Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-06

SCARE COOKS
CHEFS WORRIED OVER CALL
FoR PECULIAR MEALS
ones Dlsmayed at the
Rapid Spread Of the Cult Of Meat
less 5anquets Among Paris
Aristocrats

Special Cable TO The Herald.
PARIS, May 5.-Vegetarianism is
playing havoc with some of the high
priced cooks of Paris. 1t has become
so much of a craze in some of the cir
cles of the Faubourg st. Germain that
the cooks are in despair. Their heredi-
tary triumphs in fish. flesh and fowl are
scorned by the aristocratic health
manlacs.
This vegetarian movement is due in
great part to the intellectual set as a
certain class likes to have itself re-
garded.
Prince Paul Troubetskol, the famous
sculptor, is really the head, and front
of this revolution, and scores of his
friends have enlisted with him in the
cause.
"Gyp" was one of his first converts.
and then the fever set i'll among
writer's, artists and musicians.
With this intellectual nucleus there
was little or no difficulty in getting a
troop of aristrocratic DANES to fall in
line and join in the revolution. 1t was
only necessary to make them believe
that a vegetable diet was made for the
preservation of beauty, and promptly
the DANES foreswore all kinds of meats,
to the undoing of fancy cooks.
An American woman was the first
to see that goodly profit might be made
out of this movement. She opened a
vegetarian restaurant in the Champs
Elysees, and soon was doing a land
office business, her place being the
only one of the kind in Paris. Nearly
all of her patrons roll up to the vegeta-
BILE emporium in motor cars with
coronets on them, and this will give
an idea of what class they come from.
At the present rate of patronage for
her stocks of canned California fruits
and wild west cereals and breakfast
foods as tasteless as excelsior, this
thrifty American woman will be able
presently to ride in a motor car her
self.
The general interest in things hy-
gienic is illustrated also in the move-
ment set on foot for recruiting hos
pital nurses from the educated classes,
as is often done in America and Eng
land.
NJ Dedove, dean of the medical
faculty of the School of Medicine, at
a meeting held recently under the pa
tronage of the ex-queen of Sicily re-
marked that in his opinion it was
grave mistake to limit the profession
of nursing the sick to ignorant work.
ing people, who have had no training
for the work and know nothing about
sanitation.
Mile Raymond de Saint Roman is
the chief advocate of this change in the
class of professional nurses. She got
her inspiration for the work, she says,
by reading the life of Florence Night
ingale, and has since studied carefully
the methods followed in America.
Ponderous duchesses now toll up FIVE
flights of stairs in the old homes in
1.-THE Faubourg." where elevators are
unknown. A new school of fashionable
doctors has persuaded them to turn
their houses upside down, giving up
the lower rooms wherever possible to
the servants and to gala reception
rooms, living in accord with the new
hygiene on the sunny, dustless and mi
crobeless upper floors formerly assigned
to the domestics. There is g, new de-
mand for flats under the attics on the
fifth and sixth landings, and rise in
the rentals of balcony apartments over
gardens which formerly were dirt
cheap on account of the inconvenience
and the foolish superstition regulating
social positions by nearness to the
ground.