Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-04-12
COOKING SCHOOL AT THE FAIR.
MISS JULIETTE coRsoN WIZ. CONDUCT
IT-wHAT SHE HAS ACCOMPLISHED.

IT-wHAT SHE HAS ACCOMPLISHED.
The Empire State enjoys the dis
tinction of having originated and car
ried to the point of success three i'm
portant branches of the education of
women, viz: training schools for nurs-
e., the kitchen garden, which is
household science applied to the kim
dergarten system, and the organization
of cooking schools and diet kitchens
upon a scientific basis.
Last June Mrs. Potter Palmer wrote
20 the New York State Board of Wo-
men Managers of the Worlds Colum-
bian Exposition in regard to the ex-
hIbit which would be made at the
Worlds Fair by the Committee on
l. terature and Education, psrticu-
larry urging the importance of making
an adequate exhibit of the progress
and interest of cooking schools and
training schools for nurses. The fol-
her interest in the subject:
"Of the two, l should much rather
have a cooking school than an exhibit
)f trained nurses from New York, as
that will be shown from many States
far has undertaken that most practical
and useful of all things--th Cooking
School Exhibit"
Mrs. j. S. 7. Stranahan, second vice
president of the board, communicated
Mrs. Palmer's request to Miss Corson,
and after due consultation, the Ex-
ecutive Committee of New York State
In fuu Board meeting, placed the or
IS
hIblt under Mss Corson's control,
comforting to her full power to act in
all matters appertaiuing TO the exhibit.
This does not merely consist of a series
of lectures on cooking; New York in
tends to show the scope and practical
usefulness of the work, which was
originated by Miss Corson. Therefore
the exhibit in addition to lectures on
cookery.
New York State intends to show the
scope and practical usefulness of this
work, which was originated by Miss
Corson. Therefore the exhibit, in ad
dition to lectures in cookery, includes
the practical treatment of general food
supplies and sanitary and dietetic
specialties for invalids and children. 1t
is also open to the exhibition of any
article or substance used by house.
keepers or suitable for their use, and
as household utensils and fittings,
labor saving devices, publications on
household sciences and domestic econ
omy, household sanitation and sanitary
dietetics: in short the exhibit will cover
the entire field of Miss Corson's work in
all matters pertaining 10 household
labor and the care of the family in
oil NJ hA
practical training OF women and men
sanitary knowledge. New York at first
applied for space for the exhibit in the
Liberal Arts Building, but abandoned
this application at the express desire of
Mrs. Potter Palmer to have the exhibit
placed in the Women's Building.
This exhibit whatever it is it will be
matter of pride to New York and salts
faction TO the entire country, because
Miss Corson's work is anything but
local. She has lectured and taught in
more than fifty of our larger cities, not
conGnIng her instructions to cooking
alone, but treating with practical skill
and common sense Judgment all those
problems that confront the wife and
mother In her daily life.
In 1879 MIR. J. Ormund Wilson, the
Superintendent of the public schools
at Washington, d. c., arranged for
the attendance OF the pupils of the
Washington Normal School at the les
sons on cooking given by Miss Corson
in that city. When the question was
first mooted of adding instruction in
cooking TO the subjects pursued in the
public schools in 1879, the Protestant
Board of School Commissioners of
Montreal, Canada, called Miss Corson
to make the practical denominations
which should decide the feasibility and
usefulness of this addition to the work
of the public schools.
In 1888 a special committee from
Oakland, Cal. arranged some demon
stration lessons IN cookery in the
chemistry room of the Oakland High
School, and chose workers from among
the pupils who had no experience in
domestic work. Miss Corson directed
the preparation of a number of funda.
mental dishes of cookery by the pupils,
the object being the practical test OF
the usefulness of the instruction and the
feasibility of combinding it with their
school work.
The result of these experimental les-
SSAS
chairman of tue committee, Mr.. j. II.
Jordan, by the principal of the high
school, the city school superintendent
and majority of the Board of Educa-
ton. The result WAS series of les
sons subsequently given successfully
by teacher trained by Miss Corson.
In 1884, while Miss Corson was de-
livering a course of instructions at
baltimore, Md, a committee of the
Board # Education attended in order
to decide upon the possibility of intro
duclng cooking into the Baltimore sys-
tenn of public instruction. In 1886 the |
Public Education Association, a COM
mlttee from the Normal School and I
several members of the Bord of Educa-
ton, OF Philadelphia, invited Miss Cor
son to make practical cooking dem |
onstratIon In the chemistry room of |
the Normal School. The result of sew
eral lessons which were given before |
the committees and other representa-
tlves of Philadelphia educational in
terests, was the Introduction of cook |
cry as one of the departments of public |
Miss Corson is in New York, busily |
engaged IN preparing for her extensive |
work at the Exposition. With all she |
has thus far accomplished she is not |
content, but with untiring zeal keeps !
on in the chosen work of her life time. |
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