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Show DIET SQUAD IS MAKING TEST Will Demonstrate One Person Can Live Properly on Forty Cents a Day j Chicago, Nov. 22. Twelve employe); j of the Chicago health department today to-day began a two weoks' experiment intended to demonstrate that a person per-son can live properly on 40 cents a day. At the first meal, breakfast, served at 8:20 o'clock, John Dill Robertson, health commissioner, directed the "diet squad" to learn to eat slowly, asserting that "the faster you eat the I juu cau ui L v uiuiuiua was allowed for breakfast, the menu for which consisted of fresh apples, liver, bacon, one egg muffin, butter and coffee. Each Dieter Pledged. Each dieter was pledged to deny himself all nourishment, except the meals prepared at the school of domestic do-mestic arts and sciences. Dr. Robertson Robert-son announced, however, that they might drink Water, chew gum and smoke if they desire. I The test cases are being given widespread wide-spread attention, especially among specialists and economists, numbers of whom asked for specimen menus and charts of progress. Six men and six women are making the test. |