An Open Door to the Great Educational Institutions
By David Paulson
LAST summer at our Chicago Branch Sanitarium we gave a health banquet for a number of the leading educators and students of the Chicago University. In an after-dinner speech one of the officials of that great school extended to us an earnest invitation to establish a restaurant near the university. We secured suitable rooms near the main building, and opened our doors the middle of last October. Brother and Sister Mussleman took the immediate supervision of this work, and have labored faithfully, without any financial remuneration whatever, for the success of this enterprise. For a time the expenses exceeded the receipts, but little by little the interest in this manner of living began to take deeper root, until now between four and five hundred meals are served daily, and recently many have had to be turned away for lack of room. The enterprise is becoming a financial success. Among its patrons are members of the faculty and the very best class of students, who speak in a most appreciative way of this effort. This work has given us an opportunity to reach a class of people whom it would have been extremely difficult to reach in any other way. Similar institutions ought to be opened at all our educational centers and in many of our leading cities. There ought to be a number of young men preparing themselves to fill the position of head cooks; also a number of married men and women of some executive ability, who have developed a good degree of patience and forbearance, should be fitting themselves to take the supervision of these enterprises. Some of each of these classes are constantly with us, acquiring16the necessary training and experience for the purpose of connecting with similar enterprises elsewhere. We would be glad to correspond with those who desire to come here for this purpose, as there are many things in the establishment, equipment, and maintenance of such a work that will involve useless expenditures and bitter discouragements in the hands of inexperienced workers, no matter how well meaning and sincere their motives may be.