Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-02-13
Cooking School.

The Norfolk Landmark says
''Of course the real cooking school
for girls is their mothers kitchen, but
now many of them pursue this impor-
uant study there? Unhappily the
mother or the cook do not often know
now to cook, tor cooking is an exact
science and the relations between it
and the human stomach and human
happiness are so close that all three
have to be considered together. The
science of cooking, while it is vital to
civilization. is very simple; the chief
difficulty about it is in getting girls to
learn. They will readily study dane
ing, or skating, or hair curling-and
even dressmaklng although that is
often troublesome to learn, but cook
ing is-well the modern girl and especi-
ally the city girl. doesn't think she
ought to have to cook. She would
much prefer that her mother or grand
mother, her sister, cousin or aunt
should do that, ard in very many cases
she succeeds III getting tue mother TO
accept her view of it. Tue father
hardly ever does, but he submits 10
the impositiOns his wife accepts for
herself.
1t is far easier to learn to cook than
it is to learn the piano, and if girls
would give one-third as much time to
practicing on the range as they do to
practicIng on the piano they would be
angelic cooks and would produce easily
zen times us much happiness, for very
few of them ever learn to do more than
punish their friends with their MUSICAL
efforts.
1t is possible that some good NAV
i l.
other fads-for cooking schools and
the study of cooking is getting to be a
great fad North and East now and it is
aid that Boston girl can bake Il pie
Is quick as a cat can wink its eyes. 1t
Is better to know how to cut up tur
Key or an OK even than not to know
which is good for anything except base
pail. What a paradise this earth
would he if all the girls could cook de
lightfuIly and if they could all keep
house beautifully and better than all if
they all that can would do so and thus
rule the world more completely and
perfectly than men do who think they
are the lords of creation.
We publish the detailed reply of the
American Book Company to the
charges made against that company by
the Norfolk Pilot, at present in process
of litigation between Mr.. Massey and
The Pilot. The subject is interesting
TO the people of Virginia as it has been
injected into politics and involves high
officials of the state in the administra
ton of the educa tional business and in
that aspect the welfare of the Demo
cratic party to some extent. The par
~ lines have been so far broken dur
ing the undisputed rule of the DemOc
racy in national as well as local affairs
that the attack on the Board of Educa
tion found the Democratic leaders of
Virginia unprepared and out of camp
on furlough. so to speak. and-it is not
seen yet whether thex will accept the
call of the Pilot TO make party fight
out of the question or merely leave Mr..
Massey to settle the question at law
AT all events the statements of both
sides are OF interest to the public and
we will give them as far as they go.
As we have stated before, however, the
Board of Education of Virginia cannot
be convicted on mere stories of "a news
paper which have been so fatty denied
by such high authority. The people
OF Virginia are not prepared to take
the charges against the School Board
AS SO much political capital against the
Democratic party.-AleG. Times.
Mr.. Thomas r. Borland has address
ed letter to Hon. D. Gardiner Tyler
in which he withdraws from the con-
test for the seat in the Fifty-fourth
Congress from the Second Congress
sional District of Virginia.
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