The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-08
MEN JOIN COOKING SCHOOL.
Twelve Seek to Learn to Bake
Bread and Roast Meats.
From the Chicago Chronicle.


From the Chicago Chronicle.
Twelve men will bare their arms and
learn to knead bread when the Wom-
ans Domestic Guild opens it's cooking
school at the Northwestern Univer-
sity building, Lake and Dearborn
streets, next Monday morning.
The twelve men will have no inten-
ton of becoming professional chefs.
More than half will be single men who
have tired of boarding houses and res
taurants and who are anxious to take
Nat and prepare their own meals.
Several of the men will be the vic
TINS of the reversal of things. They
expect to care for the fiat and pre-
pare the meals while the wife goes
downtown and earns the livelihood.
The class will be the most interest
ing that has ever assembled at the
institution. Salesgirls, stenographers.
even chorus girls, will gather at the
university building on Monday. The
class will be under the supervision of
Miss Leah Jennings of Milwaukee.
Mrs. A. M. Wadsworth is the super
intendent Of the school.
Several of the applicants are men,"
she said yesterday afternoon. And it
will be the queerest lot of men that
you ever saw. The class will include
men who want to get positions as do
mestics. Then there will be men,
young single men, who want to take
a fiat and prepare their own meals.
Then there Will be married men, men
with wives and children, who want
to learn to cook that they may take
charge of the house while the wives
go downtown"
The course will be complete. First
will come the art of baking bread.
That will be- the lesson Monday MORN
ing. Then will come the preparation
of soups. OF course all food will be pre-
pared scientifically. Then will come
the art of broiling meats. Next will
come the salad course. Finally will
come the preparation of vegetables
and desserts.
Twelve lessons will be all that is
necessary to transform the most
awkward man into the most finished
cook" said Mrs. Wadsworth yester-
day afternoon. "A month after a man
enters the course he will be able to
take care Of a fat and have food as
pare"
There will be nothing theoretical
about the course that will be given the
men. A model kitchen has already
been constructed on the first floor of
the university building. There are
ranges, large and complete. There are
tables upon which stand measures and
scales.
"And when these men have gradual
ed you will not tremble with fear when
you eat their food" continued Mrs.
Wadsworth. 1.-THE art of serving and
what should be served will also be
Tho n no
with the meats will be indicated and
you can eat a large dinner prepared by
these men without fear Of suffering
later"
The men will compose a small part
of the class, however. The women who
enter must have the democratic spirit.
The mistress and the cook. the stenog-
rapher and the bride, the chorus girl
and the girl who some day expects
TO become a wife Will stand side BY
side
you know It partially solves the
servant problem" said Mrs. Wads-
worth. 1.-The trouble with many mis-
tresses is that they know nothing
about homework themselves and for
that reason they are not competent 70
manage servants. We win have WON
en- In our class who will never have "a
prepare a meal They are learning
that they may instruct their servants
and that they may know the faults OF
their domestics and 80 be IN a position
TO correct them.
THE cooking school win lessen dl.
vorces. The stenographers. for IN.
stance, spend their lives down town
They have no knowledge OF domestic
J life; they have never had the time Il
learn about A. They marry and are
ignorant IA the arts Of keeplng a hOme