The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-03-06

liUlC W GU IL, anu tHcu Iubf nave
something fried. There are thousands
d 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 fine art which
is worthy of careful and intelligent
study.
II 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-
tiOns without reason which make up
the sum of many a housewives culin-
airy 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 its
| 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
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 town 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 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 it's uselcssness for honest
family comfort, will become of less
Importance than bright, clearly,
Kitchen, where the
housewife, be she rich or poor, will
lot find it punishment to spend the
ime necessary for the wise discretion,
n even manual work required. The
woman who, because she does not like
lousework, remains in willful igno-
ance of the truth that upon the diet of
people its health, its character and
Is power for usefulness and
ttainmept also wholly de-
end, is not fit to assume the
of housewife. In
eplying to some poetic masculine
earnings suggested by remark of
'r. johnson, made in the days when
ne classic tongue was in higher favor
nan it is at present, to the effect that
man would rather see good dinner
n his table than have his wife speak
reek, witty woman POLITICALLY ex-
resses the belief that, if such wild
lncies were to become facts, the
'orld would be full of starved brutes
taking love to tired cooks.t
But to know the properties and uses
different kinds of food, and the
est methods of cooking to obtain
for brain, bone and muscle,
i'll add pleasure and interest to the
annual labor, and, at the same time,
axe it less complicated and tiresome.
1t is a hap-hazard fashion of taking
, the duties of daily life, the doing
hat she must and Sinking what she
N, that makes the life of many
'use-mother one long, dreary task,
Irren of acquisition for herself, or of
nificial results for others.
Wholesome food, we'll prepared and
intily served, whether it be coarse
delicate, will materially lessen the
mber of starved brutes, tired cooks
d exacting gourmands.
Until the time when the science as
III as the art of cookery becomes
nerally understood, and the work
q be honestly and economically done
the people by trained professional
'rkers. "the separateness in cook
3" which the English writer de-
'res as being pushed everywhere to
eposterous limits" is the best
ans which the world has at com
md, and should be made as inhuen-
for health and consistent develop.
mt as knowledge, interest and
'eful thought on the part of the
lividual housewife can make it.
rtha Hoaoe DAVIDSON, in The Current.