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

plant. You see by the guide that Menu
No. 4 applies to you, and ask the
waiter for that. On this menu all the
fruits listed are stewed and unsweet-
ened; all the breads are stale or toast
ed or otherwise hardened, but served
with liberal supplies of fresh butter,
and while tea weak is mentioned,
coffee does not appear at all.
Foods for Fat Folks
Menu No. 2, 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 IN Menu No. 4. Members Of the
fraternity of the obese must never eat
any breadstuff tenderer than bran bis
cult or gluten bread. They must con-
fine themselves to lean meat; avoid
rich, thick soups, refrain from dash
ing cream or sugar in their tea and
coffee; use lemon juice instead of
m%ayonnaise upon salads, and never eat
anything sweeter than orange juice or
stewed pears without sugar. for des-
Sert.
There are eight scientific menus in
all. covering a list of 20 conditions, in
Guiding childhood. With the exception
of menu No. 2, for overweight, and
menu No. 3. which is for diabetes. and
No. s, which is for children, all of the
other menus can be used for more than
one affliction. Thus No. 5, designed
to aid those suffering from %colitis, is
also suitable for malnutrition and nm
derweight. which No. Z is for rheuma-
tism as well as neuritis.
In addition to observing the direc-
tons OF the menus. the guests are also
urged to avoid ~r-eating, imperfect
mastication, and mental perturbation
at meals. These hints, which are ac-
cepted with sober appreciation by
those who are accustomed to dieting,
usually create a good deal of levity
among the more frivolous. youthful
patrons who have not yet had occasion
to fear the perils of dyspepsia. As
we were heavily engaged with a bran
biscuit at luncheon, the other day. we
overheard the following ~flippant com
ments from a blithe flapper at the
next table:
Gracious, Tom, this is no place for
me, You know how | always gobbie
at noon. You should have seen the
scathlng glance our waiter gave me
as he brought the soup, and saw that
al tuC iipC wives at my pidtc "Fft
gone. Now / know why the orchestra
confines itself 10 slow waltz music.
It's to keep our mastication from be-
coming speedy, of course. But perhaps
this rule applies only to these scientific
menus.
Perhaps / shouldn't jest continued
the young lady soberly. What is that
platitude about people ~jesting at scars
who never know-well. iBtestinal-tox-
aemia, for instance? / wonder what
it is. 1t must be widely prevalent,
for it heads the list. Why didn't we
try one Of these. Let's see-Im not
convalescent nor rheumatic nor diebetic
nor a victim of angina pectoris, but
what about COLTS? 1t has a sort of
fatal sound. Do you suppose it's any
thing like collie? Anyway, it should
be satisfactory to a famiShed person
like me, for it's the same menu they
give you for malnutrition. Oh. Tom,
= forgot-weren't you dieting to get
thin this winter"
Il was said Tom grimly, land ]
still am. and / intend to snitch this
overweight menu. Wish | had seen il
before. 1t took me - minutes just
now to pick out some mountaineering
food on the general menu"