New-York tribune., 1902-05-10
ENTERTAIN IN KITCHEN.
GUESTS SHOULD GATHER THERE-IT is
MORE SOCIABLE. SAYS PRO-
FESSOR GULICK.
HE CONDEMNS ARTIFICIAL MODES OF LIv-
ING. AND THINKS HOUSEWIVES
SHOULD PREPARE MEALS.

SHOULD PREPARE MEALS
The best and most beautiful in the house
should be the kitchen. where ones friends should
gather while the hospitabe preparation goes on.
and would have the cooking done by my wife
and daughters and myself said Professor Luther
Gulick Of Pratt High School, yesterday to the
New-York State Household Economic Association.
The modern chafng dish is healthy and
praisewoTthy TeveTsion to the earlier social aspect
Of eating. and it may bring back that finer element
Of hospitality which has been lost in later luxuri-
Gus and artificial modes Of living
Some Of have experienced, in camp life. per
haps the delight Of entering spacious room with
q great fireplace above which were ranged the
cleaning vessels. and watching the preparation
for the neal To which were invited. The feel
ings Of = guest under such circumstances are vast
y different. and the enjoyment vastly greater than
i he were ushered first into a drawing room. then
a dining room. where unseen hands had pre-
pared the formal dinner"
Mr.. Gulick spoke Of the saloon evil inevitable
until some other social centre is established for the
men who frequent ii. Society cannot obiterate
the social nature that for those people. finds its
only expression in the saloon. You give them
q place where they can talk politics and business
and come into the larger relationships Of life. with
out the liquor supply"
The speaker told his listeners that it Is
than foolish 10 attempt to get money from any
body before a meal People always better
naturei during after eating. The very best time
ask a favor during pleasant luncheon or
dinner"
He traced the evolution Of eating a social
function, and asserted that 1t was one of the
fundamental elements in the civilization Of so
ciety.
Miss Martha Van Rensselaer,. OF Cornell. talked
OF domestic IN rural districts and described
the Home Institute, held last winter at Lake
Placid The association she said. had right 70
be proud Of having started and conducted the first
home institute held in the United States. 1t
asked and received help from the State Depart
reut Of Agriculture and from Cornell University,
and the success Of the experiment was so pro
rounced that there is reason 10 hope that the
State may make 1t an annual affair for the benefit
OF farmers wives.
The institute lasted a week. and had two cook
ing classes every day with several evening meet
ings that attended by men and children also
Mrs Lillian Belts began her address on domestic
science in tenement houses by expressing her
hearty Endorsement of Professor Gulicks hope that
cooking may again become social grace. w ny.
she asserted A short time ago, l asked friend
10 luncheon with me and thought had lovely
e 5i tSe SaSg Kie6eH H door open and We talked as
worked. no time was wasted ana II was All
That afternoon friend in and Tv2I told her her
~ u a' 90 & oI bat man to luncheon and pre-
pare il yourself" ! told her that any IDIOT cou!u
hire service but it took brains TO render II one
self What have We come 10, when II IS lRousnt
disgraceful to give that truest hospitality o. one
women ask the workingmans wife 10 learn cook
Ing when they ashamed to do IL themselves.
When the women who stand at the Top SO
cally are proud their skill house keepers, the
working girls will soon learn 10 take pride In
IT, too
Miss A. p. Wadron told of the kitchen cooking
classes established by the association OF whlch
she is teacher She related several interesting IN
stances where men had been actually won from IN
temperate habits by the wfe's or sisters learning
% cook In the classes. IF goes to Work
from a breakfast Of bakers bread and poor coz
fee" she said how is he to resist the temptation
Of the clam chOwder or hot lunch free so
conspicuously displayed at every corner?
Miss Waldron said that the often expressed
their appreciation of the lessons. On one occasion
= man living in the house where a class was held
locked AZ the door ara, she opened II, asked,
,,oldirg out a plate of mullins Amt they all
righr2' She assured him that they perfect,
Ills wife was i'll in bed. but had told him how, and
ne could cook lot OF things fine from her direc-
The meeting was the hfth annual and was held in
ton Of the department Of domestic science OF the
Brooklyn Institute. Mrs John *. Dunn. first vice
president Of the association, is president of the
department The meeting called to order at
% 90 a. m. the morning session being devoted
tirely to business. At adjournment
luncheon had. In the afternoon at 2.S0 o'clock
the meeting was reconvened the session being an
open meeting.
The address Of welcome by Professor Franklin
hy response by Mrs. William G. Shailer. OF Man
haitian, president OF the association
The following officers elected President,
Mrs. William G. Shailer: vice presidents. Mrs John
Kendall Dunn and Mrs Thomas b. Reading. of
Buffalo: recording secretary. Mrs f. P. Teford:
corresponding secretary. Mrs Christian Hegeman:
treasurer. Mrs F. II. Lane and auditor, Mrs. Will
IAN G Gulntock, Of Warsaw.