Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-10-24
Encouraging the Culinary Art.

AT recent fair held in Rome, Georgia,
novel feature was introduced in the
shape of cooking contest among the
young ladies of that and neighbOring
towns. The purpose was to decide which
of the number could produce the best din
ner from given quantity of meats and
vegetables, and the gastronomic strife was
encouraged by an award of prizes foInihe
best and second best dinners, another for
general proficiency, and fourth for eX-
cellence. The test was by taste and ap-
pearance, and the judges, after sampling
the viands of each particular miss, gave
to Miss Hettie j. Johnson the first prize,
which was a cooking stove; to Miss Octa.
via Shropshire the second prize, another
cooking stove; to Miss E. j. Shropshire
$40 for general proficiency, and to Miss
Alice Camp, of the mature age of II, $2C
for excellence.
This innovation on the usual purpose OF
agricultural fairs cannot but be com
mended. 1t is well, not only for the
young ladies of Georgia, but the young
men of that State and posterity, that efforts
for improving the breed of racers, or de
veloping the most profitable species OF
kline have at last given way to the encour.
agement of the culinary art. Certainly
such championship is an immense i'm
provement upon the baby and dog shows
which have become features at some agri.
cultural fairs. There is no subject, next
to the production of his food, in which
man is so much interested as its prepara
ton, The Georgia young ladies have evi-
IDENTIFY OWNED this secret, and remember
ing the old aphorism about the quickest
route to a mans heart being DjG his stom
ach, are confident of gaining a greater
matrimonial prize by means of this ac
complishment than without it.
Such contests of the pot and kettle de
serve to be encouraged. Music, the polite
languages, pleasing manners and taste in
dress, are accomplishments that need not
and ought not to be discouraged, and
when supplemented by some practical
knowledge of the ordinary and unpoetica
affairs of life, they shine to much better
effect. But music and manners cannot
take the place of sound common sense
nor will a repast of French colloquialisms
answer for good, square meal. Why is
it not as desirable that an accomplished
young lady have substratum Of practi
cal information, as that young man o.
wealth, or professional gentleman, b(
| inducted into the mysteries of trade.
| Inc kluu Vi tuuCdJlOn WHICH UlOS
young ladies of America receive is no
built upon a solid foundation, ana righ
here is the secret of the trouble which 81
many housewives experience in procur
ing domestic help-it is that they know
| little themselves about the science o.
housekeeping. II the reader has the Gu
riosity to inquire, he will ascertain tina
| good housekeepers have less annoyanct
| from their servants than poor. AS a rule
girls know but little about housekeepin
when they first go out to service. If til,
mistress be thrifty, economical, tidy, skill
ed in cookery, and amiable, the movie,
will become like her, and Djce UersG Blu
a servant that is "broke in" wrong gener
ally goes wrong throughout her life, a
does, also, a lady who attempts to cOnduc
| the affairs of house without first havin;
been educated in the fundamental princi
pies thereof. A good servant will NJ
more suit than a bad one. Indeed it i
not upon record that an undomesticateC
mistress and good servant remained un
der the same roof, bearing those relations
to each other, more than twenty-fou
hours. The baggage of the latter is gen
orally hustled out upon the sidewalk even
sooner than that.
If, instead of rivalry in fashion anC
dress, the ambition of young ladies shoulC
be directed toward excellence in the art o
making home comfortable, there woult
be less dependence upon outside assis
tance, and there would be fCwer "stupiC
servant girls" fewer complaining wives
and more happy homes than there nov
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