Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-09-27

luncher, and with such success that
she mas in operation three scientific"
restaurants which feed about four
thousand people in four hours and a
half every afternoon. She is Miss
Bertha Stevenson, a South Carolina
girl by birth, and within five years a
student at Radcliffe college.
This particular reform Boston owes
to New York in some part, for it was
the influence of New York physi-
clan who makes a specially Of diete-
tics that first turned Miss Stevenson's
energies in the present direction. She
began by baking bread for invalids-
bread prepared from the doctors per.
scriptions, with less of this, OF more
OF that, or none of the other usual in.
gredient. This was done in a "scien-
tific bakery" in Cambridge soon after
she left Radcliffe.
But there was a peculiar difficulty
to be met in the persistence which
people misunderstood the purpose of
the establishment and instead of re-
cognizing its loaves of exceptional
excellence for invalids who must eat
carefully, seemed to think they were
intended to be ordinary bread but
hadn't turned out quite right" How.
ever, the young college girl simply
worked out a more elaborate scheme.
this time for helping the quick luncn-
er in spite of himself or herself and
went at putting it into practice 50
vigorously that there are now three
restaurants conducted In accordance
with her ideas.
1t is no small undertaking to pre-.
pare and serve food which will pass
creditably a laboratory examination.
Think of having set before you bread
that has been tested by qualitative
cumulative analysis for It's whole.
someness and the nutrition It affords.
butter that has been examined scien.
uncaily to see that 1t contains no
trace of substitution for the genuine
article; milk that has not been skim.
heu TOT It's cream; coffee that is made
from the real tropical bean and no.
thlng else; tea that has been out of
the canister only long enough for its
INFUSION with boiling water. And then
think OF actually paying less for such
refreshment than the output of
= the ordinary bakery" would cost YOU
Yet this is actually what is being
done under the management of the
college girl who devised the scheme
She mas no sentiment about It: she IA
levelheaded clear-seeing, ambitions
young woman who thinks she has
hound way OF being lastingly usefn,
In the world and has already nrovod
.nat she is right, to the entire salts.
iaction OF those who have watched he
WORK and have made possible It's sur.
prising development by their support
Inc rood served In these restau.
rants Is not intended TO advance apv
particular theory of diet. which means
that these are not vegetarian insti,n-
IONS or anything of that kind. There
are aiways meat and fish, SOUPS. sal.
aus ana vegetables. fruit pastry and
ices-al the things which the Amer,.
can palate demands. But II ia tho In.
oehtion to have everything served a
genuine article of pure food.
Take, for instance. tomatoes IN ,ho,r
various forms. 1t is not enough that
the tomatoes are fresh In summer
or that IL they are canned their ".ree'
uoh from deleterious matter" is omar.
ahteed. However pure the tomato 10
10 start with, it, fruit acid will afyect
other ingredients with which n is m,x.
ed' say milk Something must no dona
'ouh'eract this effect and Il must
De done with scientific accuracy.
Inc new recipe Is tried In an exneri.
mehtai kitchen until IL is Just right
ana then translated into n formn,a
Ior use In preparing large Quantities
beng a natural cook does nor count
Tor much with Miss Stevenson, She
ana her chief assistants look after
that part OF the business. and all the
individual cook has to do Is To fo,,oy
directions. which is more than ordi.
nary cooks can do.
Together with her Studies IN t,a
seiehuhe preparation Of food, this col.
iese woman in business finds album.
uaht opportunity to study human nat.
ure and some of the aspects OF life
IN a great city. There, for instance,
was the case OF the girl who complain.
ed mat she had very little money to
spend Tor her lunches and that five
cents was too much to pay for n
glass of milk. To Miss Stevenson this
suggestion was worth considering
She sat down and figured .nat she
could afford to pay for the service
waste the washing and breakage Of
glasses and the various other items
properly chargeable against each
glass of milk, and at the same time
make proportionate share of the
modest profits to which she considers
the capital invested in the business
entitled to sell pure, unskir I'D
milk at four cents glass. Accordins
ly she reduced the price and since
then day after day the same girl has
bought for seven cents q simple but
sufficient luncha,,