The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-15
PHILADELPHIA WOMEN
After Jenkin Jones Who Says They
Don't Know How to Cook.

Philadelphia, Jan. 15.-These days
Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, of Chicago.
who says that domestic troubles are due
IN great measure to the fact that
wives do not know how to cook, is get
ting himself Strenuously disliked by the
feminine population. He suggests thas
the way to eternal peace is through the
stomach. and that what is reeded mOSl
in the education of woman is training
in the culinary art. At present he COM
plains that the girl graduate is as
ignorant of the cook stove as man is
of the knitting needle.
These allegations have brought down
the wrath Of women from all parts of
the country on the reverend gentle
mans head. protesting that he doesn't
know his business and that they can
cook meals good enough for any man
with the average digestion As to Mr..
Jones paraphrase of BulWer's line, The
pen is mightier than the sword" to
The broom is mightier than the piano. =
the girls claim that it all depends upon
the muscle of the woman.
A graduate of the Girls Normal
school, of Philadelphia. said: Il am sur
prised at Mr. Jones. l thought he kept
abreast of the times I am keeping
house now myself. and l have found
the patent sweeper is mightier than the
broom. Why, l can play the piano with
my right hand and run the sweeper
with my left: and as for cooking. I'm
training my husband now so that he
gives me day out and does the cooking
himself on Thursdays"
Philadelphia girls say they don't want
Mr.. Jones old cooking school-they'v We
got one anyway out at the Drexel Ill
stitute. and that their mothers can
teach them more about cooking in a
minute than Mr. Jones could in y
month.
A newly married young society woman
OF this city when asked what she thought
of Mr.. Jones accusations, said. HE does
not know what he's talking about. I
suppose there are some girls who don't
know how to cook, but they are the few.
Most every girl IS born with the instinct
for that sort of thing. just as she is with
the maternal instinct / don't claim to
be great cook myself but / 20 every
day to my kitchen to see how things are
going, and sometimes to make cake and
fancy desserts. There have been times,
too when [ have cooked whole meals.
when the cook has suddenly taken it into
her mind to leave without notice. The
arithmetic and geography will never learn
it isn't in them. The only thing /
/ agree with Mr.. Jones in IS that it is as
much the office of woman to be able to
cook-nore so. in fact. than it is to plav
the piano. And as for Browning, | think
that's good enough to take the time Of
old maids. who have neither home nor
x well known clergyman. in speaking on
with Mr. Jones. I think the tendency OF
the young woman Of today is to seek
/ after what they call higher things which
/ after all. is only an excuse to slight the
+ real things that go to make up q home
+ What we admire most in woman is hel
4 femininity. That a woman should be-
4 able to play or sing adds a great charm
/ to her. and that she should be able T.
f discuss the poets or such things as sociol.
ogy and kindred topics is not to be sneeree
i at. hut before this she should be 9
Il good housekeeper-I think the word home
j keeper better-which embraces the knowl
edge Of all those genuer arts which are
especially a woman's field and insure tbs
/ admiration of men far more than ethic.
and poetry and make the home the mos
attractive spot or earth for the husband
/ i am perhaps little old fashioned in my
/ belief as the world goes now. but I hav.
seen in long experience that the art o
/ housekeeping is the surest title TO the nap
piness of man and WIFE,