The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-16
COMMENTS CULLFr FROM
 PAPERS HERE AND IHE&E
sperience knows

sensica ssperience knows that his d a cook as any body. whe -riyen to it, and the experience O male guests in a south side family he .el during the recent strike is only a fresh demonstration of the fact that the average American woman, though removed from the necessity of cooking ordinarily, is entirely competent to prepare meal when circumstances make 1t necessary for her to go into the kitchen.
 In this instance the cooks and walters struck just at meal time. The male guests were hungry, as male guests al- ways are. and irritable, as they usually are, when meal time comes without the meal. But their wives, though hungry also. were unselfish as usual, and rather than witness the suferings of their hus- bands they entered the great kitchen of the great family hotel
 As If by common instinct, all made for the egg box. Heaven has seldom been kinder than 1t was when it gave humanity eggs If there are eggs in the house nobody need go hungry. If there are eggs In the kitchen no woman is at loss for the means of preparing meal Naturally all the wives made for the egg box, and, thanks to the fact that hens are not unionized. the supply of eggs in the hotel egg box was ample.
 It was then that the wives proved how competent they were to prepare meals for their husbands. No sooner had they found the eggs than by one accord they made for the range and in less time al- most than 1t takes t1 tell it, they were prepared to lay before their husbands a meal which was entirely satisfactory.
 Where there were so many competent wives, there naturally was great di- versity of cooking, and perhaps the menu card of the hotel never contained a more inviting list of appetizing dishes. As re- ported from IF e--arv it ran:
 The other evening in a smart restau- rant of New York a well-known prima donna called the attention of the diners at her table to the pandemonium of shriu feminine voices all about them The high pitched, almost shreking tones. were wraclSing both to the nerves and the ears.
 Nothing is more disagreeable than a grating feminine voice, and nothing is more pleasing than soft. musical tones. A metropolitan daily has the following to say on the subject:
 Fortunately the American girl has not been left in ignorance of the way in which she can acquire such gracious voice that "a little more champagne please" will sound like Juno ordering another glass of nectar in a voice which makes heaven "drowsy with the har- mony." The ubiquitous reporter was pres- ent and treasured up the prima donna's directions for acquiring this gracious voice. Let the American girl whose shrill head tones are heard above the babel at Martins at midnight, informing all the hungry jewellers of her personal opin- Ions, experiences and adventures. stand squarely before her glass;" infiate her lungs and then sound double O. (ooJ as the lungs are emptied, but in rich, low tones"
 The aversion of the average pretty girl, whether with the low, sweet voice or the shrll headtones, to standing before the glass-mirror, we mean, not the glass that circulates at after-theatre suppers- must be conquered. That is indispensable. Having overcome this reluctance the rest is easy snd may be varied in many de- lightful Ways. For instance, the Wash ington Heights belle may now be able to utilize the eternal vibration of the air in that picturesque locality by the strains of MT. Dooley Let her stand before her glass-this must be insisted upon and then to the musical vibration of the air softly, slowly and sweetly repeat MT. Dooley-ooley- -ooley-oo-oo," etc, as long as the inhaled air holds out, and then thank the reporter and the prima donna for the mellifluous voice she will soon possess.