Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-07-15
HOTEL DIET SERVICE
BY HASKIN
Daily Letter by Frederic j. Haskin

WASHINGTON. July 12.-Prohi-
bition is not the only serious handi-
cap that New York hotels have to
contend with nowadays. The pub
lies recently developed passion for
dieting for one ailment and another
is proving equally fatal to profits.
People are not dining out nearly so
frequently as they used to do, be-
cause the ordinary hotel menu does
not cater to their peculiar dietetic
requirements.
But there is at least one hotel nan
in New York who remains upper
turbed by the new vogue for scien-
tific dieting. He is even enthusiast
| tically in favor of it. as he has al
ways been in favor of anything that
the public wants. 1T is useless to
| complain about the public's changing
demands" he said recently. The
thing to do is to supply them" AND
he has done so. He has introduced
into his hotel a scientific diet ser
vice consisting of a wide variety of
menus especially designed to fill the
needs of all sorts of dieters. wheth-
err they be in the deadly grip of dia-
betes or merely afflicted with over
weight.
We found him sitting behind a
f~iat-topped mahogany desk in his
small balcony Office at the head of
a flight of wide marble stairs in that
dignifed red brick building on the
corner of Fifth venue and saith
street known as the Hotel Waldorf
Astoria. He is a short, broad man,
fa~stidiously dressed, with a square.
impressive face, black n white
hair. and dark. kindly eyes. His ap-
p%earance together with his grave,
courteous n suggest a judge
or a bank president or possibly a
minister of the Gospel. But he is
none of these things. He is Oscar
of the Waldorf-one of New 1ork's
famous personalities.
To the average New Yorker, whose
one and only standard of value is
money. Oscar is known merely as the
highest paid chef in America, but
he is really much more than this.
He is a culinary artist of world wide
reAown. Presidents have lavished
rapturous praise upon his talents:
many ecstatic accounts nave seen
written concerning certain OF his
pre-prohibition connections, n he
has been decorated by royalty. II he
had lived in another country, he
would doubtless long G ave been
knighted, but the most that he can
expect in this country is perhaps an
honorary d. s. degree from some ap-
preciative university, impressed with
the importance of the new scientific
diet service.
Menus For Every Need
Every kind of disturbance in the
digestive tract is covered by this
service. Have you colitis or rheu-
matism or high blood pressure? Well
there is a special menu for your
l--.ax ,Aot,iri~- An1yr fha kinH nf
dishes that are suitable for your
particular condition. Here is N TO
consult If you are overweight; an
other IL you are enjoying advanced
age and still another Jolly n
decorated with Mother Goose sketch
es-if you are a child.
The purpose of the service, as ex-
planned in the diet service guide
folder which is handed to each guest
is to simplify dieting by making
foods for special conditions, proper
ly diagnosed. easily available, and TO
have all food prepared to meet the
health requirements of each individ
ual. All of the menus were designed
in consultation with DIR. Clarence
William Lieb, a well known medical
authority on nutritional disorders.
THE new menus" explained Os-
car, ARE extremely popular not only
with the public but with our en-
ployes, for whom they save a great
deal of time and effort. Before they
were prepared we had a large mum
Der of people taking up the walters
time explaining not to put butter in
this, pepper must be left out OF that
and that no sugar must be put IN
something else. Now all of these
confusing directions are unneces-
sary."
Suppose that hyper-acidity OF the
stomach. for instance, is your pet
complaint. You see by the guide that
Menu No A applies to you, and AK
the waiter for that. On this menu
all the fruits listed are stewed and
unsweetened: all the breads are stale
or toasted or otherwise hardened.
but served with liberal supplies OF
fresh butter, and while tea (weak)
is mentioned, coffee does not APP
pear at all.
Foods for Fat Folks
Menu No. ., which has been ar
ranged for the great multitudes of
Americans who are overweight. also
contains a variety of hard breads. OF
a different kind, however. from those
listed on Menu No. l.. Members OF
the fraternity Of the obese must
never eat afv bread-atu6 tenderer