Show TE TIIFOOD Of TilE fJIURE 1 The food of the future will be concentrated concen-trated qr compressed Science has already al-ready done wonders in demonstrating the large amount of water In all that we eat and the possibility of getting rid of it so as to have the food in the smallest compass possible Already the housewife finds many of her problems simplified by utilizing the extracts I I I I I I I < < r h hi i c > 1 i L J I f I c Normal Pood which are c increasing in the market from day to day Will this cpndensed I food solve the servant girl problem It looks as if it would be largely instrumental instru-mental in doing so When Instead of having to buy a soup bone and soup bunch and cooking it for two or three hours you have simply to swallow a little capsule or pellet as a plate of soup and the matter of housekeeping is very much simplified But the scientists have done very much more than this They can at the present moment save us hours qf time and endless trouble and expense by providing a dinner of seven courses that will all go on a dinner plate and can be swallowed in five minutes The best part of It all is that you will be better nourished than if you had sat at the table for two hours for all of the waste portions of the food have been extracted and you swallow only that which you can and will assimilate easily I When the lady goes shopping she need no longer sit and fume for an hour waiting for the slow waiter to bring her chicken salad and ice cream but she will simply ask for a glass of water and a little salt put a lozenge of beef extract in it and have a more nourishing lunch than ever before and that without losing a minute of the precious shopping time When you corrie down breakfast there need be no question HowdQ you like your eggs but you wilL find a little pellet I at your plate and washing it down with a swallow of water you will have eaten your eggs Do you like milk for I I breakfast Have another little cube I it goesdown in a moment and you have I had your milk If you prefer chocolate or tea there are sImilar compressions of these liquids for the stimulatingof the I system i I Only a housekeeper has any idea of I the tremendous mass of material that I is not consumed and wasted every day in preparing the meals It is a fact i that a man six feet tall eats seven I times his weight in food during a single year If he were to live on compressed food he would find that he consumed only one and a half times his size So great is the difference between the food of the past and the food of the future But it Is easy to see how true this I statement is by a glance at the pictures I t I of different foods in their natural state and compressed There is an egg and fJ4 4 < 1 ri its equivalent is hardly more than a dot I in comparison hardly any bigger than a bonbon There Is aplate of soup and I its actual food value is only a good I sized pill Tea is compressed so well that even the aroma is preserved in the little ball that stands for a cupful The I condensing of milk has reached perfection j perfec-tion only lately and here it is shown how small is the actual contents of a I glassful of this nourishing liquid You can drink a glass of mineral water by I swallowing a little pill and queerly enough it will quench your thirst better than the original l It is riowstat ed that a man can swallow a cake of mineral water the size of a visiting card and require no mqre liquid for the whole day The compression of meat has been accomplished to perfection so that you can have arslice of roast beef in the shape of a pljl or a thin wafer of extract < j This food of the future must make many changes in our mode of life and largely contribute to dur health and comfort When there is no more marketing mar-keting necessary no more quarreling with the butcher over short weight and poor steak when Bridget cant burn the stake to a crisp tiny more and there is neither needfor the ice man nor the garbage man living will be relieved re-lieved of many ofihe terrors which have driven housekeepers outot their wits J r l This compressed prepared food will also be of great value tb the workingman working-man who will merely slip a lozenge or two into his pocket instead of carrying car-rying a tin pail full of all kinds Of things that are a mess when it Is time to eat them It must be cheaper than the food of the present for it will be prepared in large l quantities and there will be no waste All parts of the ox for instance are equally nourishing and the neck will be as valuable for t this food as the tenderloin It is impossible impos-sible to think of all the problems which this food may aid in solving But of one thing we may be certain that it will be of infinite value to the explorer and the traveler Polar expeditions be greatly simplified for a man can easily pull on a sled all the food he will want for a year in the compressed form There no more need for whole colonies colon-ies of reindeer or dpgs to drag the provisions pro-visions each man can take all that lie needs for a long time to come But undoubtedly the chief boon of this food of the future will be in Its solution or the housewifes problems of help and supply t < T t t l |