Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-05
WITCHERY or COOKERY.
A SCIENCE THAT ALL YOUNG LADIES
sHO0LD MASTER.
Sacramento to Have School of Cookery
How Foreign Ladies are Trained
in the Art.

A good story is told of a newly married
couple who had just concluded their honey
moon and settle down to enjoy love in a
cottage" and all that sort of thing, and
were specializing on the future.
"Do you think, DEAR" asked the fond
bride, that our bark will be able to stem
the tides and sail smoothly along on the sea
Of matrimony?"
"Oh, l think So" remarked the some
what practical minded husband, but
wouldn't it be good idea just now to put
into the nearest port and ship good
cook ?"
Which calls to mind the fact that there
is movement on foot in this city at this
time to establish school of cookery, and
in which young society ladies are evincing
considerable interest. 1t is allowed that
there is nothing new under the sum-"
and perhaps there is little that is new
to be said about schools of cookery, as
it is agreed by sages that they afford most
useful branch of education, worthy of the
gravest thought, and should command the
attention of all in every station of life.
Women should learn not TO spend the
money intrusted to their care for house
keeping without deep consideration. There
is now scarcely any excuse for young
girls on leaving schoolno completing their
education in studying the science of cook
cry. Much has been said in the past about
the German girls looking down upon the
English girls attempts at cookery. and
that the latter might learn many lessons
from them. In eXtenuation of the English
girls the answer was that they thought
more about the culture of their minds than
about their dinners.
Happily, that is an exploded idea. They
combine both, as much for the comfort of
others as for themselves. Of course it is a
we'll known fact that the German "haus-
than their friends across the chan
mel, simply because it lis with
most of them made an early study.
When the girls leave school they are sent
to pension to learn housekeeping, if only
for the purpose of giving directions to serv-
ants as to how domestic work should be
properly performed-from cooking, wash
ing and ironing to making saussges, if in
the country.
The Austrian ladies of high birth are
wonderfully capable, owing to their ex-
cellent system of education, from cutting
dress to making a salad. They are always
ready Young ladies with titles and for
tunes are sent to famous milliners and
dressmakers, where they serve a regular
apprenticeship and remain until perfectly
able to cut and make garment. The
burgher's daughters will not condescend to
the learning of dressmaking and cooking,
while all the ladies at the Court have at
their fingers ends the power to do any
thing, and are well acquainted with every
detail of the cuisine.
And so it is in England. Among the
many changes which this rapidly depart
ing century has brought to the surface, per-
haps there is none more striking than the
awakened avidity which the rising genera
ton are now displaying for thoroughly
practical and useful education that will fit
them to adorn and grace the noblest house
holds, insuring peace and regularity. The
fostering mother of all science and art
the South Kensington Museun-has
worked wonders in developing latent talent
and aspiring geniuses, who would other
wise have remained in dark obscurity. In
this conn ection is the School of Cookery,
and it is well encouraged and patronized.
Many of the students are fitted as teachers
and are granted diplomas after they have
mastered the chemistry of food, physiolo-
gy, high-class, sick-room, plain cookery,
domestic economy, etc, and are scattered
as teachers all over the United Kingdom,
carrying light, brightness and love OF in
dustry to many homes: Never, since the
days when Alfred the Great lent his royal,
but distracted mind to the onerous duties
imposed upon him, Of the careful watch
ing of the toothsome cakes, have
ladies OF rank, position and refinement
striven so hard to distinguish
themselves more signally than this
great man in the manufacture and
baking of bread and cakes He failed in
demonstration, and doubtless his inca
pacity may have caused him blush of
shame. Likewise these selfinstituted
workers may feel perturbed at occasional
failures, which, rightly viewed, do not dis
courage, but rather stimulate to further ex-
ertions.
No one visiting the school can help being
struck with the eager desire to obtain per-
lection as he watches the students working
with assiduity and perseverance for admin
istration Of the gastronomic delights which
they know will do so much to secure peace
and happiness in their future households,
being appreciative of the misery and dis
cord which arises from slovenly inatten-
ton to the most important item of our
daily health and happiness, and neglect of
which may cause disorganized digestions
and unhappy homes.
Schools of cookery are cropping up both
in Canada and the United States, and there
is much enthusiasm displayed among
young society ladies to understand thor
oughly the culinary art, and amusingly
enough they generally acknowledge that it
is their fathers or brothers Tor may be their
intended husbands) who wish them to
learn. The English have the credit al
being especially fond of good eating, but
evidently the gentlemen of America must
have spice of the epicure in their compo-
sition as well. The American ladies are
allowed to be extremely clever house
keepers. One remarked the other day that
"they gain their experience at home"
Still, lessons in a school of cookery are
matter of economy, as all waste of mate
rails in experiments are thereby prevented.
Naturally enough, most young ladies
land some who are not SO young) hope to
some day preside over households of their
own, aud they should not lose sight of the
important fact that they cannot become
successful housewives without a full
knowledpe 0f the science of cookery