The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-11-07
THEY MAKE GOOD BREAD.
Yet They Are Learned Girls, and Ones
a South carolinian.

Yet They Are Learned Girls, and Ones
South Carolinian.
At last a college girl has been put to
practical use. Or, to be exact, she has
put herself to practical use. For
generations the world at large has look
ed at her askance. 1t has said, ''She is
interesting; sometimes she is even
pretty; but what earthly use is she?''
Notwithstanding this interrogative
curiosity she has fourished and null
| tiplied exceedingly throughout all the
land. And at last she has answered the
queries.
| Three of her have established them
selves at Cambridge, Mass, and thence
they supply Boston, and few favored
families in less favored localitiesWith
bread; not such as mother used to
make, but such as mother should have
made, but didn't know how; bread
which represents the chemical and
scientific perfection of the noble art of
bread making. Two establishments
at Brookline are laundering Boston's
purple and fine. linen, as 1t never has
been laundered before; laundering the
purple so that 1t doesn't all come out
in the wash and the fine linen so that
| 1t don't go in garment to come out a
rag. The three represent Radcliffe Col
lege, sometimes known as Harvard An
mex. the two are Smith College girls.
Each establishment is striving for
and attaining perfection in its own
lines. Each is bringing all that chem
istry and science and trained intelli-
gence can bring to the attainment of
this perfection. Both have proved that
the public is willing to pay for per-
lection, And between them they are
vindicating the higher education Of
woman and proving the practical utility
of book larnin' in the everyday
affairs of the world. For than baking
bread and washing clothes nothing Is
more severely practical, nothing more
decidedly every day. nothing more
strictly within the most conservative
estimate Of "womar's sphere"
The bakery, known as the Samore
Bread Laboratory, was opened about a
! year ago, in the Young Mems Christian
/ Association building, just about oppo-
site the City Hall Of the historic town
of Cambridge. 1t was an enterprise In
which North and South came together
for the conquest Of Boston. 1t was es-
tablished by Miss Bertha Stevenson OF
South Carolina and Miss Frances Elliot
Of Toronto. They had met as special
students at Radcliffe, where both were
taking post graduate courses. Miss
Stevenson being a graduate of Con-
verse College inaher native state, and
Miss Elliot having graduated from
the University of Toronto. These two
girls put their heads together and de-
cided that the world needed more bread
and better bread. Miss Stevenson had
Thought out a model laboratory bake
ry: Miss Elliott was wiling to make
the experiment with her. And so the
"samore Laboratory" came in exist.
enee s." .s.=~
At first it occupied modest quarters
in a side street. Miss Stevenson an6
Miss Elliot were their own bakers and
their own book-keepers, and theil
own statesmen and even their own deli
very men, in so far as they delivered al
all. Inside of three months these bake
women found that they had than PAID
their expenses. They moved in to more
commodious quarters centrally located
To-day they have quite plant" They
employ between thirty-five and forty
people. They have their regular deli.
very wagons. They send bread, If moi
to the uttermost parts of the earth, al
lleast to- good many states in tbs
Union from Maine to Carolinas. They
run well patronized lunch room in the
heart of Boston and are gradually
branching out into catering in small
way. Miss Elliott has taken a year off
and is pursuing her chemical studies
still further at the Columbia University
in this city, and Miss Mcclellan, another
Canadian college girl, has Joined the
firm and is taking Miss Elliott's place in
the active management of the affairs.
Times certainly have changed when a
college bred Southern girl will initiate
such an enterprise. A college bred
Southern girl is ansanomaly, any how
One might expect the Southern girl tc
make good bread, but one would ex.
pect her to mix it, as the Southern
nanny does all her most delectable
receipts-"with judgment. Honey,
rather than with science. Yet this
"samore Bread Laboratory" which is
the realization of a dream of Miss
stevensons. is making the only bread
that the Department of Chemistry a.
Washington has ever analysed and
y found free of yeast when done. 1t is
making a bread which Mrs. William
Dean, Howells claims saved her life-s
! bread of, which every ingredient has
been chemically analysed and tested, I
q bread every process Of whose making il