Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-11-15
Learning How to Cook.
THREE HUNDRED LITTLE GIRLS DISPLAY
PRooPs OF THEIR SKILL.

How to cook beafsteaks and chops and
roasts and puddings, and to make SALADS ana
dressings and Heaven knows what else, IL
what has occupied the minds OF three hundred
odd little girls in white caps all summer un-
der the tuition of the New York Cooking
school, Last night $50 of these little crea-
lures tried to tell IN song, in verse, and by
practical illustrations the 200 or 800 ladies
and gentlemen assembled in the pariors or
the school at No. 20 Lafayette place some of
the things they had learned All of these
children are from the public schools and
from what are termed the vacation classes !"
This means that during their regular summer
vacation they gave up most OF their time TO
the study OF 1.-THE art of cooking
Promptly at o'clock last night, as the
tuneful piano rolled out the sonorous notes
of a march, the little tots filed down the
stairs from the kitchen into the front parlor
and deposited their little selves on the rows
of seats arranged for them. When they
were thoroughly settled they triiled forth q
roIlicking song in which they assured their
hearers that in the matter of cooking they
held the palm. AT its conclusion little Miss
Maggie Walters delivered a salutatory> and
then Miss Charlotte Lane put the class
through q long series OF questions in the
various branches of their "art." They were
answered in joyful chorus. Several recita-
tons were given and more songs were sung.
Notable among the latter was the bread song,
illustrated by five or six young ladies who
kneaded big patches of dough as they sang.
Then they were asked questions about the
OK. Miss Catherine Cunningham drew the
figure of one of those useful animals on
blackboard and dissected it, assisted by the
class, into soup, stews, roast, prime ribs, sir
loin, tenderloin, rump, porterhouse, and
round beefsteaks, and it's a wonder they
didn't ring in Hamburger steak board
ing house steak, or mushroom sauce 10 their
minute dissection of the chalky animal.
AT the conclusion OF the exercises Mr.. Nor
ris X. Jesnp read an animal report. 1t showed
that during the year 10 604 lessons in cook
ing had been given by the school, which in
all ways had been highly successful. Teach
ers graduated from the school had been sent
TO many missions, schools, girls clubs, and
homes in this and neighboring cities, and had
everywhere given eminent satisfaction. Mr..
Jessup then delivered a short address, in
which he strongly advocated the introduction
into public and private schools of industrial
classes by which both boys and girls might
learn to support themselves in case of neces-
sity. Mr., Jesup said that the city Board of
Education had vigorously taken the matter
up. and he Was glad to see the growing tss-
dency to encourage youth in the idea that
labor IS not only respectable but necessary.
Mr.. Jesup was very earnest in what he said,
and was heartily applauded.
When he had flushed, everybody went up
stairs to the kitchen, where the children, en-
tirely unaided, had on exhibition most tempt
ing looking viands, which they had prepared
with their own little hands. TO show that
they were not afraid of the digestible quail
ties of this food the people bought much of it
and carried it away with them.
The success of this school has been some
thing wonderful. 1t was started only few
years ago by number of charitable ladies,
who went into the plan with the hope of ele-
waiting the standard of labor, aud of giving
young girls, who were compelled TO earn their
own ivi g, the practical means of learning
how to do 1t 1t has taught thousands of pu-
pills. many of whon have obtained permanent
positions after having graduated from the
school and has established branches in mary
cities in the Eastern States. Its managers
are thoroughly interested in their work and
nobly help it along, Mrs. Theodore Bronson,
It's President, having contributed largely, not
only financially but by personally giving aid
in Its management. 1t is hoped that either
this Winter or next cooking will be one of
the authorized branches of study in the city's
public schOols.-N Y. Times.
If they are convicted of heresy, the An
dover professors will probably not be put in
the stocks, nor have their tongues bored with
red hot iron, nor be banished from the Com
monwealth. New England customs are not
what they used TO be.-Tfibune.
cat, not liking the new home at Green
field, Nova Scotia, to which she had been
removed, took her six kittens and walked
with them back TO her former home at Mil
ton, distance of l6 miles Toronto Globe.
Deacon Peter X. Chandler, a greatly re-
spected citizen of Manchester, N. H., died
on Wednesday. He was born in Fryeburg,
Me-, in 1923, and left an adopted son, Frank
c., of Boston.