The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-20
"HAR4BLSAN4HRE NEOP FOOD
HAD THE COLONEL. THE PRO-
FESSOR AND THE DOCTOR.
Il Yves Compressed, Condensed. Des-
sicated, Dehydrated. Aeratcd mt
Csncentrated Fortunately They
Took . One Real Beefsteak Along.

1ooaSc One real Beefsteak Along.
COL William Luoey and Prof. Albert
Blow are at home again, though looking
rather peaked. DR.. Elmer Stack. who
acoonhpatfed them on their climbing
expedition. is still In the White Noun
tains2 i'P~s ".
The ifumor, however, that he stayed
because" he was too played out to get
awayts declared by both the Colonel and
the professor to be entirely false. Ac-
cording to the returned members OF the
expedition IL lie misleading to speak OF
them as the survivors" They say the
d~octoraisn't any peakeder than they are;
II anything by this time not 80 peaked.
The hast they saw Of him he was letting
out another hole In his leather belt. The
professor is quite certain that the doctor
took up only seven holes while h ex-
petition was expediting. He was there
fore. when they left him. I up and 8 to
go. They are confident that he will soon
be on ths home green; or in other words.
that no, will noslopger be out Of touch
with his A inch waistband.
Anofth trouble, II one Ia to believe the
professor, was due to the oommissary
department. arrangements for which had
been 7eftuto the Colonel. The professor
says that O. few days before the party left
for the mountains he asked how the pro-
~visioning was getting on and the Colonel
declared that he had achieved a commits
sary triumph.
sHi6 eye kipdled with enthusiasm
says TIE professor, who likes to be out
Of carshot OF the Colonel when he tells
his story. with a flourish Of pride he
opened his trunk and indicated that II l
COULD stand Joy III large doses I might
take p peep into the compartment which
I uhdsrstapd is by ladies considered
saoredJto millinery.
Il Gan, asSit were. carry a pretty fair
load Of Joy, so I peered into the compart-
r,epts.s II, was fairly full Of small packets
and boxes and tins which the Colonel
lifted cut with o lingering and caressing
touch. He assured me that here was
enough, ,,cosnPressed, condensed. desic-
Gated, sdahydratsd. aerated. concentrated
food TO iced three men for three weeks.
Il am afraid my enthusiasm was rather
less tHSns5 moderate. for the Colonel al
most suffered in his eagerness 10 ex-
plain 10. mo the marvels Of soup tablets,
dehydrated coffee and dry milk.
.'And here he said impressively. here
In this package I hold in my own unaided
hand here are three dozen Of the finest
eggs hens ever laid!
s'You couldn't cut down your estimate
by d title Of tbirty-three eggs. or some
such fguref' I inquired. sizing up the
box. ] have an excellent eye for meas
urements,. .s~a
.I can't take of one single egg said
the Colonel firmly; not ven to please a
friend YOU don't know about these
mattars,s professor. You don't recall
the fact that we fed our soldiers In the
Philippines on dehydrated egg omelets
until they got up a very pretty little in
~surrection. Of their own. Said they'd
leave the army II the dehydrated part
wasn't cut u Of the omelets.'
well said l. being merely a pro-
lessor Of logic and philosophy, I I'M un-
able to see. in the incident you relate.
the sort of testimonial which a really
sensible d~ehydrated egg would want to
carry around with it when it's looking
for a situation
"AhF he exclaimed. the rest. the best,
the dehydrated pith OF the story is yet to
come. Not knowing just how to ma
noeuvre a soldierless army. the authori-
ties ordered that the omelets be made of
genuine unshelled Filipino eggs, all to
mi under q reasonable age limit. 1t
was done -
1'But what do you say to this? After a
short 41perience with the undehydrated
omelSt, ours discriminating military forces
--Dr<QrNhuf IN fharn rna mt q cNaa1u
abandonment Of unshelled eggs and a
return to egg powder they would make
a Datto instruction look like a peevish
kindergarten. What do you think Of
thatfs t.'
sWeii,' says the professor as he relates
the story, IT was evidently no time for
thinking. waute3 to inquire If the New
HAMPSHIRE soldiers had mutinied against
local;efgs, but ] contented myself with
asking IL our entire food outfit was right
there In that batbox.
Mott wasn't. We were to take several
pounds OF ibeefsteak and a couple of
Ia seS Of bread with us. We would cook
ali the beefsteak the first day but would
est oeiy q part of it. The rest would
keep SISTER, being at least partially
cooked;taad could be warmed up for the
s~ecopshfday-c After that, a dehydrate1
revel awaited us.
AThe advantages OF the concentrated
food laid in by the Colonel moved wen
me to. compliments when we made up
our parks for the start. Instead Of being
loaded With Canned stuff, flour. sugar.
butter. bacon, DC. We divided the little
packets and boxes among US so easily
that wsytelt y light of foot as a trio OF
aBetwssp the unwonted lightuess Of
our marching order and the ambition of
the Colonel, who had read that ones
endurance was II per cent. greater on
the kind Of diet he had provided. we
sprinted ahead that, frst day at a gait
which would have put a mountain goat
to shamS,Ss 9G Va ~ . .,.f
AT nopn W made a fire. boiled some
water from a brook, threw in one soup
tablet per man and drank the result from
our aluminium cups, ~punctuating the
process with bites of bread. 1t was
pretty good, though / am inclined to
think we1wSpeSno In a gustatorv mood
10 be dspFhpiRatng. l. remember re-
GREETING that my tongue was not quite
long enodshi 70 resch' the extreme bottom
Of my cup whom after having drained its
contents ] found myself wistfully licking
It's interior surface.
@But IL we were hungry at % we
were ravenous when supper lime came.
As perj programmed programme we
cooked all the ,beefsteak. Our plans.
you reuferabcr. had contemplated leav-
ing half the amount only partly cooked.
But somehow or other the entire supply
of steak was done to n turn when we
sat dowb foceat. 5- &c.