, 1873-08-17
REFORM OF THE CUISINE.
The Latest Boston Notion-~-orla'
Clubs and Esthetio Cookery.
Almond Chccso.Cakes Tory hieo in Tholr
Way, but Hardly 50 Important
as Soup and Meat.
Our inferiority to Europe in tho Sci
ence Of ood-Preparatlon.
knowledge TINT American Young Women
Should Sock to obtain.

knowledge TINT American Young Women
Should Seek to obtain.
A Howcl a HovoI Boston to tho chasgol
a cuok cookl Hibornin to tho rcHcuol
"Now all@mo 1t werr," cried Ju1la Howu
Shall never ho Rnh Of mo, 4
Tint and nino have tur'lotl aside
With cooking i'll 3copardio.
"11avo down, hayo down, my maidens fair,
Have down Into tho hall
Well frt our Boston talent loose
Within thu kttchen-wa1l" l
"Nale in mako il" Hi.crnfa cried,
Mako In, my children tenrl
The 1rah cooks viii onstel 10,
For Julia l1owo Ia hcro."
Do you hear tho din Of tho fight,
THE DATTLE-oRv OF BOSTON,
ever foremost in tho good work, over rondy to
charge with bray Of trumpota or hiss of sauco-
,pans, whom thero is good fight to ho fought,
whether for tho preservation or enondation Of
tho Constitution, or tho capture of tho cuisine?
,uencoforth tho oyo-g o-glasB-whcl,, by its fro4uon-
cy has attosted to the impaired vision Of the
youthful Boston maiden who has dimrned her
aight by anxious poring. early and Into, ovor
worka Of Bcionco or manuals Of art--will grow
misty with tho steam arising from aavory viands,
whose course sho will carefully supervise from
state OF inchoato insipidty to tho perfection Of
asnbrosinl lusctouBness. To tho cloud md water
proof {e1cuso us, nqua-acutum), which aro do
-rigeur, will be added regnlia consisting of q
7ong cooking-apron, while tho cl,atonino will no
longor bo rosorved for opera-glass, fan,
Tnaigrclto and such articles. exemplifying tho
Iuxuriouauoss Of this solf-ndufgent ago; but Il
wooden spoon, au iron ditto, ncat-forls, two or
i1lroo skowcrs, and q miniature anliron md
Hauee-pan are to bo the insignia Of this rebellion
ngainst i,iilo1once and tho dolce OF existonce.
Aud yot VIC aro not Huro. Boston could DO
nothing
WE'RE She NOT EsrnEr1o.
Her children criticize Mozart, A1onlolssohn,
and Cherubini; aro ut homo with pro-Raphae elit-
ism; diacusH chiaro-scuro, and can dotcot real
Titian or Guido at q glance. They play with
acionco, md plilosophio thooroa nre tho infanto'
textbooks, in lieu Of q dog-oarod primor with
IA stands for Aaron," Us tho Alpha OF tho Eng
lisla tongue. Nothing 10 vulgar. thon, Us COM
mon cooking cmblemH, but silver caudlo-cup,
platod pudding-dsh, and CLAUS jolly-rnould
will bo tie proper ndjnnots. We are positive
That the Boston cooking partios will bo m i1n-
mcnse s,lccess TINT tho amount Of knowledge
gaiuod thereby will bo something surprising;
and TINT its practical value to Boston will bo
something ineatiulablo. We 800 him in the fr-
turo when those far young domoisollos, having
become porfectin tho high art of cookery, shall
nave assumed tho head Of his establishment, aud
tue poets words occur to US aa peculiarly appic-
able:
nqt ss n9 came. th9agh hes ns's and ''a
80 noble was Lila manly front,
So cal1a his steadtaet eye,
Hud cooked Ills daily fare;
OF almond clseBc-cakes 1t was found,
And not OF roaRt beef rarn;
But jams, nnl tarte, and rolls, at Hhich
Tho Parker IIotse suba!dts,
And brcat mud ch!ckeu-croluettcs brown,
gho dainty provides.
d stop in the right direction or courao, il
sheso girls arc to bo rich mons wives but how
it they arc
TO MARRY POOR MEN,
or men With only two or three thousand 20 ar
to 1.-Two on Chicken-oroquetto and almond
chcese-cnkes will hardly answer for his daily
somewhat expensive alto, nnd thoy tako so1no
time to mako properly.
Suppose, through aomo dire misfortune, q
Boston girl, graduate Of tho GiriB' Club who
lind tried tic regulation cooks patience with hcr
messing, bntl,ad ncheyod wonderful roaults in
tho cbeose-cako and caramel why, should happen
to 10 far forget what was due to herself. to the
place Of her birth, to Bunker Hill aud Faneuil
,1Ias1, Us to marry, not Boston mn1l, but a
human polyp from some other city,.-New YORK.,
tic fearful thing to contemplate; but then It
might bo. Now, our acquaintance with this
Tnrety OF polyp has led us to beovD that, whilo
he il ToadT to grnsp, anything with these tonta-
from tho geologic, po1yp na to DO gifted With
sspeoch, ho is opt to cry out rather sbusiyely it
his food s all Of the esthoto class. Not having
been bred from liH cradle to high art, ho wants
goUps, AND MEATS, AND VEGETABLES.
Think OF it and shudler. Human polyp
~coznea home to dinner. Amy soup 7" mo!
j couldn't mako coup; wo didn't loarn that ut
our CLUB. aud tie cookbook giyea! euch queoT
that
ronlant botor % about 3 It. "W.t%a % tSis on % tbs
platter? ?" ''The meat you aont." "What (e1-
Iresaiyo rhetorical renlnrk] have you dono With
ea tnll y q vntor n t and 5oilod M Wasn't tha
right :" Human poyp ReomB suddenly to find
something decidedly wrong with the milton, aud
er fsw smss Poe r@sn,srtns q - n. adds
tonged ejaculation Of astoniHhment from tht
Boston girl, who has boon in quite too dazod 8
state to properly resent hia political remarks
and fljghta Of rhetoric. he Isn't Boston man
.oieo3" "oh! such croquottes, aud s'lcl
chsssoc1tG ho,ondoa lfarn9a "a tSa a,r3s t. h msk
Could that 10 + sneor On the po,lyp's faco2 RI
vocal sound llo omitted would hayo done crodi
TO MI animal combining the dullest voices Of th
pig and bull-frog. He bolts dozen croqnotte
jolly, aud iunlly takes tho edgo OF OF his appo
'tte with tho zolu, which, the wretch unfeelingl
.xo,nArka, nro
THE ONLY THINGS WORTH EATING.
After dinner. inBteud Of staying homo to roa
Emerson, or Spencer, or Whitman, to his bride
tile brute absolutely goos dowu to Il Browns,
or "Delmonico's" to get q dinner, and aond
Diincrya into Mysteries by suggesting that sh
lad hettes got a cook. Poor Minerva! VII
wasn't he 4 Boston man, iustead OF toroig
polyp? Evidently hor tasonts arc wahtoa. Thi
creature absolutely expected her to know wha
that disgusting piece Of meat waB, and ho aBke
for soup. Or course, thoy always In
coup ut home, sohen they had company
and sometimoa real thick potago fc
dinner out OF which they made . square moa
if osthetic Boston could bo supposed to do ali,
thing 40 vulgar; bnt tho tdea OF expecting sou
every day 4! Why did ahe leave her nattvoo o!t.
with sn intellectual development, to waste llt
sweotnosB aud hor roulados, fnynos ind yaraz
.oni OF the ouiaino upon the oaert air OF thes
peniglItoa lallds, wloao une1l1turod donizons ca