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Show KING TUT WOULD BE JEALOUS J King Tut would be jealous if he could see the dinner table of one of our poorest citizens today. For all their gold plate and jeweled jewel-ed goblets, the ancient kings did not fare half so well as the humblest of us, thanks to our present day methods meth-ods of preserving and transporting food, declares a Cleveland physician. Canning, refrigerating, preserving and drying food the four great j methods of keeping It all are comparatively com-paratively recent in development. In 1S25 fruits and vegetables were first canned in this country for commercial com-mercial use. Cold storage plants and the refrigerator are late developments. develop-ments. The newest method is called desiccation or dehydration " and means drying. By this method "meat, vegetables, and even eggs and milk can be reduced to powder form and kept indefinitely. "Statisticians already anticipate the day when New York City alone will have a population of 25.000,-000. 25.000,-000. Each person of these millions, through the perfection of methods of preserving and transporting food, will enjoy a diet such as the ancient kings in all their glory never knew." |