Morning journal and courier., 1893-03-15
0 TERQUE BEATI.

Cooking Class.
 A delightful luncheon cooked to the pink of perfection was served by dozen little girls wearing white aprons and white caps at the cooking school on Whiting street at 11:3O yesterday morning.
 The small one story chapel-ike building has been put to variety of uses, but it has never been the means of doing so much good until the past year or 80. Twenty or thirty years ago it was one of the best schoolhouses in the city. Up to the past year the ungraded school has been located there. Now the cooking school of the New Haven school district Is there and is under the charge of Mics Emma Poison as special instructor in cooking.
 In this branch of the school work there are no examinations, but it has been the custom to entertain some school officials from time to time, thus giving the schol- ars an opportunity to test their knowl- edge.
 Tuesday is the day when the class from the Woolsey district meets Miss Poison; so yesterday the members of that class re- ceived as their guests those friends whom their teacher had invited. There were present: Rev. J. Lee Mitchell and Mrs. Mitchell, Samuel Hemingway of the board of education, Principal Pitman and Miss Darrow of Woolsey school, MT. Dickinson of Grand avenue school, and Miss Story of the Ferry eetechool.
 The lunch, which really was a dinner, was served at 11:30.~ The teacher and scholars were becomingly arrayed in white e1o and ThA foI, ,Ia was tastily arranged, a mass of red car nations serving as the center piece. Dainty menu cards announced the following:
 Puree of Potatoes.
 Salmon Loaf. Sauce Hollandaise.
 v.., so,s,. Princess Potatoes o...np.,.
 veal S00ne Potato au aratin. 'fssn feAS'
 Dressed sx To%stoes. sas;ss w,,IrS Brown % Bread.
 Alpine Pudding; scotres whipped Cream
 After lunch had been served Mir. Putnam made a short speech congrstulsting both teacher and scholars on their success. He called attention to the fact that the girls were gaining in the cooking school knowl- edge which would help them to make their homes pleasant and also to prepare them selves for that sphere of life to which they would be called when they had homes of their own. He remarked that while there were pleasanter things than backing 6 kitchen stove and scrubbing the floor, such work was not menial, but part of the duty of housewife.
 Rev. MT. Mitchell followed in one of his characteristic speeches. He said that he knew something about keeping fire in the kitchen stove, about scrubbing the kitchen floor and about eating. He was willing to testify to the fact that the school ex- celled in making it possible for him to use his judgment in regard to those three things. He told the story about one min ister when about to ordain another, stop ping in the ceremony and asking the can. didate If he was addicted to smoking. In application of the story he said that when he was called upon to perform the mar, ask the bride If she had ever taken lessons in the cooking school under Miss Poison.
 MT. Hemingway mentioned the strong probability there was of having better ac- commodations furnished the cooking school in the new manual training build- ing.
 Ar. Dickinson reminded the scholars what an effective means for winning friends Miss Poison was giving them.
 The whole affair was . great suocess The occasion will be remembered with pleasure by the entertainers as well as by the entertained.
 It was the opinion of all the guests that if rating was to be given to the work of the scholars 1t should be very high one, and that the same might be said of the work of the school as c whole.
 The following are the members of the cooking class from Woolsey district: Alice Bradley, Emily Bright, Isabelle Tickets, Matie Adams Eta Sparks, Jeasie Kay, Flora 1utterlick, Annie Murphy, Grace Thompson, Beside Bolton, Katis kasloWe, Minnie Blair,