The Washington herald., 1917-01-14

your digestive apparatus isn't in proper
working shape.
Don't go to til Office of Home
Economics. Department of Agriculture, II
you want to learn the recipes for these
dishes. You will agree that those food
experts don't knew the first, thing about
cooking when You hear of the culinary
art Of c. c. Trevey, chef at the Zoo.
The chef at the Willard, Raleigh, or
other Of Washington's large hotels can
learn much to add to their incomplete
cook books if they listen to Mr. Trevey,
who must cook for hundreds of hunlry
mouths daily.
Yes, will show you through the Zoo
kitchen" Mr.. TreYey agreeably said to
q representative Of The Washington
Herald. but I must hurry because I
am a busy man. Don't you hear those
monkeys screechinE? They're always
wanting something to eat, and only the
very best at that"
And he surely is a man of many wor-
fies. His many-sided job holds but one
consoling fact. and that is, that he need
not cook for the elephants.
While he was telling of his mazing
wealth of kitchen knowledge, Mr.. Trevey
was busily working
You never heard OF such funny and
fussy appetites in all your life," he ex-
planned he rolled balls of fried beef
upon 4 ldDle. Inc meat looked nucn
. like a hamburger steak but had many
bones in it. The balls were about as large
As 2 bowling ball and every bit as hard.
Like Rolling Duckpins.
This is prepared for certain indisposed
C1rnivorous animals so that they can
amuse themselves while eating. They
will get certain amount OF exercise roll
ing these balls about while at the same
time they ges punishment.
Work or YOU don't eat. is the idea.
what is that MIR. Trevey was asked
rs he ioPDcd some black substance in =
l., ing pan.
That is monkey roast. 1t is not mon
/. y meat but mad or that particJisr
htUc cTitter. These monkeys will he the
Ueatn OF me yet.
TO begin with. ne refuse to eat cod
food in cold weather. This nice, crisply
turT ed roast should thempt them tonight.
but if they don't eat it, what then? Why.
thCF l must make something else. You
know. If animals go on hunger strike, it
Is a bad thing. We must find their
stoulaChs somehow. We must Keep them
alive above all things.
Feeding healthy monkey is bad
enough. but when il comes 20 sick
TIonk-I can't exDrcss myself
On one stove, beef tea, which wOulI
make your month water like 4 hydrant,
was boiling. In a firelcss cooker was
rice. In a nearby cupboard were Gus
tards, puddings. pastry. cakes ard fancy
dishes Of all sorts.
Those Sick Monkeys.
And ar Of this was waiting for Mr.
Sick Monk. According to Mr.. Trevey.
the monkeys are sick most Of the time
just like their monkeyshine- Perhaps
they have ICasons for being indisposed.
Darwin was right.
The chmpanzee also gives me right
smart trouble" the Zoo chef continued
with mis- plant. He refuses to eat
anything but roast apple and roast
sweet potatoes for breakfast. and for
lunch I must boil him some rice in which
l mi1 an egg, milk. sugar and salt. If
don't get the proper proportions he will
soon taste it and refuse to eat. Then
l must make something else for him
By this time Mr.. TreeYey and the inter-
viewer had walked into the bake shop Of
the Zoo kitchen. Here 700 pounds of
bread are baked daily for the Zoo popu-
lation. Some black bread was stacked
up in a cOrne.. and resemoled a cord of
wood. This was bear bread and each
loaf weighs about p pounds.
This bread is made by mixing together
molasses, graham flour, salt and other
in the making Of this bread only the
best flour is used. The best of everything
is bought for the animals, birds, reptiles,
etc.
How is this for lesson in economy in
this day of the high cost of living?
Even Snakes Like Chickens.
Every fall the bear are given all the
meat that they can eat In several weeks
they will be rolling fat. During the win
ter their principal dish is bear bread;
they live on the fat which they put on
their ribs in the fall
But here is one still better.
The big snakes sat only once month.
Every four weeks they are given a big
fat chicken with feathers and all On. The
snakes swallow the chicken whole and
will not eat another thing for a month.
Cheap living, that Mice, rats, and birds
are fed to the smaller land snakes, while
water snakes feed on bits Of fish.
In further rambling through T. Q Zoo
kitchen one comes into the butcher shop,
with its big chOpping blocks, knives,
saws. and refrigerators. Nearly 400
pounds of meat are cut here daily. The
lions, tigers an other large beasts eat
the meat raw, while a greater portion
must be roasted, cooked. and prepared
otherwise.
Close to the refrigerators are f.uit cabi-
nets, which hold all the varieties of fruit
that can be bought in the market fruit
stand. There are punches of bananas,
ries, and, in short, everything hat is in
season.
Those Bibulous Birds!
In the basement room Of the kitchen
are long rows OF bins In one of these
are potatoes; in another, cabbage; In
still another. carrots, salads, celery, and
all produce maginable.
In another portion of this room are
bins for fish. About 200 pounds of, fish
must be prepared daily in all styles.
The kitchen contains- all the utensils
Of well-regulated home, there being a
number of automatic contrivances for the
chopping up of vegetables, meat etc.
And last. but not least, is the cafe,
as II is called. Those lighting for dry
District have perhaps not taken into con-
stderation that human beings are not the
only users of liquor. 1t is indispensable
in the feeding of sick animals
But you must excuse me now" said
the Zoo chef. Hear that lion roaring
/ suppose l must make him some ice
cream for a dessert tonight. Then,
still have some of that funny feeling
stun to get ready for Mrs Kangaroo