The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-07-25
Amateur Boston Cooks.

nearly every Lyceum audience in the
country. "Make cooks Oflhem," answer
ed Mrs. Howe triumphantlY, and 5els 10
work at once on her new plan Of Kitchen
reformation. Ever since Mrs. Whitney
wrote her story OF the Holabird house
keeping in the "The Girls" every other
girl who has read II has had frantic &c,
sire to cooperate. Making puddlngs anu
receiving calls at the same tune seems inc
most natural and charming thing IN the
world. and even the folding down Ol the
neVly.dried clothes for the next days
ironing is made exciting and romantic by
having young gallant TO snap the
sheets and table linen, and 10 fold them
hand over hand until the long stretches
grow narrower and narrower, and by.
and.by disappear altogether in the last
folding: Poor Frank Lorings little ro-
nance Of pie.making and loVe:mahng
may not be so very ideal after all. II is
something that will be very likely 70 hap.
pen when this new order Is instituted.
For really It Is an absolute certainty,
this practical preparation for domestic
duties. II has had small beginning IN
the "Girrs Club" an association otyoung
ladies characterized by John Hay as the
most sppreciatiVe audience he ever had,
and to whom Emerson begged the priv
ilege Of reading q new paper because tney
were so bright, and 90 very quiGIK& 70 csvc aa
even his subtlest thought they met
every Saturday during the winter. One
week an essay Is read before them, and
the next week they discussed the subject
that was presented by tho essay Of the
previous Saturday. When 1t was time
Nlur the meetings to cease for The season,
they resolved themselves int8'a number
OF small clubs for work during the sum.
mer. There was q French class formed,
an Italian class, q class In mental phi
losophy, another 10 social analysis, and
at Mrs. Howssuggeslion . cooking club.
This Is by many the largest class Of all,
and decidedly the most enthusiastic; All
manner Of experiments are tried; old fam
lily recipes are hunted up that have been
hidden away because they have been ut
terly useless, and yet were kept In the
family like a tradition. French cook.
books are studied with more, carnestnCss
than was ever given to French grammar.
The regulation cook looks on aghast, but
rs yet says nothing. She Is a triile more
superCiliOus; she Is very sckeptical; she
does not believe that this new enthusiasm
will last; she does not dream that her
scGpter Is falling from her hands 10 the
dainty white ones open 10 receive II. Is
notthis the beginning of social reyolu'
ton?
Every week a supper or dinner or a
supper is given ut the house Of one OF the
members, and every one has TO contribute
something to the feast. The mysterious
something" comes in a hRn1bHsket,
carefully packed, and Is given into the
hands Of the ones who arrange the tables.
Then there Is such q ilutter OF antiCipA.
ton and egerneSs until the doors arc open.
ed into the dining.room, when they all
flOcked eagerly out, first to look and then
10 test each others cooking. "How nice
that bread looks. Who made II ~ r"
"Oh! these delicious almond cheese
cakes, where did they come trOm?"
~ brought them" calls one, "and what
time had with them. / didn't butter
my tins enough and they broke dreadtully
when l took them out; but l mended
every one, and you never would know"
PARKER House rolIsl Who Is up to
that, Iwonder ?" ' - %
The blonde beauty Of tho club acknowl.
edged the rolls, and her sister, young
mGtTon, laid claim TO the bread, while
the chicken CroQueltes weTeoTned by q
bright black.eyed girl, who, when her
duties as aCtive member Of the Cooking
Club permit her, translates biographies
from the German and writes pretty letters
for the papers. OF course all thesegirls
are very careful Of criticism, and they
praise everything that comes to the table
as they feelin duty bound to do But there
is beyond that o test by which everything
Is really tried. Ai(er the supper Is over
general talk on cooking ensues, and
recipes are exchanged. ia recipe Is not
asked for, the unfortunate dish Is never
again offered at that table. One Of the
young ladies has already determined on
gathering together the incest recipes,
those that have been tested, and PUBLISH
ing a cook. bOOk-a cook. book for girls,
10 be used for oil practical purposes by
the coming cooks. It will be designed
for those young housekeepers, too, who
arc going TO begin their domestic life In
tho Old.lashloncd way-thSt by.and.by
will be q new fashion-of caring for their
houses themselves, and making them
really homes. II Miss Alger- carries out
her plan and complies her cookbook, il
will be more valuable than most Of its
kind arc, for it will be, what compaTa-
lively few are, practical, and will be Just
what 'Rosamond" would use.in her new
house in the "Horse oe."-Bost0n Post.