The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-10-27
The Dance Gives Way to
the Cooking Stove and
the TypeWfiting
Machine.
PRACTICAL AND INTERESTING STUDIES
Fashionable Young Women Learn
ing How to Earn Their Liveli-
hood in Event of a Change
of Fortune.

A change naS come over Iue uream
of the Young woman of the fashion
able set, says the Philadelphia Press.
Balls have in a measure lost their in
terest and the seasons dances are no
longer of absorbing interest. In this
practical and enlightened age her
dainty feet keep step with progress
and competency; her mood becomes
appositive to the spirit of the time.
She is no longer local, narrow, or con-
ventional; she passes from the draw
ing room into tne real world, with all
its necessities, prepared and %expectant
to meet and conquer them; she is no
longer content to achieve triumphs of
a merely social nature, but mas de-
cided to acquire more even than the
mere artistic success to be deri we'd
from the polite accomplishments of
painting and music.
Accordingly the society belle has
turned her mind to the achievement
of domestic and merchantile attain
ments. The scene of her local pre-
paration and progress is the Drexel
Institute. The medium of her success
is the stenographer's pencil, the typ
ing machine, and the commonplace
cook-stove. The object of her en-
beavers is the ability to be enabled to
earl her own livelihood in case of any
of the vicissitudes, SO possible to the
ever-changing American community,
overtaking her.
THE SCOPE OF INSTRUCTION.
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These young girls are instructed in
all the branches of domestic economy
from polishing the stone and laying a
fire to the price of eggs and the
chemical composition of food, its
effect upon the system, its nutritious
or facilitating effect-in fact all mat
tiers relating to the kitchen, the pantry
and the storeroom, and how to pre-
pare and serve a dinner and to ar
range the table and handle the guests.
There are two airy and bright
kitchens at the DreXel Institute de-
voted to cookery classes under the in
struction of Miss Spring and Miss
Coolidge. The class comprised of
young society women meet every Fri
day morning between the hours of
nine and two o'clock. Each girl
wears a cap and apron. She has be-
lOIG llGE S6dt d ldUtC Oh Which, Is d
small gas stove. With this diminu-
tive continuance she cooks the dish as,
signed to her and during the curse Of
which operation she may ask ques-
tions and receive the necessary in
struction. The materials for this pur-
pose are provided by the institute. 1t
is generally eaten by the pupils of the
class, and very jolly little luncheons
are held, for the class is comprised en-
tirely of more or less intimate friends.
A YEARLY PRIVILEGE.
At the end of the year each young
lady is expected to purchase, prepare
and serve a dinner in the dining room
adjoining the kitchens of the institute
for any six of her friends she may care
to ask, the condition being that the
dinner shall not cost more than So.
Other classes popular with the
young society women of the town are
the physical culture, with instruction
in the Swedish movement for the de-
v%elopment of the physique, and the
class in s~tenographv and typewriting.
This fad at once SO sensible and in
teresting is likely to develop to a very
appreciate degree. as the pupils are
intensely interested in their work and
the lectures that supplement the prac-
tical part of the instruction.
Truths About the Fair Sex.