Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-01-21
MADE BY THE
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
CHICAGO MEALS FOR MANY
Fad of Chicago Living for Which
Your Uncle Samuel May be Re-
sponsible-Economie Young Cou-
pies Able to Live on Nine Dollars
a Week.

washington, u. u, Jan IT. hLSS
Substantial meals a day and all for
is cents ought to solve the problem
that has tangled the wits of hundreds
of loving but impecunicus couples OF
how to lay up money on SO a week. An
army officer in Omaha named Bean,
has, he claims. perfected this system
and is now besieged with inquiries
about how it is done. The wild
scramble to learn his methods calls at
tention to the interest people are TAX
ing in the question of hygienic diet all
over the country. There was time
when Mrs. Roer with her TRADES on
pics and pastry vas ridiGuled not
only in New England the home of the
pie, but wherever she or her work
came to public attention. Now the fad
S. - be growing rapidly that pies
and cakes are more than useless
they are absolutely harmful, and the
real plain diet well cooked, is what
will make men of Drawn and women of
beauty.
Perhaps the United States govern
yelopment of the fad for recent re-
ports from the various experiment sta
lions conducted under the supervision
of the agricultural department show
that the great hope now is to find
means for combining in the smallest
possible space the highest quantity of
nutritive products. Dr.. A. G. True,
director of the office of experiment
stations, in his annual report pub
lished not long since calls particular
attention to the re>HIts accomplished
along this line of experiment. The
dieting experiments during the past
year have been carried on in dozens OF
ways and by the adoption of many
methods that are believed to prove
that great things are in store for COM
ing generations. Men engaged in many
professions have been experimental
upon, and even the insane and paupers
under state care ard Inmates ofprisons
have offered up their stomachs on the
altar of advanced dieting. The results
are said to be encouraging, not in the
number of fatalities, but in the devel-
opment of such schemes for furnish.
ing food as will result in great
saving of not only money and material
but in the reserve strength of the hui
man system, just rs in any other
machine, by keeping it properly oiled
and adjusted.
So great is the interest in improved
dieting that people in every station in
life are willing to be experimental
on They are willing to have doctors
and agriculturists walk into their
homes and ta5ulate the contents of
their refrigerators and think they are
doing Gods service, where year or
two ago, requests for permission to do
these things would have been cried
out against as attacks upon personal
privilege, and the press would have
been called upon to protest against a
growing tendency of the times to dis
respect for the privacy of the home.
Here is the advance notice of a publ
cation for this year:
Edward Mallinckrcdt, Jr., a gradu-
ate of Harvard university, has offered
for publication his thesis for the mas
ter's degree upon dietary students car,
red on in Harvard refectories. John
p Fox, who was formerly connected
with the nutrition investigation, at
Middletown, Connecticut, has made a
number of dietary studies of profes.
sional mems families in Cambridge
and Boston, and offered them to the
o
ton. Since Mr.. Fox's studies were
made with professional men after grad.
uation. 1t has seemed adsisable to COM
bile these with Mr.. Malhnckrodt' IS
work with Harvard students. The ma
terial, when edited and compared with
the results of similar studies, would
make fairly large bulletin reporting
dietary studies of professional men be.
fore and after graduation"
Think of it. Dietary studies of pro-
tessional mems families in Cambridge
and Boston" There probably will not
be name of a professional man whose
stomach supply has been Investigated
printed in the book, but what sale it
will have The book agents ought to
be preparing their lists OF the faculty
members in Harvard and of the resi-
dents of the Back Bay Who would
have imagined 10 years ago that such
an investigation would be possible
now?
The experiments in nutrition work
that will be continued at Wesleyan uni
versity, Middletown, Connecticut, dur
ing the year are intended to carry on
the work already begun in testing
various theories regarding respira.
ton. There will be rather extended
series Of short experiments Of one
day each to determine the rate OF
oxygen consumed and carbon dioxide
and heat eliminated with men at rest
in different pastures and with different
amounts Of clothing. The scope and
plans of the investigations that have
been carried on under the direction of
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