Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-07-15

Washington, July 12.-Prohibition is
not the only serious handicap that
New York hotels have to contend with
nowadays. The public's recently de-
veloped passion for dieting for one all
|ment and another is proving equally
fatal to profits. People are not dining
out nearly so frequntly Is they used to
lido, because the ordinary hotel menu
does not cater to their peculiar diet
etc requirements.
But there is at least one hotel man
in New York who remains unperturbed
lby the new vogue for scientific diet
ling. He is even enthusiastically in
favor of it, as he has always beer 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 sup
ply them" And he has done so. He
has introduced into his hotel a sclen.
tific diet service, consisting of a wide
variety of menus especially designed
to fill the needs Of all sorts of dieters.
whether they be in the deadly grip OF
diabetes or merely afflicted with over
weight.
We found him sitting behind a flat
topped mahogany desk in his small
balcony office at the head Of q flight
of wide marble stairs in the dignified
red brick building on the corner OF
Fifth avenue and Thirty-fourth street,
known as the Hotel Waidorf-Astoria.
He is a short, broad man, fastidiously
dressed, with a square, impressive face,
black and white hair. and dark, kindly
eyes. His appearance, together with
his grave, courteous manner, suggest
a judge, or a bank president, or pos
sibly a minister of the gospel. But he
is none Of these things. He is Oscar
of the Waldorf-one Of New York'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
Ia culinary artist of worldwide re-
Inown. Presidents have lavished rap
turous praise upon his talents; many
lccstatic accounts have been written
concerning certain of his pre-prohibi-
ton connections. and he had been dec
GRATED by royalty. II he had lived in
another country. he would doubtless
long ago have been knighted. but the
most that he can expect in this country
is, perhaps. an honorary d. s. degree
from some bp~pTetldtlNb uI1NSiSlts- III
Ipressed 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 rheumatism
or high blood pressure? Well, there is
q special menu for your benefit con-
tanning only the kind of dishes that
are suitable for your particular condi-
ton. Here is one to consult if you are
overweight; another if you are enjoy
ing advanced & and still another-a
jolly one decorated with Mother Goose
sketches-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, properly diagnosed,
easily available. and to have all food
prepared to meet the health require
ments Of each individual. All of the
menus were designed in consultation
with DR.. Clarence William Lieb. a well
known medical authority on nutritional
disorders.
The new menus" explained Oscar,
'are extremely popular not only with
the public but with our employees, for
whom they save a great deal of time
and effort. Before they were pre-
pared we had a large number of people
taking up the winters time explaining
not to put butter on 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 I'm
necessary.
Suppose that hyper-acidity of the
stomach, for instance, is your pet com