The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-05-14

in the KfOnQ1ke, anu ucr
one of the most important in all LONDON
A number of years ago she laid the foun-
dations of her present prosperity by
opening a modest but very practical
chool of cookery. At first there We're
small classes of ladies', who gathered I'M
der Mrs. Marshall's personal instruction
in a couple of little rooms, yet so ably did
she teach them that her fame spread
abroad. and women wishing for regula
emnlovment as cooks came to her for
training.
The development Of her calling gave
her the idea of opening an Establishment
in London, where every detail OF hltcneh
need. supply and comfort would be care
fully and scientifically considered. 10
his day the business goes under the title
of Marshalrs School of Cookery" bu
any woman who visits the establishment
on Mortimer street realizes that 'ns
plucky woman has done something more
thar carry on a school. The department
of instruction is maintained as vigorous
" as ever, and everyone, from duchesses
to draymen's wives, in need OF Kitchen
lore. comes to these classes for framing,
hut the business has a dozen equally as
valuable branches. One of the most I'M
portant is the intelligence office, to wnlcn
h~ouseholders resort when in search OF
cooks and to which cooks come in guest
of employment.
Clergymen,s wives, in from The country
and countesses in their carriages, pat
ronize the intelligence office, where the
cooks registered are all trained anc
youched for by the firm. When a woman
graduates from the cooking scnooi she
is given a diploma, which is a hlgn rec
o~mmendation wherever she may apply
AS a usual thing the graduates prefer te
pass into the intelligence office and thef
into good berths in the households OF
those who are eager to have and willing
to pay for skilled service.
But the intelligence department covers
more than one requirement for domestic
help in the kitchen. There is always II
the office a corps of clever emergency
cooks. cooks capable of commanding II
and directing a hotel or castle kitchen
cooks who go out on the job, Who VIII
engage only to prepare special meals, OF
special dishes, and cooks who are trained
DnI 1OC llfdIluS tlCCAo aAANt
In the school itself every method o.
preparing food from a baby's breakfast e
a state dinner, is taught, and the CLASSES
are carefully divided. From IL TO 4 every
day the white-aproned Instructors IN I'M
great rooms fitted as kitchens are drulns
aristocratic pupils, or laying down tn'
law of roasting n boiling to a corps O
women who are called apprentices, ane
spend several years in receiving, then
special education.
Across the hall from the intelligence
office is the supply bureau, from which
customers are sold all imaginable dainties
canned. boxed and bottled, and such fanc!
groceries as Mrs. Marshall herself re1ine'
| and prepares. Next to this IS the edltor
| Office. for the firm publishes its W serle
| of recipe books, and an attractive ftti
| monthly budget of kitchen news, contain
! ing advice to cooks, recipes, etc. "
| leaving this department one passes INT
| the shop where kitchen utensils are SOLD
| Here the latest Improvements in Goa
| charcoal. gas and electric stoves are ex
limited. with the most recent inventions
in wood, copper, tin, iron and aluminium
utensils.
In addition to all these Departments |
the exhibition hall. In spring AID autumn
| the graduating classes are examined an'
| show their prowess here, and the pa
irons of the house are invited in to rast
! of the new dishes Of Mrs. Marshall
invention. and to see her cooks at WORK
The hall is then filed with long table
| set luxuriously as for dinners, luncheons
suppers or breakfasts. The most recen
patterns in menus, floral and fruit decor
| ations. the arrangement Of roses and tn
lighting of tables are displayed, and tn
whole exhibition is accompanied by
series of lectures on the culinary art.
"Cuban men in arms frequently pre-
sent themselves for pardon. No Cuba
woman has ever been known to barte
fealty for mercy. There are traitors !
Cuba. but they are never women, de
clares Thomas Gold Alvord in an articl
discussing ."The Patriotism of the Cuba
Women in tho May "Wolaan's HON
Companion"
is full Of devoted women rear
edin Incidence and luxury who are tireles
in their. successful efforts to get wor
from one scattered rebel band to another
and to send them food, medicines an
clothing. These women are far bette
conspirators than their fathers an
brothers. for Cuban men must talk, an
/ therefore rarely hatch a plot before 1t
revealed. The women in that country
at least. seem to know the value Q
silence. They say little Of war, eve
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