Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1902 — TABLOID LUNCHEON NOW IN ORDER [ARTICLE]

TABLOID LUNCHEON NOW IN ORDER

*• *«••* Bn *• X* Tip* •• V*ltm “I bar* solved the luncheon problem.” said W. 8. Webb or the Missouri Savings Bank yesterday. “I dine every noon, , yet 1 neither have my luncheon sent In so me nor do I go out for it Neither do I Carry a full dinner bucket, as we did in the last presidential canvass." "How do you do it?” was asked. "This way,” and he took from his pocket a little tin box, in which were a score or more of little tablets. "Bach of these is composed of concentrated food. They are mixed with -malted milk. Three or four of them make a square meal. I find it inconvenient to go out for luncheon, in the middle of the day, because that is our busy time. I don’t like to have one sent in, and I cannot go without. Therefore, these. I take three or four of them every noon, and perhaps eat a banana or an orange, and I am amply satisfied.

"Yes, I know that sounds funny,” he went on, “but that is the twentieth century way of doing things. Soon we will do all our eating on the tabloid plan, and the odors of the kitchen—in fact, the kitchen itself—will be obliterated. We will carry our meals about with us in our pockets, and when we are hungry we will eat.. There will be no long dinners, no waits, no quick lunches. We will take tablets and save all worry over burned or underdone steaks, and will not have indigestion over heavy pies and batter cakes. Banquets will become a thing of the past. Instead of stuffing a guest with half a hundred different things at one sitting, we will say: ‘Have a tablet?’ and then light our cigars and be done with it. It’s the coming way.” And Mr. Webb cocked his feet up on his desk and took another tablet.— Kansas City Journal.