The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-03-24
A NEW PROFESSION.
Women Diet Experts and Directors
in Large Institutions.
Suggest Ways in which Food hzay
ne Improved and Cost Les@ened
IAN Important Fame
$50 tlonnry. aat-


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A new and congenial occupation IN
life has opened up for women which
will be suitable to their domestic
tastes as well as fairly remuneratlVe.
The project is to learn the business
of diet control and secure employ
ment MS experts In that line at col
leges, large boarding schools and IN
stitutions of various kinds, such as
hospitals and asylums. Here, accord
ing to the opinion of Prof. w. y. AT
water, of Wesleyan university, IS
profession especially adapted TO
women and in which many clever
persons of the gentler sex are
destined to find employment within
the next few years. Household
economics is study that naturally
attracts women and they are much
better fitted than men to manage
the business of feeding large num-
bers of people Schools for the study
of such subjects are already open to
both sexes and women have evinced
a marked inclination to acquire
knowledge of this kind.
1t will be the duty of the woman
who governs the diet of a large in
stitution to suggest ways in which
the food may be improved and the
cost of it lessened. Not only will
she arrange the bill of fare so that
there shall be the proper proper
ton of fuel food (such as bread and
potatoes) and fesh-making foods
(such as meat and beans), but she
win know how to furnish attractive
combinations, an appetizing Diet
incidentally she will watch the
waste in the kitchen and on the
table and will see that it does not
become excessive.
The Importance of such func-
tionary in a hospital or orphan asy-
lum and the control she would exer-
else, influencing the comfort of all
the inmates, is sufficiently obvious,
while at great boarding school, or
in charge of the commons" at a
college, she would exert a most
weighty authority. But it ought to
he realized that scientific diet con-
troll does not imply the weighing out
of protein and carbohydrates"
in castiron quantities, to the discom-
fort of those whose only desire is to
satisfy healthy appetites. 1t is sim
ply method of supplying the best
and most appetizing things to eat
Mt least cost, with due regard to the
health of the consumers.
The woman dietary expert will see
that the food is first rate in point
of quality and freshness; that it is
nppetizingly served. She will make
a special study of the food market
in order to get the best things al
the least prices in different seasons
She win introduce variety into the
diet in such way as to make it more
attractive than what would be fur
nished by one of less skill from much
more costly material. In short, sht
viii be thoroughly scientific ant
therefore an absolutely capable
housewife.
Most housewives have ideas oil
such subjects which are more or les
elementary; the woman who make
such work her business will hav
positive and exact knowledge instea,
of going by guesswork. In tn
kitchen she will bring into play i'm
proved machinery; for improvement
In culinary apparatus are quite a
well worth employing as improve
machinery in the factory. They say
in the cost of preparation, whic
means a saving in the cost of fooC
She viii have made study of wasf
ing machines and of ranges, and tn
use of the oven thermometer will
familiar to her. For different food
are best when cooked at differen
temperatures, and a knowledge G
this branch of the subject not onl
makes the dishes served more al
petizing but saves fuel.
There is about to be establishe
in Washington "diet Kitchen" III
der the direction of young woman
fits patrons win be largely physician
who win send in their prescription
for meals to be supplied. just as the
furnish prescriptions for medicine
to be filled by the apothecary. Do
tors nowadays realize that propt
food is as important for sick peop
as suitable medicines, but it is diff
cult for them TO control the forms
satisfactorily, inasmuch as the ord
nary cook IS not intelligent enoue
20 prepare it exactly as it is wante
The diet kitchen. however, says Il
Cleveland Plain Dealer, will furni,
meals precisely according to pr
scription. preparing them in scie
tific manner, adjusting with accura,
the proportions of protein" al
carbohydrates" and delivering Il
food three or more times a day
the residence of the patient. In,
dentally. of course, all dishes us
will be thoroughly sterilized, bel
carried back in the wagon to t
culinary establishment for ba
of live steam, to supplement (
ordinary process of washing.