The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1885-10-16

les for teaching Cookery, several OF
whom are now occupying prominent
and paying positions.
During July and August, for sew
eral years, Mrs, Ewing has had
charge of the School of Cookery at
the great summer university at Chau-
tauqua, N. Y. where, as the Home
stead'' says, Through the medium of
her lessons and lectures, she has sue.
ceeded in interesting nearly 100, 900
ladies, in every part of the United
States, in her special department of
woman's work. Speaking of one
of her incompatible lectures, the As
sembly Herald last summer said edi-
torially, Zone of the best things at
Chautauqua this year is the lecture on
Home Work. by Mrs. Ewing. 1t
abounds in the most valuable sug-
gestions, the truest philosophy, and
the most encouraging exhortations.
And 1t is a very suggestive thing that
while Mrs. Ewing believes in perfect
freedom of pursuit for women, she
still holds and eloquently teaches
that the home career is the best and
highest. We advise our readers to
study that lecture. 1t is rich in old
thoughts dressed in new garments.
Nobody has ever before said the
same things quite so effectively and
clearly"
Each morning 1 reported her les.
sons on bread, soups, pastry, salads,
and all sorts of delicate and delicious
dishes, and there often arises in mem
DRY the picture of those hours. The
crowd of eager, curious and interested
women, with their many amusing
questions and remarks, the white
washed walls, the long table Of daz-
zling cleanliness, ornamented with a
tempting array Of china, silver, snowy
napkins, crisp vegetables and luscious
fruit, and, most attractive Of all, the
Professor, herself. as she stepped before
the class for the daily lesson. The neat,
gray dress closely fitting the matronly
form, the linen collar fastened with a
bunch of flowers or knot of pretty
ribbon, the large white apron so wond-
erfully laundried, and the sleeves turn
ed back from hands and wrists so del
lcatey shaped that young girl might
have envied them all this indefuable
charm at once lifting cooking so high
up in the region of the high arts that
even painting and music and poetry,
seemed plebein and common place.
Never before was dough so dextrously
and gracefully manipulated, or nodded
into such lovely and artistic shapes.
And out of ordinary meats and veget-
ables, were formed soups and salads
and dainty dishes, fit to set before a
king.
Although enjoying her labors and
gratifed with her success, tt was not
until the winter of 1888, that this en-
ergetic, ambitious and capable woman
was able fully to realize the
cherished hope and desire of her life.
all her work heretofore had been but
preparation towarad carrying out her
grand idea, the education Of woman in
the household arts She was both
yexed aud grieved when she thought
Of the vast army of wretchedly incom
petent housekeepers, and recollected
that there Was not in all the world
thoroughly equipped school for the sys-
tematic education Of women in the one
profession which from the beginning
has been almost exclusively their own.
In the winter of 1888, Mrs. Ewing re-
ceived an invitation from the Trustees
of the Iowa Agricultural College to take