The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-31

JOLLY BACHELORS, THEY
Happy Life of Four Stu
dents Who SCorn Board
ing House Fare.
BUDDHISM AND HOME MADE BREAD
Society Bellies Who Are Good
Cooks-Easter Festivities
Musical Items.
BUDDHISM AND HOME MADE BREAD

AS one may Quu SOmeWuer6 III duo9HSh
column, there is a cooking class in town,
who mission is to reach the hearts OF
women, and indirectly the digestions OF
men, and bring them back to a normal
condition again. Now this is very we'll,
and, no doubt. the most experienced
cooks can learn a great deal from Miss
Ponds experiments with decorative
Russian bowls and aesthetic flour %sifters,
yet let us offer a general protest against
saying, that as a class, Jersey City girls
know nothing about cooking. Why, they
all dol Is there not a Luncheon Club
among us? A Luncheon Club whose
%luncheons are the net results of its mem
ber's culinary experiments-unless, as
one once told me, Were in too much
in a hurry. and just get somebody else 60
do it for u.s." l am assured even this
does not happen more than once IN three.
And where would the church supper
be, were there no good cooks among. our
young women? "a church supper without
cream layer cake with a top,
would be a bootless undertaking. Cream
LAYER cake that Is too sticky Tor the
fingers, and won't hold together on a
fork, and sheds cocoanut in all directions.
This is always made by young women
The matrons confne themselves to
chicken salads and sandwiches, and sub
stantials Of that sort.
ALL THESE CAN COOK.
Perhaps you would like the names of a
few pretty young cooks among our So
ciety girls, just to prove that this is SO.
There Is Miss Maud Williams, of Clinton
avenue. to begin with. She can do any
thing in this direction that she sets out
to do. Miss Maud Chiffon, of Duncan
-or,o 4, nnofhor Che ic oifrad i'm au-
cry other way, too, SO her cooking capaci-
ties have not had a chance TO shine above
the rest. but they are there.
The Misses Mary and Louise Doremus,
of Pacific avenue. can make homemade
candies so good that their very memory
upsets nv sentences. Besides this, they
could take a diploma in tcaka making il
they had to pass a competitive examine
ton. Miss Jennie Scott. of Tonnele ave-
nue., aud Miss Jean ToffeY can read their
title clear to this honor.
Perhaps, when you were away at board
ing-school, you have speared soda-crack-
ers with a hat-pin. and toasted them at
the gas Jetp II you haven't, your life is
vet incomplete. Here is a recipe that
came to me straight from boarding
school. and I am requested not to give
the donors name away:-Procure a num-
Der of soda-crackers. If they be procured
from somebody's else supplies, they will
taste much better. Butter very sparsely,
sprinkle with a bit of salt. and place in
beautiful tan brown, then take them out
and eat them piping hot, as an obligato
to tea,
A mere man, who went to Europe ten
years ago aud has just returned, said to q
friend of mine that the greatest sign of
the age was that whereas, at the time he
left there were old maids, when he re-
,r,rr1I fhara runrn mn ~, p huahnlnrc
Jersey City can boast of at least four
bachelor girls, living in the most APP
proved bachelor girl manner, In a dear
little furnished flat on the Heights. They
are q practical demonstration OF the value
of cooperative housekeeping. One Is an
ardent disciple of Miss Ponds cooking
class, although, to her credit be it said.
ing on the rest. She has said, however,
that operations in this direction Will be-
gin in the near future. so the domestic
harmony will a v a test.
The reason why they are forming part
of this article. is Do account of the home
made bread that comes upon their table,
white and wholesome, never soggy, and
never of the rubbery fibre characteristic
of the bakers article. 1t has been the
writer's privilege to attend one of the
nightly seances. when the dough is
solemnly set away to rise, n more than
one of the "dove parties" where it has APP
peared on the table. The nucleus of this
domestic arrangement was formed by
two sisters who came from the West
year before last, ont to cultivate a fine
soprano voice, the other to take care of
her yo n sister, and pursue her
art studies. They began with
light housekeeping in one large
room, with au oil stove behind a
screen for a kitchen and. violin boxes,
music stands and color soudies adding d
picturesque quality to the furnishings.
1t proved SO successful that another
young student from P%ittsburg. a friend
Of the two pioneers, Joined them, and the
three Get up housekeeping in a little fiat.
Their friends, for they have a host of
them, have watched the enterprise with
delighted interest. and in their little
dining room there nave been dove
feasts," where some of our most we'll
known musicians aud literary lights have
gathered. Lately, the elder sister of the
second arrival has come from Plttsburg
for "a visit, SO there is a merry little quar-
tette.
There is plenty of music at this house,
for both the younger girls are studying
the violin, one, as was said. has a beauti-
ful soprano voice. and all play the piano.
There are plenty of pictures, forsthe front
parlor is papered with home photographs,
and news brought from abroad. There is
plenty of bright conversation, and it you
want to talk Theosophy or Esoteric
Buddhism. or crinoline, or the construc-
tion of an apple pie, yon can find some
one to speak understaDdingly and with
ont false pretences. In short, they are
four bright, sensible girls. devoted to
their work, finding their social life in
their home and those of their friends,
solving the problem of cooperation in