The morning times., 1896-05-03
TOTS LEARN HOW I0C0OK
How the Mission Cooking Schoo
Does Its Work.
TEN-YEAR-OLDS ARETAUGHT
Mrs. Anna L. w oOd ward the Founder,
Is Assisted by Efficient Instruc-
tors-To Help Others Help Them
selves Is Their Motto-SchoOI Is
Non-Sectarian.

To help Others to help themselves has
been the work of the Mission Cooking
School. OF this city, for more than sixteen
years.
Under the careful management of its
founder, Mrs. Anna l.. Woodbury., assisted
by her efficient aides, Miss Adelaide
Payne and Miss c. E. Lewis, this school
goes on, year after year, training young
girls, from ten to sixteen years of age,
White aud colored, in all branches of house
hold work, so that at the END of their
course, they are ready to take positions
for domestic service and to fill them with
self-respeCting ability TO the entire salts
faction of their employers and to the
comfortable support of themselves.
When. in the advancement that nearly al
ways follows real merit. these girls come
to be heads OF homes OF their own. their
lives will be all the happier for the skill
and economy they can bring TO bear on their
domestic affairs.
The school. which is entirely non-sec-
tartan. is in charge of Miss Lewis, and the
skill and patient interest with which she
instructs her pupils. contributes largely
to its success. There are afternoon classes
every day in the week, except Saturday,
with an average of fifteen pupils each.
On Friday afternoon. as Times reporter
visited the school in roomy old red
brick building ON the corner or Thirteenth
aud r streets, northwest, class OF CoiOred
pupils were about to begin their lessons,
aud that they meant 10 ENJOY them was
manifest by the subdued exuberance with
which each tot bubbled in and tC OK her
| especial seat on row of benches facing
the teachers desk.
Miss Payne Kindly explained to the re-
porter the routine of the work.
MISS PAYNE EXPLAINS.
''These Children" she said, nodding
towards the beaming youngsters, each OF
whom was making selfmportant display
of her text book, know how to build
! fire properly and to prepare such dishes
as they have made here under he'direction
OF Miss Lewis. Tell me, children, how
many OF you have cooked at home this
week?''
I'D flashed three small hands.
! Miss Payne looked QueStion;ngly at the
! oldest, a crumb OF a creature as brown as
a Glove.
"I-I--broilcd a steak" responded the
crumb with all embarrassed stammer that
set the others to giggliug.
II billed beans" chirped out an ire
preSsible sight, while her neighbOr hung
her head shyly as she Hsped out the IN
formation that she had baked "a panner
O. biscuits"
This continued Miss Payne, stepping
. into the adjoining room, lis where the
pupils cook" 1t was CHEEKY aud ex-
auisitcly clean place, and in the center OF
the floor stood long narrow table on
which lay rolling pin and bread board as
| spotless as virgin pine, though in use for
! sixteen years. In one corner was gas
| stove and ranged againsS the opposite
! wall were shelves of china bowls and plat
| ters and shining rows of TINS.
THEN THEY EAT
When the days tuition in the class room
! Is ended Miss LIE wis stands at the head or
| this table with her pupils ranged on each
+ side and watches them while they demon
stratc practically the lesson they have just
! learned.
| When the tiny chefs have cooked their
! dish they eat it by way of reward.
| This mission school is a charity so de-
/ serving and its aims are so thoroughly
! in keeping with the best ideas of modern
! ethics that it Will doubtless meet with
/ most generous support.
| Mrs Lucy Underwood McCann viii de-
liver a course OF lectures on California"
/ for the benefit OF the school at All Souls
| Church. May 4, and 6, and it is the
hone OF those interested in this charity
that the public will cooperate so far as to
| furnish them with the necessary FUNDS
| to properly carry out their plans.