The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-05-01

earned Her fortune is as large and
solid as the most ambitious could hope
to win in the KIondille, and her estab-
lishment is one OF the most important in
all London. A number of years ago she
] laid the foundations of her present pros
perity by opening a modest but very
practical school of cookery. At first
there were small classes OF ladies, who
gathered under Mrs. MarshalFs personal
instruction in a couple of little rooms,
yet so ably did she teach them that her
fame spread abroad, and women wish
ing for regular employment as cooks
came TO her for training.
This development of her calling gave
her the idea of opening an establish
ment in London, where every detail of
kitchen need, supply and comfort would
be carefully and scientifically consid-
cred To this day the business goes I'M
der the title Of 'Marshalls school of
cookery" but anyone who visits the
establishment on Mortimer Street real
ICES that this plucky woman has done
something more than carry on a school.
The department of instruction is main
tanned as vigorously as ever, and every
one, from duchesses to draymen's wives,
in need of kitchen lore come to these
classes for training, but the business
has a dozen equally valuable branch
es. One of the most important is the in
telligence Office to which householders
resort when in search of cooks and to
which cooks come in quest of employ
ment.
Clergymens wives, in from the coun-
try, and countesses in their carriages
patronize this intelligence office. where
! the cooks registered are all trained and
| vouched for by the firm. When a
woman graduates from the cooking
school she is given a diploma which is
high recommendation wherever she
may apply AS a usual thing the grad
yates prefer to pass into the intelligence
office and then into good berths in the
households of those who are eager to
have and willing to pay for skilled ser
vice.
But the intelligence department covers
more than one requirement for domestic
help in the kitchen. There is always in
the office a corps of clever emergency
cooks, cooks capable of commanding in
and directing a hotel or castle kitchen,
engage only TO prepare special meals, or
special dishes and cooks who are trained
but for invalids' needs and for hospitals.
In the school itself every method of
preparing food, from a babys breakfast
to a state dinner, is taught. and the
classes are carefully divided. From 10
! to every day the white aproned in
structors in the great rooms fitted
Kitchens are drilling aristoCratic pupils,
or laying down the law of roasting and
| boiling TO a corps of women who are
| called apprentices, and spend several
years in receiving their special education.
| Across the hall from the intelligence
office is the supply bureau from which
customers are sold all Imaginable dain-
| ties canned, boxed and bottled and
such fancy groceries Mrs. Marshall
! herself refines and prepares. Next to
| this is the editors Office, for the firm
| publishes its own series of recipe books,
| and an attractive little monthly budget
! of kitchen news, containing advice to
| cooks, recipes, etc. On leaving this de-
| partment one passes into the shop where
| kitchen untensils are sold. Here the lat
| est improvements in coal, charcoal gas
| and electric stoves are exhibited, with
! the most recent inventions in wood cop
! per tin, iron and aluminium untansiIs
| In addition to all these departments is
| the exhibition hall. In Spring and Au-
| tumn the graduating classes are exam
| ned and show their prowess here, and
| the patrons of the house are invited in
to taste of the new dishes of Mrs. Mar
| shalTs invention and TO see her cooks
| at work. The hall is then filed with long
| tables set luXunously as for dinners.
/ luncheons, suppers or breakfasts The
| most recent patterns in menus. floral and
| fruit decorations, the ARRANGEMENTS of
roses and the lighting of tables are dis
! played, and the whole exhibition is COM
pared by a series of lectures on the cult
nary art.