New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-10-15
COOKING FOR TNT4LIDN.
A SCHOOL STARTED IN BROOKLYN WHERE
WOMEN WILL BIZ TAUGHT USE

Full KNOWLEDGE.
| Should bachelor fall i'll to-day In the city Of
| Brooklyn. easy call ne could get the services
! OF physicians who have superiors In any city
| In the world. Should surgery be needed. the most
| advanced methods. the most true and sklful
| hands, guided by scientific knowledge that never
errs. at his services. Through that ordeal.
we're though ii may be- he pass manfuy. but
when he is beginning to and the whole
mental moral and physical man needs coaxing
| petting and coddling TO his astonshment he sees
| the firm reliant dignity OF his manhood wilt down
| like a piece of chiffon in fog. At the first OPP
portunity he turns HIS face to the wall and cries.
II he were we'll he might do something worse. but
in illness that is what he does
This condition has existed since long before our
grandfathers' days. But II has to come to end
An association Of women knows just what tho
trouble Is and they have set themselves about. in
the right way. remedying nay. curing. the evil
Said they to themselves. we know how 10 give
grand dinners. diplomatic dinners woong little
home dinners. that fasten more firmly than any.
thing else can in bachelors mind the wish for q
home and sweet wife to rule and reign this
home. But. heaven help U.S. when our husband.
the Judge, or the Senator. the Mayor. has in
dulged little too much In grand dinners when
tho season Of dining out and giving dinners at
home is drawing TO close, and dear John finds
that his much-abused digestive organs have posi-
lively gone a prolonged strike. insisting upon
days and weeks of while repairs are going on.
low, although everybody knows he's the best hus-
band in the world"
They frankly admitted that their educations had
been neglected. and alone theirs, but all tho
world over the same defect might be noted. BY
Investigation they learned that at least woman
in New-York was gathering unto herself snug
little fortune by preparing dishes for invalids.
They felt somewhat saddened at the thought. for
Brooklyn likes 10 boast that she is the mother Of
reforms. However that was. and consequently
should not be grieved
At their club rooms No 10 Prospect Place they
will roll back their sleeves, pinning them tho
broad white cuffs worn by the pupils OF a cook
ing school. don waitress apron and plunge into
the task with a right good will
The Catholic Womens Association promoted
by Father McCary, VINO is certainly one OF the most
popular men in Brooklyn. Their aim and work is to
all intents and purposes. the same that of the
Young Women's Christian Association. Their men,
beers are mostly from among Father McCartys con-
grega,ion, but any Catholic woman may become a
member. and no respectable woman Of any church
of no church is debarred from the benefits that
the association confers upon the deserving. There
the ordinary classes in millinery dressmaking,
s,enosraphy, typewnting physical culture. vocal
music. bookkeeping, French, German practical
cooking and chafng-dish cooking and this fall and
winter they give thorough and careful study
invalid cooking.
What Brooklyn does need. and what any large city
needs training schools where wives and daugh.
and. sill important, a bureau (Which should be
a charity. that It's prices may within the means
of those OF moderate ncomes) which food OF this
be bought There a few places in
New-York where dishes for invalids can be bought,
but the prices asked for these articles beyond
the means OF a man OF small salary. This need not
be. The material used in the preparation OF dishes
Tor invalids Is comparatively inexpensive. The
trouble has heretofore been that so few people knew
how to prepare these foods. Women had devoted all
their energies the display side of the art OF cook
ing They learned 10 cook, cer,alnly--that became
a craze Fad. Everybody that any body went
TO cooking scnooi. placed her pieces exhibition.
and was just eager for the grand prize as she
dishes Tor invalids except by young women who
studying for trained nurses. In which
valid cooking became "A part Of their course
For bachelors In particular. VINO generally have
this bureau would be a boom indeed, Many q man
has been boarder In the house OF a good, kind
woman. who would gladly get something up TO tempt
his sick appetite II she only knew wat prepare
and now 10 prepare IL. And yet the poor fellow has
b.en obliged 10 I'm sick disgust at the Iln.
inviting display tnat II sent up 10 MIN from the
regions below.
In. following ladies have the invalid cooking
course 10 be and learned the clubrooms in
charge: Mrs. Bennett: Mrs; Thomas ". Hamilton.
Rowe. Miss Margaret Downing Miss Anna Hull.
Miss Grace Il Strachan Mrs. Thomas McCarty,
Miss Ella Kelly. Miss Anna Ryan. Mrs. James
Sheyln Miss Read and Mrs. John r. Kelly
The expense oY taking this course in invalid cook.
ing or OF the other lessons given az the associa
tion rooms is nominal The women not in the
business for money. but for the good they can do.