New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-12
Americans Don't Know
How to Live, Professor
Fisher Asserts
FRlEDA HEMPEL
DIMES WITH ROCKIES
Second Helpings Increase
Eleven-Cent Cost of
Nights Dinner

nor to live, Professor Irving Fisher, of
Yale, asserted yesterday, after he had
taken luncheon with the twelve police
rockies in the experimental restaurant
at 40 Lafayette Street. The average
person, he said, if asked to choose be-
tween a butter ball and a watermelon
would select the latter as containing
the more nourishment.
ave have been drifting for genera
tons, and our eating habits are largely
matters of accident, of imitation, not
of science" he continued. 1--WE know
what science has done 10 methods OF
warfare; what changes it has wrought
in manufacturing, even in our own.
But what influence has it had on our
mode of living?"
Professor Fisher said that the pur-
pose of the Life Extension Institute,
which is directing the present test, was
not to work out the money cost of
foods, but their physiological value
Economy was effected. he explained
not by reducing the energy value OF
even the bulk of food used, but by
choosing foods with the greatest
physiological value.
Singer a Dinner Guest
Police Commissioner Woods, Harold
A. Ley, of Springfield, Mass. president
of the Life Extension Institute, and
DR.. Eugene Lyman Fisk, director of
the organization, wore also luncheon
guests of the rockies. In the evening
Frieds Hempel, of the Metropolitan
sang for the twelve patrolmen, and
then ate dinner with them.
"You young men," she told the group,
"can teach America what Europe is
learning through war. Over there they
have been forced TO live more moder-
ately, and they have found that they
can do it without suffering. | predict
that Europe will never again eat az
much as il did before the war"
This is what the rockies ate yester-
day, the third day of their test of a
25-cent-a-day diet:
Breakfast
Oatmeal and Milk
Toast
Coffee
Luncheon
Split Pea Soup with Croutons
Rsisin Bread, Butter
Tea
Dinner
Roast Heart OF Beef, with StuH1ng,
Carrots and Onions
Whole Wheat Bread, Butter
Cornstarch Pudding
Dinner cost II cents a plate, but this
a man was somewhat increased by the
usual call for second helpings. Ten
rockies sent their plates back for more
stuffed heart of beef. and six consumed
five slices, or two helpings, Of bread.
Don't Get Hungry
"Do you get hungry between meals ?'
they were asked.
"No more than usual" the twelve re-
piled.
"Ill swear on the Bible that never
felt better in my life added George
Resch, unofficial spokesman for his
table mates.
After dinner the dieters lounged
about the restaurant instead Of hurry
ing away as they have been doing. The
change was due to the presence of a
player piano, loaned by the knabe
Piano Company, and half dozen
comfortable wicker chairs. The one
time bare room is gradually assuming
the appearance of a Broadway res
taurant, although the cost of food is
much lower.
Matthew Skea, one of the original
twelve, joined the squad for tea and
toast last night. Skea dropped out just
before the opening because he was
training for relay race, and he could
only partake of tea and toast last night
because his race came later in the
evening.
81 wish I was a regular said Skea
as he munched his toast.