New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-04-01

time to eat it, and then they have
something fried. There are thousands
of intelligent women who are willing
to devote large part of their time to
some branch of art study in which
they can never hope to become any
thing more than imitators or common
place amateurs, who regard the
practice of cookery as mental en-
ployment, instead of q fine art which
is worthy of careful and intelligent
study.
Il am born for something better, .
disdainfully asserts the ambitious or
the incompetent woman when the sub
ject is presented to her. Doubtless,
for something better than the drudg-
cry OF dishwashing and similar merely
mechanical work which can be done,
under direction, by an unskilled do
nestle. For something better, also,
than the routine methods and tradi-
tons without reason which make up
the sum of many housewives culin-
ary education. But the wise and en-
lightened development of an art
which, in all the centuries past, has
scarcely advanced beyond the bare
gastronomic necessities of race that
must eat to live, which has not vet
outgrown many of the mistakes Of it's
earliest experiments, and which holds
possibilities for physical growth and
well being without which higher and
more harmonious moral and mental
growth are well-nigh impossible. opens
field where any woman may become a
royal benefactress, not only to the few
who make up the little kingdom of her
home, but to many yet to live in this
growing and wisdom-gaining world.
And this knowledge is not difficult to
attain. Thought, intelligence and in.
terest will solve many problems and
achieve many results which will bring
their Gown exceed ng great rewards, !"
rewards without suspicion of drudg-
cry or degradation. With the newly
found knowledge of cause and effect,
of reason and fitness, which a general
interest in this art will diffuse, will
come recognition of this necessity of
pure air, Of cleanliness and meth
cd, and of improved and convenient
appliances for kitchen work. Per-
haps, even, the modern parlor, with
its confused and ill-assorted decora-
tons, and its uselessness for honest
family comfort, will become of less
Importance than bright, clearly,
well-appointed kitchen, where the
housewife, be she rich or poor, will
not find it punishment to spend the
time necessary for the wise discretion,
or even manual work required. The
woman who, because she does not like
homework, remains in willful igno-
rance of the truth that upon the diet of
a people its health, its character and
it's power for usefulness and
attainment also wholly de-
pend, is not fit to assume the
responsibilities of a housewife. In
replying to some poetic masculine
warnings suggested by q remark of
DR.. johnson, made in the days when
the classic tongue was in higher favor
than it is at present, to TIE effect that
a man would rather see a good dinner
on his table than have his wife speak
Greek, a witty woman POLITICALLY ex-
presses the belief that, if such wild
fancies were to become facts, the
world would be full of ''starved brutes
making love to tired cooks.''
But to know the properties and uses
OF different kinds of food, and the
best methods of cooking to obtain
nutriment for brain, bone and muscle.
will acd pleasure and interest to the
manual labor, and, at the same time,
make it less complicated and tiresome.
1t is a hap-hazard fashion of taking
up the duties of daily life, the doing
what she must and Sinking what she
can, that makes the life of many a
house-mother one long, dreary task,
barren of acquisition for herself, or of
BENEFICIAL results for others.
Who esome food, well prepared and
daintily served, whether it be coarse
or delicate, will materially lessen the
number of starved brutes, tired cooks
and exacting gourmands.
Until the time when the science as
well as the art of cookery becomes
generally understood, and the work
can be honestly and economically done
for the people by trained professional
workers, 1.-THE separateness in cook
ing" which the English writer de-
plores as being pushed everywhere to
prepostenous limits,'' is the best
means which the eworld has at com
mand, and shouldbe made as inhuen.
tial for health and consistent develop.
ment as knowledge, interest and
careful thought ION the part of the
individual housewife can make it,
Martha HaaOe Davidscm, IN The Curresss.
Ex-Treasurer Splmer's Signature,
This fact called to the mind
of Assistant Treasurer Graves an
amusing inosdent during Treasurer
Spinner's ADM nistratiOn. s:One dav ,,