"Woekingman's Model Home. 



No. XIV. 

 Breakfast. — Oatmeal mush; whole milk; fried potatoes. 



Dinner. — Baked salt pork and beans; boiled rice with sugar; bread. 



Supper. — Toast and butter; salad of lettuce and cold beans. 



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During the month of July the experiment was made of putting these 

 bills of fare to a practical test in the Workingman's Model Home. 

 For this purpose a family was secured to live in the house and repre- 

 sent our theoretical family. A Columbian guard, lodging in the 

 nearest barracks, was very glad to come to the house for his meals. 

 A widow who had been secured as an assistant in the care of the 

 house brought her three children and lived there night and day through 

 the month. The object of the experiment was explained to the man 

 and woman, and as they were intelligent people they readily assented 

 'to the proposed conditions. They promised to eat only what was fur- 

 nished them in the home. 



They also agreed that if they found the food insufficient to satisfy 

 appetite or to maintain strength they would frankly say so. The chil- 

 dren were constantly under the eye of their mother and of the experi- 

 menter and could be trusted to say so if they were hungry. On the 

 day on which the experiment began Dr. J. S. Mitchell, one of Chicago's 

 eminent physicians, came to the house and gave the family a thorough 

 physical examination, with the following results : 



"Eecord taken by J. S. Mitchell, M. D., 2954 Prairie avenue, 

 Chicago, July 2, 189'3. 



" Man, American — age, 28 years ; height, 6 ft. 1 in. in stockings ; 

 girth, 34 in.; weight, 180 lbs; pulse, 80 (warm day, been walking 

 fast) ; well nourished, florid ; comes of family of good eaters ; occupa- 

 tion, Columbian guard. 



" Woman, Irish — age, 34 years ; weight, 100 lbs. ; girth, 2o-| in. ; 

 florid, but looks a little haggard and overworked ; occupation, house- 

 work, cleaning, washing, etc. 



