The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-05
A TABLOID RESTAURANT.

Brooklyn now revels in the distinction
of possessing the second tabloid restau-
rant ever established The first began
it's career in Manhattan. a few weeks
understood, is a restaurant where
food is served in condensed form
where the patron may take
a square meal in a lozenge that may be
have his dinner in a capsule, if he pre-
fers it that way. But it must be said
that most people, even those who are
sufficiently up-to-date to patronize tab
lold restaurant, become SO ADDICTED TO
eating in early life that they find it hard
to abandon the practice. Thus it hap
pens that at the tabloid restaurant most
patrons prefer their food loZenges diluted
with water-so it will last longer, per-
haps
The tabloid restaurant was made posi-
bic by the recent invention of compressed
foods few years ago. Compressed foods
were supposed to be desirable only as
an emergency ration, but some enter
prising individual found that the COM
pressed foods would appeal to a certain
portion of the public even where there
was an abundance of restaurants of the
ordinary type. Hence, the tabloid reStau-
rant. The place is on Fulton street, al
most directly opposite the bridge en-
trance and it is already patronized by a
large and growing class of we'll dressed
and intelligent people, apparently of the
attracted at first by the novel menu
and who remain patrons afterwards be-.
cause they like the food.
The patrons do not seem to like to
have a large dish served to them with
only a small portion of its surface COW
cred with the edible he is expected to
consume, and in consequence the beef
steak nd fish balls 4,t,s s frloassee
the restaurant in question are about a
third smaller than the real article would
be. 1t is all solid nutriment, however,
and the patrons of the place order the
dishes as though they were really en-
amored of them.
The restaurant is small and unpreten--
tious, but it is kept eXquisitely neat and
clean. Curtains screen the interior from
the gaze of the curious on the street and
they are really needed. for there is al
ways a fringe of small boys trying to
peer in and learn just what kind of hui
man beings they are who prefer quality
to quantity when it comes to SUCH VII
tai question as food. On one side of the
restaurants interior is the usual array
of tables, the linen almost sparkling in
it's starchy whitenesS, while on the othe
side is a counter extending down the
whole length of the place and on which
are ranges bottles, cans and packages
of the compressed foods. For these a
ready sale is found over the counter.
"Who like compressed foods best; men
or women?" the proprietor was asked.
81 think women really prefer them,"
he said. You will find that women, as
a rule, require little food, and ccnSe-
quently they are quite satisfied to ills
dulge in only moderate amount, if they
know that it is of the best. Our patron
age, of course, comes largely from men
now but those who are steady CUSTOM
CTS continually talk to their friends Of
the value of the dishes, especially to
dyspeptics, and the time is not far dis
tant when women will be our most regu-
lar attendants. Just now they buy largely
over the counter, serving up. the COM
pressed foods at their own homes.
Compressed foods are the most digest,
ibie, continued the restaurant man,
and the result is that the cry for TABLOID
food comes mostly from the dyspeptic
class. They find it aids them and they
come regularly. The professional man
of sedentary habits, whose exercise con-
sists in an occas .onal walk, is glad to
find a place where he does not have
to gorge himself to satisfy MS appetite
or sustain life
Most of our tabloid foods are predi-
gested. For instance, 'bromose,' which
comes in small boxes, or in tablets, is
composed of nuts and cereals, sterilzed
in which the fat exists in a state of nat
semble caramels, are pleasant to the
taste, can be served plain or not, as pre-
ferred, and you may make a pleasant
beverage out of it by dissolving in wa
ter.
81 hatter myself now that the menu of
tabloid foods which | have arranged in,
cludeS everything necessary to create and
sustain health, strength and normal
amount of flesh without disarranging the
digestive apparatus in any way. If prop
erly and intellgently eaten compressed
foods are all sufficient and the success
that people are beginning to understand
that fact.