The mirror., 1919-04-03
ROFESSOR GALE, in the
Ladies' Home Journal of
recent date has given us

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0}4aOHA2H recent date has given us
Eg III picture of something
we have all been dreaming of and
hoping would come to pass in our
day. 1t appears that experts have
been experimenting at Pasadena,
California, on how to live easier
and cheaper. They have opened a
cooking and dispensing establish
ment where goods of all kinds are
bought at the lowest wholesale
market prices, cooked in the latest
way by expert cooks who
know how to do it, they deliver to
families the viands, steaming hot,
three times a dav or oftener, and
at one-third less cost than a private
party can procure it. or in other
words, in all cities, towns, and vii,
lagos, where the people wish to
dispense with the drudgery of the
kitchen. the uncertainty of procur-
ing a good cook who will not pack
her trunk and leave you when
company is coming, for as you
know, the cook will sometime take
a sudden notion to leave you on a
twenty-four hour notice, it is then
difficult to get another one on such
short notice, so you are obliged to
get along the best way you can un-
til you procure another one.
Well all this is to be changed.
All you will have to do is just
place your order for so many
meals each day, using a bill of fare
which is furnished you free of
charge, you are to pick out what
you want, and at a certain hour
aud minute specified, you will re-
ceive a box much on the order of
a small trunk, hermetically sealed,
locked and delivered on your door
step, you open the box and your
meal is found there, steaming hot.
The box has several apartments,
each separate from the other, the
coffee will be in its own can and
sealed up, the meat in
another, the potatoes, bread, milk.
sugar, salt. pepper, mustard, vine-.
gar. etc.. each having its own
place, each apartment is proper
ly labeled so no mistake can be
made. The receptacle will weigh
when loaded from forty to seventy
five pounds, so it will be easy to
handle. Now carry it to the dining
room, open and place each dish
where you want it. You are to
furnish your own plates, cups,
saucers, knives, forks. spoons,
etc., you may call the
family and all may sit down to
meal as good as grandma ever
cooked and about half the price
she would have to pay for the raw
material for the meal if she bought
it in the market at retail prices to-
day. When the meal is through,
just place the empty dishes back
in the receptacle, place on the
front or back porch as the case
may be. and at a certain hour and
minute it will be called for. You
are not to wash the dishes at all,
as this will be done by a new pro-
cess that we are supposed to know
nothing about. the reason you are
not allowed to wash the dishes is
you might allow a germ to get on
them somehow, so you cannot be
trusted with this part of it. The
dishes on arriving at the kitchen
are thoroughly disenfected
and washed and dried after the
new scientific formula.
Now as to the cost:-.The cater
ers buy meats and fish, etc., of all
kinds, by the ton, and by the car
load at lowest wholesale prices. so q
meal that would cost a family of
four, say, one dollar to buy the
raw material alone-can be deliv-
cred to you for about seventy cents
-all cooked and ready to put on