The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-02-04
TRALNINq-soHoOLs OFOo0KERY.
E.sAvln. Christian Advocate.

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Nashville Christian Advocate.
/ have been much interested recently
in looking over circular issued by the
Bureau of Education. Washington, D.
G. It was sent to me by the Hon. John
Eaton, Commissioner of Education.
The circular makes mention of certain
schools in Europe and America where
instruction in cookery is given. In
England, the pupils of the London,
Edinburgh, Liverpool, and other in
stitutions belonging to the Northern
Union of Schools OF Cookery, come
1 from all social grades, as do the scholars
of the New York Cooking-school.
| 1t is very well said that with all our
facilities for producing the Injuries q
| the world, as a nation we are ill-fed,
| and in some localities half starved. The
blame of this lamentable fact rests, it is
affirmed, in no small manner with those
in charge of the education of our youth,
which practically ignores the necessity
for training girls in the principles Of
domestic economy, and by its influence
fosters the idea that the performance of
domestic labor by the head of the house
hold is degrading.
The question of establishing schools
of cookery in America is now being
widely agitated; in several of the larger
cities coOkery-clubs exist, the lady
members of which are generally pro-
ficient in the culinary art. The public
cookery-schoOls of New York and Bos-
ton meet with popular favor. An in
creasing number of people are now urg-
ing the establishment of schools for
practical industrial training. They de
mand that the curriculum of our public
schools shall be so modified as to sub
stitute for some of those higher branches
of literary education, which they assert
to be comparatively valueless in pro-
noting the future welfare of the chill
dren, training in mechanics and practi-
cal science for boys, and in domestic
economy and cookery for girls. Is there
not great necessity for the establish
ment of such schools in our Southland? |
Old things have passed away, and in
stead of well-trained cooks who were
fixtures in the family, and who had been
carefully instructed by our motheFa and
grand mothers, we have set Of ignOF-
ant helpers whose short stay at any one
place gives but little time to teach them
any thing.
Aunt Phillis" was valuable adjunct
to the household, and the boys and girls
of Gnte-6elLttn1 days will never cease to
honor the memory of the sable queen of
the kitchen, but she has left few sue
cessOrs. Her daughters and grand
daughters have been going to school and
to meeting" with much regularity
since freedom came to them, but as us6s
full servants they are scarcely worth
mentioning
1t is fact that negro labor is more
md more unreliable, and cannot be de-
pended upon with any certainty in the
future. This being true, it is of prime !!
Importance that our Southern girls aud !
md young ladies receive such training
IS will enable them to be independent
f all help when called away from their ,
nOther's home to one of their own. A
wise man has said: I'm my opinion
wife who manages her share in the
eusehOld matters well, has as much
as her husband on their pros r
erity. For, as a rule, it is the labor
f the husband that brings in the money
f the family, but the judgement Of the !
wife that regulates the spending of !
host of it." If the wife be such an !
important factor, how wise she should I
G in household matters, and how dill
ent to learn the best ways of keeping +
ousel
But have | not wandered from my 1
ext, draining Schools of Cookery2" 5
so, let me go back and urge your :
eaders to seriously consider the impor- \
f such schools. 1t is not small mat 7
er to know how to prepare food for !
be sustenanee of the physical man. In
ONE way or other it should be incor- Q
Grated into the lessons of the schools, i
D that the better cooking of the future E
lay help to lessen dyspepsia and all +
inbred diseases.
Who will start cooking school in
ennessee or any portion of the South?
j. W. P. C
Knoxville, Tenn, Dec. 10, 1875.