The Connecticut labor press., 1919-04-26
FEDERAL-THE BREAD WITH
 THE TASTE OF TASTES.

"GeeP said Jimmy, we will have to work late tonight"
 That means eats" said Ed.
 So-
 Jimmy went after the ham.
 Ed went after the pie.
 The steno went after the coffee
 Tom Martin and l went after bread.
 Iheie are lots of bakeries in towr.
 But the Federal Bakery Sysrem at 60 Orange street looked good to us
 50 we went there.
 Had to wait quite while because there was such big crowd there ahead of us so we went to see MT. Flagg, the manager, and met his brother and his head baker and looked around bit.
 What do you think? You can see that bread. Yes, sir! Every single bit of 1t. The only thing you can't see is. the store-room III back where they keep their supplies. But they let me go be- hind the scenes and see even that. They use Occident flour and Hubbell's milk and Sperry & Barnes pure leaf lard and nice white sugar. And they have 1t all placed neatly and everything just as clean as can be.
 First they weigh their ingredients.
 Then they mix them.
 Then they gc in a big electric ma chine which kneads them.
 Then they are set aside to be raised.
 And let raise for nine hours.
 Remember how your mother used to let the bread raise in the kitchen on the tubs and cover 1t with a shawl! And sometimes you slept over and 1t raised too long or something? We'll they make the same kind of bread because they let theirs raise naturally just like she did.
 2 rlo fo biscuits in pans of ten.
 And now comes the real reason for success
 The ovens are special Federal oven they are gas ovens and can bake ever so many loaves at once because they reVOlve and give an even heat to each loaf. That's why they look as like as so many peas.
 When they come out of the oven steaming hot they are taken over to the other side Cf the store where girls i'll white aprons and caps, sell them fresh and hot to you and me
 They have very nice salesgirls. One has red hair and so have l.
 So l shall always go to her.
 l noticed that a lot of other people did. too
 She has a nice smile and folks like smiles.
 Federal bread will make you smile
 The nice comfy smell of it makes folks smile as they pass by on the street. l wanted currant biscuits.
 And raisir bread.
 And rye bread. But got wheat bread and biscuits. Cause it goes better with ham end potato salad. "- Wish you could have seen the people Girls and men and boys ana women and all sorts of peonle. Saw one little new bride who didn't know quite how many biscuits she would need for company Wondered if her company was very important but decided when l saw the way she looked up at her big soldier husband with his wound stripe and the Y. D. on his arm that there wasn't any thing i'll this whole word important to her unless it was to him. It's great to love anyone like that isn't it? The boy next to me looked tired and worried and wanted a loaf of raisin bread. Couldn't help but wonder what it was that made him have that worried line between his blue eyes.
 "Raisins are god for sick folks, aren't they?" he asked
 ''Yes, sir
 Min that's goodf'
 The frown was gone and so was he and it was our turn to get our nice warm bundle ana go DdCk to Work ana delicatessen supper. ''Well-for the love of shoe strings" said Jimmy, where have you two been We are passing ont with hunger md thirstP'
 We have been down to the Federal Bakery at 60 Orange street!"
 So we had the lunch-you know pic nic style-sDread on MT. Editors desk with newspaper table cleth and boiled ham and potato salad and apple pie and biscuits.
 'We1l!'' said Jimmy between bites Eve had to wait an awful long time for this but I'll say Federal is the bread what ann" Look for the Federal System Bread with the Union Label on each loaf wher you buy-because Jimmy is some office boy ard he knows what's good.
 HELEN MARY.