424 New Toek at the World's Columbian Exposition. 



absolutely no waste at all of such things as milk, bread, butter, sugar, 

 etc. If the children took a piece of bread and butter morethan they 

 could eat, it was set aside for the bite they sometimes insisted upon 

 between meals. The waste consisted almost entirely of the bones of 

 meat and of potato parings. During the month, out of the 412.35 

 pounds of food purchased, only eleven pounds were wasted. 



As before stated, the cooking was done almost entirely with Mr. 

 Atkinson's Aladdin oven. Potatoes were boiled on the small gas stove 

 used for heating water. Griddle cakes, fried bacon and corn meal mush 

 were also cooked on the gas stove. Everything else, baking and cook- 

 ing of meats and vegetables, was done in the oven. By the use of the 

 Aladdin oven there was, of course, an advantage gained over the 

 methods which would be used by the poor laborer's wife. The cheap 

 cuts of meat purchased were made extremely palatable by the long, 

 slow cooking. Much time was saved, as no close watching was neces- 

 sary and alllieating of the kitchen was avoided. 



The bills of fare which follow are those used through the twenty- 

 eight days of experiment from July second to July thirty-first. They 

 give the amount and analysis of the food acttially consumed. 



The family, according to Carrol "Wright's method, represented the 

 consuming power of three and forty-nve-ohe-hundredths men. Man 

 equals 100 units ; woman equals 90 units ; boy of 8 equals 75 units ; 

 girl of 6 equals 40 units ; boy of 5 equals 40 units ; total, 345 units. 



In bills of fare Nos. VI, XIY, XV and XVI, the apples used for 

 sauce were sent to the house by gentlemen connected with the New 

 York State horticultural exhibit, and were those somewhat specked and 

 so replaced by others. In bill of fare No. IX the peaches were bought 

 on a Saturday afternoon when they were selling cheap. The quantity, 

 one quart, gave each member of the family one sauce dish full and 

 served as a relish to the bread and butter. In bills of fare Nos. XII, 

 XIII, XIV and XV, the lunch was carried by man to be eaten in 

 place of breakfast, as he was obliged to be on duty at that time. In 

 Nos. XVI, XX, XXIII and XXVH, the weight of the bananas used is 

 given without skins. 



On one occasion the man confessed to eating several cookies and 

 drinking a glass of milk offered him while making a social call when 

 off duty. On another day a comrade treated him to a plate of ice 

 cream. This, he insisted, was the extent to which he broke his contract 

 to eat nothing but what was furnished him at the house. The children 

 were given candy several times by benevolent visitors, who thought 

 them abused because they were deprived of sweet things for a whole 

 month. Usually, however, they were discovered in time and coaxed to 

 give it up. The man and children drank neither tea nor coffee during 

 the month. The woman had always been accustomed to coffee and 

 was unwilling to give it up. She drank it for breakfast. The milk 

 and sugar used in it enter into the analyses. It is believed that the 

 summary showing the food consumed during the month represents 

 with fair accuracy that which was actually eaten. 



The comparison made at the end of the summary, where the average 

 per month per day is given, shows that the amount of proteids con- 



