The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-03

them with nothing to say; or if they sug-
gested that vegetable soup seventeen times
in succession is too much of a good thing,
the discussion is brought to an end al once
by request for information how to make
some other kind of soup. At the same
time, he doesn't need to learn all that a
woman knows about cooking. So far as
practical work goes, he just wants to know
how to catch up something when he feels
like 1t and cook it. So Wen have some
lectures on the general principles of cook
ing, and a course of practical instruction
in camp cooking"
Therefore in this cooking school they
teach you to take a soap box and line 1t
with zinc and put sand in the bottom of
it, or do something of the kind and then
you play at camping out in the woods and
cook in the soap box. There is a great
deal of fun about belonging to a class in
this cooking school, and no harm done.
The answer made by wives and landladies
to circumstances is that they haven't been
taught to cook in a soap box, but only
with range, and that is all there is to It..
To all this theory and practice the
founder of the other cooking school re-
piled:
Nonsense. If a man went up into the
AdirondaclIs and camped out in the
woods, it's a hundred to one that he
wouldn't find a soap box to cook with,
ana II Dy any Chance ne ulu ilIlu lHe soap
box, he certainly wouldn't find any zinc
lying around loose in the woods. So a
pretty pickle he would find himself in.
Again so far as my experience goes, peo-
pie camping out in the woods live chiefly
upon canned goods No. The camping
out cooking class is not practical. The
chatting dish is thing for a class of men.
We will teach them to cook with a chatting
dish both the plain, everyday dishes, and
Lserl.n fpfr he Of sf ran ART
so that whatever position they may find
themselves in, they will be able to provide
for themselves so long as they have a
chatting dish, fire and something to cook.
Then their usefulness will be extended,
their ideas broadened, and their artistic
ideas nurtured."
All this sounded plausible and unobjec-
tlonabe, and a great many men were
found to join the cooking class. The theory
was carried into practice by a young wo-
man with a diploma as bachelor of cook
cry, or whatever the degree may be, in
such a manner that a course in the class
was a liberal education. The pupils were
spurred to their best efforts by the knowl-
edge that they were expected to eat what
they cooked before going home, and so
very fine cooks indeed were turned out. 1t
was rather hard on the wives and land
ladies', the flood Of superior knowledge that
was started loose on them, but they bore
UP bravely, and were furthermore encour-
aged to exercise this kind of small heroism
by the exuberant good humor in which
their husbands and boarders came home
on cooking class nights. So the school
seemed to be of general benefit and nobody
ever dreamed of the possibilities Of trou-
BILE that lay in 1t.
The hero who points the moral and
adorns the tale was married. BY dint OF
personal sacrifices and unremitting effort
they were able to keep a servant. In con-
versations at various times with her mis-
tress, the servant established her position
in the household as follows:
II can't run the furnace, ma'am," she
said.
very WELL" said her mistress, I'VE will
hire a man to do it."
81 can't do the washing, ma'am," she
said.
very we'll" said her mistress, I'VE will
send IL out"
IL can't do the house cleaning" she said.
Every WELL" said her mistress, I'VE will
get in a woman by the day to do it."
81 can't wash the windows, ma am, or
make the beds" she said.
Every WELL" said her mistress, II will
have it attended TO-"
Il can't do any but plainest cooking"
she said
VERY WELL" said her mistress, I'VE will
live plainly"