Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-06
Budget of Gossip About Well
Known Men and Women.
MARIA PARLOA AND HER WORK.
Some Day, She Thinks, the Chemistry of
Food Will be Better Understood.
Julian Hswthorne's Appearance---DaVid
Dudley Field Very Feeble--GossIp
About Big Salarics-Eh
Perkins Speaks.

New York, Feb 29.-Miss Maria
Parloa is a owoman who perhaps has
done more than any other woman in
the United States to make men and
women happy and contented- She has done
this in the most practical way, too, by
teaching how to cook and eat nutritious
foods. 1t is not so many years ago that the
American housewife was entirely ignorant
Of the proper way of preparing foods.
Miss Parloa saw the need of some radical
change in our method of cooking and eat
ing, and she became the pioneer of the
work, She is as great in her way as any
woman in our land. For myself, I think
she is one of the greatest benefactors of
the age. Her lectures and books on cook
ing have made her famous. She has taught
classes in New York, Boston, Chicago,
Philadelphia, St. Louis, Milwaukee and
other of the larger cities and the books of
which she is the authoress have had an az
gregate sale of over 800, 900 copies, while a
work upon which she is now engaged will
have an initial issue of 100 600 copies.
In addition to tbs she writes weekly
letters for a syndicate of newspapers, is
one Of the editors of the Ladies' home
journal and leading contributor to Good
Housekeeping. Articles by her have also
appeared from time to time in the Century
Magazine, North American Review,
Youths COMPANION and many other publ
cations. Her work aud writings have so
stirred up interest in the subject of cookery
that it is now included in the course of
study in the grammar schools of Boston
and has led to the establishment of schools
for the study of the science, as she regards
it, in many other places.
Not content with studying and improving
upon the methods of cooking followed by
English-sp speaking people, Miss Parloa has
spent considerable time in studying the
methods of the cooks of Germany and
L L. 80 h,V. ~, nj
edge of cookery she has mastered chem
istry, physiology and the French and Ger
man languages. In short, she has done the
utmost any woman could do to disassociate
cooking from grease and smell and lift 1t to
the dignity OF a science. She has led So
called society ladies to take profound in
tereSt in subject once considered beneath
the notice of the woman of fashion, and has
taught wives and children of the poor, as
missionary might disseminate religion, to
improve their methods, arguing that in
their case it would be reward enough to
know that her labOrs were for the good of
humanitY-that is, the dyspepsia-threat-
ened portion of it.
Miss Parloa is charming, kindly and
generous woman; a lover of good literature,
of music and art, and passi0nately fond of
flowers. Her charities have brought bright
ness to many poverty-darkened home, and
she thinks the fact she has several pension
ers, who, without having claim, depend
wholly upon her, is a secret TO the world, as
perhaps it has been until now. She first
began her public career in work of charity.
A little church in Mandaria, Fla, in which
Professor Stowe, the husband of the au-
thoress of Uncle Toms Cabin" preached
on Sundays, was in 1876 sadly in need of an
organ. Miss ParlOa was then teaching
school in the little hamlet, and for the ben
eft of the cause gave a public lesson on
cooking at New London, Conn. As a re-
suit the church got its organ, and Miss
Parloa found herself on the threshold of
fame. She was at once in great demand
as q lecturer, and the following fall, with
the assistance of board of women, Miss
Parloa founded what at the end of five
years became the widely known Boston
booking school In 1882 she established
similar school in the city of New York