The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-10
The COOKING SCHOOL.
What a Boarder Thinks Of Its I'm
portance.
HOW PEOPLE COOK GENERALLY.
While the supply OF Materials May DO
Adequate the Methods of Preparation
Are such that the Food Causes Bad
Tempers, Swearing; Perhaps Worse

The announcement that the Tyler
school is to add to its curriculum the
practical subject of cooking in all It's es-
sential forms Is matter OF interest TO
every man, woman and child in this city.
Our public schools have cooking depart
ment which has already accomplished
vast amount of good, but which is unfor-
tunately not SO thoroughly understood
or so well furnished with money and ac-
commodations as it should be for the best
kind of work.
Every poor fellow who has lived In
boarding house or boarded in private
family" knows that. while the supply
of food purchased may have been such as
would have made an excellent meal, the
process of preparing 1t for the table Is
usually execrable and the result Is that
the people supposed to eat the viands get
bad tempers and bad stomachs and learn
to swear and perhaps eventually go TO the
bad altogether or commit suicide, whlch
the general belief supposes to result In
their going to the bad place.
Now the cooking school when properly
conducted not only teaches the pupils
how to cook the food, but what to buy Tor
a meal and how TO select the difterent
articles from the market. how to prepare
them for cooking and how TO serve them
on the table.
or course husbands and sons are not
allowed by the spirit of family loyalty TO
complain of the family cooking, but no
doubt hundreds Of them do inwardly pro-
tests against the methods of feeding them.
Their sisters may 10 to college and learn
some artistic turns at cooking, but wnat
about the girl who is hired 10 work In
the kitchen? a very shrewd housekeeper
uaf N
to one she can't be broken OF bad
habits already learned and in many cases
the mistress doesn't know AS much as the
maid. Now the advantage of good cook
ing school in the public schools and In all
institutions where girls are taught is
that they may learn how to prepare food
in such manner as to please rather than
exasperate the persons for whom 1T is IN
tended and then there will be places
enough in hotels and private families for
all the expert cooks that the scfpols can
turn out and misery aud crime Will surely
decrease.
There is room for more and better work
at the city cooking school on Fountain
street and every woman who is interested
in the subject ought to take an interest
In theschool and help to make sentiment
for 1t until 1t becomes what it ought to
become in the public school system.
Talking of the schools Of PROVIDENCE,
no one eau deny that the public schools
are the most important, because the ma
jority Of the children go there and get no
iuther. That Is why the elements Of
trades should be taught there, aud il boys
and girls, too, learn TO do work by which
they can earn their living, in tue manual
training school, which opens this sea-
son, there will be different future
for great many of them than
they might have mad under the old
regime Brown University and the
various technical schools and private
schools in the city have their own indis-
putable spheres of usefulness but the
public schools owe to the children, nearly
all of whom attend them, and many OF
whom get no farther, all the advantages
to fit them for practical life which can
be supplied. The public schools are
growing but too much attention cannot
be paid to cooking. Ihave no doubt that
i'm many fearful crimes where no motive
can be discovered bad cooking may have
been the remote origin of the evil.
ONE OF THE BoARDERS