The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-26
THE COLLEGE GIRLS BREAD.
BY the Aid of Science 1t Is a Big Sue.
cess.

Brooklyn Eagle.
At last the 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 looked 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 fiourished and multiplied exceeding
ly throughout all the land. And at last she
has answered the queries.
Three of her have established themselves
at Cambridge, Mass, and thence they sup
ply Boston and a few favored families in
less favored localities-with bread; not such
as mother used to make, but such as moth
er should have made but didn't know how;
bread which represents the chemical and
scientific perfection of the noble art Of bread
making. Two OF her established at Brook
line are laundering Bostons purple and fine
linen, as 1t never has been Numbered be-
fore; laundering the purple so that 1T doesn't
all come out in the wash and the fine linen
so that it go not in a garment to come out a
rag The three represent Radcliffe College,
sometimes known as Harvard Annex, the
two are Smith College girls.
Each establishment is striving for and at
tanning perfection on its own lines. Each is
bringing all that chemistry and science and
trained intelligence can bring to the attain
ment of this perfection. Both have proved
that the public is willing to pay for perfec-
ton. And between them they are yindicat-
ing 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 esti-
mate of "woman's sphere"
The bakery known the Samore Bread
Laboratory, was opened about year ago,
in the Young Mems Christian Association
of the historic town of Cambridge. 1t was an
enterprise in which North and South came
together for the conquest of Boston. 1t was
established by Miss Bertha Stevenson, of
South Carolina, and Miss Frances Elliott, of
Toronto. They had met as special students
at Radcliffe, where both were taking post
graduate courses. Miss Stevenson being a
graduate OF Converse College. in her native
State, and Miss Elliott having graduated
from the University of Toronto. These two
girls put their heads together and decided
that the world needed more bread and bet
ter bread. Miss Stevenson had thought out a
model laboratory bakery; Miss Elliott was
willing to make the experiment with her.
And so the "Samore Laboratory" came into
existence.
At first it occupied modest quarters in a
side street. Miss Stevenson and Miss Elliott
were their own bakers and their own book
keepers. and their own statesmen and exc
their own delivery men, in so far as they
delivered at all. Inside of three months
these bake women found that they had more
than paid their expenses. They moved into
more commodious quarters centrally located.
To-day they have quite plant" They en-
ploy between thirty-five and forty people.
They have their regular delivery wagons.
parts of the earth, at least to a good many
States in the Union, from Maine TO the
Carolinas- They run a well patroniZed lunch
room in the heart OF Boston and are gradu-
ally branching out into catering In a 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
its affairs.
Times certainly have changed when a coll
lege-bred Southern girl Will initiate such an
enterprise. A college-bred Southern girl is
an anomaly, any how. One might expect the
Southern girl TO make good bread, but one
would expect her TO mix ii, as the Southern
nanny does all her most detachable re-
ceipts-"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 Chemis-
try at Washington has ever analysed and
ing a bread which Mrs. William Dean How
ellis claimed saved her life-a bread of which
every ingredient has been chemically ana
lyzed and tested. bread every process Of
whose making Is scientific from sitting 70
baking.
The fittings and furniture Of their Cam
bridge salesroOms are expressive of the
| character of the enterprise and of the pro-
| prietors. They are of the approved Morris
| style-which does not mean what the furni-
| ture dealers are pleased to call Morris
| chairs, with monstrosities In the way OF
| gaudy plush-covered cushions. The furniture
| Is OF the handmade order. simple In line