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Show WASTE OF FOOD. The story of the experience of the Gerard party in traveling from Berlin gives an interesting side light about food. They tell how, after the scanty focid conditions in Germany, the comparatively free use of food in Paris seemed perfect waste. Yet no doubt after the party get home, the use of food in this country seemed far more wasteful than in France. And yet our papers are full of food scarcity. But few people take much pains to conserve con-serve such parts of the food supply as come under their own control. The waste of good food in hotels and restaurants, when prices are so high and so many people are suffering, suffer-ing, it, pitiful. People order lavish table d'hote dinners, they demand a dozen dishes and only taste 'a little of each, and all the rest goes to the garbage pail, or is supposed to. Perhaps the restaurants get more than the publip i realizes. But at least there is a great and lavish rejection rejec-tion of good food. 1 Of late years the European plan of operating dining rooms has become more general. It tends greatly to reduce re-duce the amount of food consumed. Once people realize 1 that they have to pay for what they eat, they confine their orders to what they really want. It is the only sound basis for operating an eating room business. Most hotel proprietors would be glad to put it in. It is in quite general gen-eral use now in city hotels and on railroad trains. It is not yet popular in boarding houses and resort hotels, where a course dinner on the wasteful American j)lan somehow seems move liberal. In private homes the same spirit prevails to a large extent. We all help ourselves to a mammoth potato when half of it would give all that anyone wants. It is our national temperament, inherited from the day when foods were plentiful and a drug on the market. The public pays for it all, and it makes prices needlessly high. |