Smyrna times., 1876-11-22
Ladies on Cooking.

awe put on our silks and laces and
turn our backs upon our Kitchens" says
one of the sex, Gas if they were not places
for human beings to spend any time in,
leaving the poor, ignorant creatures, who
are obliged to stay there, to provide for the
physical wants of our families.
81 hold that if ladies would study house
keeping and cooking in all their details as
thoroughly as their husbands study law,
medicine, bookkeeping, or any other oc-
cupation they expect to follow, we should
soon see different state of affairs in the
domestic department. If any department
must be neglected, do not let it be the
kitchen. Care, study and labor there will
repay one more than in any other place,
and contribute more to the health and
comfort of the family. Well-cooked,
digestible food, will save one from all those
pangs dyspeptics are heir to,-will prevent
even the incipent horrors of that disease.
Better untidy rooms than ill-cooked meals /;
better cobwebs in even the best parlor than
IN the brain. If the kitchen be sweet, clean
and cheerful, the cooking utensils bright
and pure, the task of compounding from
the raw materials of the store and market
those delicate and also solid articles of food
that grace the table and minister to the
necessity, comfort and refreshment of the
family, is, in nay opinion, quite as refined
and lady.like as sweeping, busting or
sewing. These a servent can be easily
taught to do, and mistakes, when they do
occur, are not so serious; while very few
dOmestics possess, or are willing to acquire,
the power of exercising, the care, judgment
and skill that cooking requires"
Another writes:
There is no loadstone so powerful to
draw man away fron evil and evil asso-
Citations, as a comfortable home and clean,
well-cooked, wslI-served supper table.
The utter wretchedness of many drunk
ards home must be ascribed to the inability
Of the wife to properly fulfil her household
duties, and her ignorance of the art of
cooking. Many home would be brighter
and happier if the master of it could look
forward to well-cooked supper at the end
Of his days work.
"Queen Victoria's daughters all under
went course of kitchen instruction, and
can, it is said, hold their own with profes-
sprs of the culinary art. Wives cannot
make their homes truly pleasant and
happy, free from discoPd and lar, if they
have not been taught the art of cooking and
housekeeping They thereby lose the
sweetest and purest blessings that belong
to wife-the perfect love and ,ohole admira
ton of her husband Husbands may love
and pity poor bousekeeper, but who doe:
not want love and admiration p
Another writes:
consider it one Of the greatest favori
one woman can confer upon another tc
teach her to cook, and if had my choice
OF accomplishments, and could have bu
one, it should certainly be that of making
good bread and the greatest belle in the
land might, and (if she has any brains) scil
be proud if she possesses it. If / were &
young man should not ask any lady TO b'
wife, though Pandora's box Of good gift
were showered upon her if this one were
omitted. Duty to himself and future
iamily demand it.p
Then another writes
sEhe art of ornamental cooking is fa
better understood in America than the ar
Oh common cooking. There are NOR
women who know how to make good cak'
'nan good bread; more who can furnish
you with COED ice-cream than a well
cooked mutton chops fair charlotte
russo is easier to gain than perfect cup o
eOnee; and you shall find sparkling jell
!" your desert where you sighed in vain 70
80 simple luxury as a well-cooxed potato
Joseph MedilI says that ignorant an,
wicked men will be candidates for office JUS
a'ng as other men will walk up to tn
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