The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-02-05

instead OF wine light decoction OF Peru
Wan bark Zone gramme for each three
lstres Of wa5er) boiled for an hour: bread.
cents; four small fresh mackerel. %
cents: butter. ceats: rice cooked with
lard. cents: the lard. 8 cents. Another
dinner-Pea soup, cents; ragcut Of mutt
ton. % cents: noodles, 8 cents bread.
cents: rice pudding. s cents. And all
cooked at home. The price does not in
ciude the fuel. and 1t excludes the MORN
ing chocolate, made with raiik. al cents
each. and 1t insists that both the hus-
band and the son should come home Tor
both deieuner and dinner. The family is
engaged in writing a book on how to eat
two meals on 20 cents day. In order that
they may cease living at that rate them
selves.
There might be other reasons given for
tha carefuiness Of ali French cooking,
such as high rents. the elevated prize OF
fuel by reason OF the city taxes CSC, 600
of revenue ON food and fuel IN lsSO. the
toy house manner OF apartment life. the
unit of xthe frame against the dollar OF
Amersc0. and quite as powerful as all
ether facsors-the sequestration OF young
girls. A French girl has little gayety I'M
til she uarrses. She is forbidden to CAD.
She stays AT home: and 50 she learns to
take In interest in the things OF home
In ali the higher primary Schools for
struction in housekeeping and cooking.
In the girls professional schooss-of
dressmGking. corsetmaking. CRITICAL
flower making, and 50 on-the course OF
cooking is compulsory: and 1t includes a
weekly visit by each giri-!n various de-
tachments day by day to the great mar
kets. The professors OF cuisine are NAMED
by the minister OF pubic instruction.
Each week eight students leave their
work and labor in the kitchen OF the
schooL For a fun week they only cook.
prepare the vegetables and meats. wash
up the dishes and the rest. And daily re-
lays OF the other girls are taken with
them to the markets for an hour, while
other relays Rtch them in the kitchen
FOR an hour. Tie eight do not prepare
food for these other girls. but only for
themselves. Because, to learn economy
In practice. the requirements OF a family
must be well appropriated. ThereforY
these eight young persons have each day
dollar given to them 10 provide break
fast for ten persons-our old friend. 10
cents meal. which Is the IDEAL figure.
You must know how to buy as well as
cook In orderteo accomplish such mag
ical performance.
AT home In every bookcase is the cook
book. The cookery magazine-there are
some twenty III wide OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
as regularly as the illustrated weeklies
In good miedle-class families And mar
ried ladies. well placed In q worldly way.
run to The fashionable cookery confer
ences'' az they run to hear old Fran
cisaue Sarcey at the odeon upon the
drama. or as they ran to hear NJ. Bruno
there at the Sarbonne. on literature.
Every young girl. rich or poor" re-
marks Jules Simon. OF the Ins.itu..
should learn the cuisine: II Is better than
to learn 10 play on the piano. The poor
should know how to nourish themselves
IN q passahie manner on little money.
the rich have need to eat brilliantly ana
vet not compromise their health
The cookery conferences OF NJ. charse.
Drtessens have had a local vogue. Tara
him. for instance. on the mutton raros,t.
While the ragout Is cooking. mes
DANES. viii expose the theory. : .
The ragout Is. above all. economical AM,
yet II Is worthy to be seen on anv sas,rs
1t gathers up variety in unity
In that u has vegetables. IL II a faxafixa.
in that IL has meat. !. ia fort.fer. Ara
It has this aavantage-ft permits one !,
absorb an actually sufficient mass Of ALL
rnenf. which does not always happen
! with the grill and roast"
Then he tells how 10 make II.
The present writer Ia no roos h.os
and he does not know how to begin -
make the royal ragout OF the French. al
though he heard the lecture. But he has
same dim rernenhrances OF ssartTns .
phrases and fine theories which str.,ck
on his mind and sturk there. though. chew
came as vague signing OF MUSIC IA.
away. as he Was looking az the nrs.ty
women. hundreds OF them. sitting rnt,-,f
the arnpAisheater that sunny winter a fter-
noon. shtsut and eager. flushed and moist
eyed. hat upon the tran OF learning how.
by new economy more scientific than
their mothers taught them, TO knock down
pocket money on their husbands, on tho