smallest compass possible. Already the
housewife finds many of her problems sim
plified by utilizing the extracts which are
increasing in the market from day 10 day.
Win this condensed food solve the servant
girl problem? 1t looks as if IL would be
largely instrumental in doing so. When
instead of having TO buy soup-bone. and
soup-bunch, and cooking il for three or
four hours, you have simply to swallow
a little capsule or pellet as plate of soup,
and the matter of housekeeping is very
much simohned.
But the scientists have done very much
more than this. They can at the present
moment save US hours of time and end
less trouble and expense by providing a
dinner of seven courses that win all go on
a dinner plate and can be swallowed in
five minutes. The best part of il all is
that you will be better nOurished than if
you had sat at the table for two hours,
for all of the waste portions of the food
have been extracted, and you swallow only
that which you can and will assimilate
easily
When the lady goes shopping she nec1
no longer sit and fume for an hour waiting
for the slow waiter 10 bring her chicken
sa1ad and ice cream: but she viii Simply
ask for a glass of water and little salt,
put a lozenge of beef extract in IL and
have more nourishing lunch than ever
before and that without losing minute
of the precious shopping time. When you
come down to breakfast there need ne no
question: How do you like your eggs?'
but you viii find a little pellet at your
plate, and washing it down with a swal-
low of water, you will have eaten your
eggs. Do You ike milk for breakfast?HaVe
another little cube it goes down in
moment. and you have had your MIX. Il
YOU prefer chocolate or tea, there are sim
liar compressions of these liquids foI the
stimulating of the system.
Only a housekeeper has any idea of the
tremendous mass of material that is not
consumed and wasted every day in pre-
pairing the meals. 1t is a fact that
man six feet tall eats seven times his
weight in food during a single year. If
he were to live on compressed food he
would find that he consumed only one
and a 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 a bonbon There
IS plate of soup and its actual food
value is only q good-sized pill. Tea is
compressed so well that even the aroma Is
preserved in the little BAH that stands for
a cupful. The condensing of milk has
reached perfection only lately, and here il
is shown how small is the actual contents
of a glassful of this nourshing liquid. You
.I~ff ~.
swallowing a little pill, and, queerly
enough, il will quench your thirst better
than the original. 1t is now stated that
man can swallow a cake of mineral
water the size of a visiting card and re-
quire no more liquid for the whole day.
The compression of meat has been accom-
plished to perfection, so that you can have
slice of roast beef in the shape of a
pill or a thin wafer of extract
This food of the future must make many
changes in our mode of life, oud largely
contribute TO our health and comfort.
When there is no more marketing neces-
sary, no more quarreling with the butcher
over short weight and poor steak, when
Bridget can't burn the steak 20 crisp any
more, and there is neither need for the
ice man nor the garbage man. living will
be relieved of many of the terrors which
have driven hOusekeepers out of their
wits.
HIS compressed prepared 1000 VIII also
be of great value TO the worxingman, who
will merely slip lozenge or two into his
pocket instead of carrying a tin pail full
Of all kinds of things that are a mess
when IL is time to eat them. 1t must be
cheaper than the food of the present. for
it will be prepared in large quantities and
there will be no waste. All parts of the
OK, for instance, are equally nourishing
and the neck will be as valuable for this
food as the tenderloin. Ii is Impossible
to think of all the problems which this
food may aid in solving But of one thing
we may be certain, that it will be of infinite
value TO the explorer and the traveller
Polar expeditions will be greatly simpnaed
for man can easily pull on a sled all the
food he win want for year in the COM
pressed form. There is no more need for
whole colonies of reindeer or dogs 10 drag
the provisions: each man can take ali
that he needs for long time to come. But
undoubtedly the chief boon OF this food of
the future will be in its solution of the
housewives problems of help aud supply.