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Title: The Boston Cooking School magazine of culinary science and domestic economics
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Hill, Janet McKenzie, 1852-1933, ed Boston Cooking School (Boston, Mass.)
Subjects: Home economics Cooking
Publisher: Boston : Boston Cooking-School Magazine
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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e com-panys time. High-back chairs withfoot-rests, clean aprons, and sleevesto protect their dresses, are suppliedby the company to all women employ-ees. Rest-rooms are maintained near allthe departments in which women work.A physician is within call, and twotrained nurses are always on duty at the factory, to care for those who be-come fatigued or ill. Every person entering the employof the company must undergo physi-cal examination. After employees areaccepted, every means is taken to keepthem healthy. Lunch is served to the six hundredwomen employees at the nominal costof 25 cents per week. 4 Following isa copy of a menu for one week:— Monday. Bean Soup. Potatoes au Brian. Stewed Corn. Bread and Butter. Coffee, Milk, or Postum Cereal. Tuesday.Boiled Beef with Horseradish Sauce.Boiled Potatoes. Spring Onions. Bread and Butter. Cocoa or Coffee. Wednesday. Vegetable Soup. Queen Olives. Meat Dressing. Boiled Potatoes, Bread and Butter. Coffee, Milk, or Postum Cereal. Welfare Work 121
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Back-yards on K Street, after Planting Thursday. Roast Veal with Dressing. Mashed Potatoes. Rhubarb Shortcake. Bread and Butter. Coffee, Milk, or Postum Cereal. Friday. Cream of Rice. Spaghetti with Cheese. Stewed Potatoes. Grape-nuts. Bananas. Bread and Butter. Coffee, Milk, or Postum Cereal. The idea of establishing a dining-room occurred to President Pattersonon a trip of inspection through thefactory, when he observed a womanheating coffee for her lunch in a canon one of the steam radiators. Begin-ning with two gas stoves, the idea hasgrown until it has taken perfect formin the commodious Welfare Hall, wherelunch is served not only to the sixhundred women employees, but alsoto the men of the factory. In May, 1905, an order was issuedby the company for the construction of Welfare Hall, which by the origi-inal plan was to have been 268 feet inlength, the work to be done entirelyby workmen then in the employ ofthe company, and to be completed infive weeks. After the building was well

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