The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-11-22
lester from boston.
Correspondence Of the Journal.

all, supplies the terrible yearnings of
hungry stomach. Happy the housewife
who can cast a backward glance upon a
long experience in the arts of cookery,
and recall only the welcome plaudits-
"Well done" Perhaps it is best that we
cannot calculate the amount of wretched-
ness, existing in the world, arising from
ill-cooked food. An estimable gentleman,
who can as keenly detect the fine features
Of well spread table, and catch the
toothsome relish of savory dish, as he
can discern the beauty of flashing eye,
or dainty dimple, once remarked % at
tribute much of the crine-wrangling
households, divorces, suicides and even
murders, to bad cooking" Every woman
should feel the responsibility resting upon
her, and though it is not always best to
cater too much to appetite, surely happy
faces around the family board ought amply
to repay the devoted wife and mother, for
all her painstaking in experimenting the
udlN iCJdSlS. DOSlOll, Will utI GNti
practical eye out for improvement, has
an established school of cookery. A visit
to this most commendable institution. not
long since, inspires a word of description
and praise. Such combination of use
fulness, novelty, and interest is seldom
witnessed; and great credit is due the
energetic lady, Miss Parloa, who has
nObly entered upon the task Of bringing
"glad tidings of great Joy" to SO many
households. The rooms are situated on
fremont street, directly over the House
hold Art Rooms, and consist of a neat,
tidily fitted parlor, or waiting room, a
dressing room, and the very cheeriest
kitchen imaginable. Everything neces-
saly to perfect the art Of cooking is to be
found in that kitchen; while here and
there are scattered bright evidences Of a
cultivated taste in more arts than the
culinary. Pots Of rare plants, pretty
picture Oh the wall, some eXQusitelv
placed tiles of various tints, and choice
bits OF pottery. Onehalf, or perhaps
more, of the room is devoted to the seat
ing Of the lecture class, which averages
fifty members. 1t is indeed a pleasing
spectacle to see fifty ladies of all ages,
from the silver haired matron, whose face
wears the satisfied expression of expert
N Tha o. nnanal ay-nl IL bp
perhaps in the near future sees the great
results arising from the knowledge gam
cd, each intently watching the movements
OF the busy teacher, as she fits from table
to stove, discoursing the while upon the
various viandS i'll process of cooking Miss
Paroa is lady of culture, pleasing ad-
dress, and fully equal to the double ac-
compllshment OF serving an appetiZing
| mOrSel for the stomach, and an interest
| ing lecture for the minds digestion. Every
kind of cooking is practically Illustrated,
even to the extent Of testing its merits by
a wholesome taste. Each day is devoted
to three or four different specimens-per
haps roasts gravies, and pies to- day.
fries, cake, and soup tomorrow. The
private classes have only six in each class,
and are composed wholly of young ladies
| from the first families of Boston and
neighboring cities. Armed with Il wide
spread apron, jaunty lunch basket, for
the materials which are to be manipu-
| lated, they gather around the cooking
table, each with a note book and pencil.
She stlrs, measures, watches the oven,
and jotS down, meantime, all the import
ant points of the process. The instruction
| gained in this way is far more thorough
than could be derived in the home kitch
en-; and covers a vast range of superior
experience in the marvels of cookery.
Miss Parloa proudly informed us that
there had never been a failure in the
class of private instruction, and jollier
company could not be found than those
young ladies when they sat down to the
dinner of their own manufacture Tn
| lICllN VI oljNClIlCllo VI NN'IlolIlN ttiI NOlI-
| stantly developed most important
feature of household responsibility being
one of the strongest recommendations OF
the school. \ constant increase of APP
plicants is fast establishing this most
| laudable effort among the successful art
studies of Boston Miss ParlOa contem-
plates making Maine her residence dur
| ing the summer months. where she will
undoubtedly give instruction. 1t is hoped
her excellent cause will meet the cordial
approval and sustaining influence of our
eastern friends-though we could mention
many a thrifty housewife, who is a Joy to
her family in the fulltilment Of her duties
in the culinary region, and who stands at
the head Of the profession in roasting
CLAIMS at a picnic.
1t is interesting to follow the flashes
goods houses have opened new and at
tractive stores Such has been the late
excitement in gloves that we doubt if the
glove trade ever has a resurrection. When
nearly every firm in the city came to adj
vertise a good quality of kid at fifty cents
per pair, it did not matter if each lady
was limited to the purchase of two pairs
at a place, for she had the opportunity
of multiplying the privilege by the TWEEN
ties The success in that department
proved an incentive to greater effort, and
now there is an immense run on cameTs
hair shawls. Different firms advertise a
special day for their sale. The depart
ment is attractivcly decorated, attendants
handsomely attired, and all the fascina-
tons of a brilliant opening put forth to
allure the visitor. 1t is a pleasure to wit
ness the enterprise Of such undertakings,
but it is the old story of Eve tempting