New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-06
COOKING SCHOOL ENTERTAINs.
Husbands of Pupils Partake of Toothsome
Dainties

It was the occasion of the graduating exercises
OF an East Side cooking school, and it
phatcally family affair. Class No. l con-
sisted OF working women, and Glass No 2 of young
girls who were in some instances the daughters
OF members OF Class No. !. The women had by
invitation. brought their husbands. and the latter
sat together at end of the rooms, consuming
cake and salad in silence. but with mastery cxecu-
ton The exercises consisted chiefly of the serving
or cake and salad. but these proved quite as
ceptabIe the reading of essays could have been.
certainly nobody made complaint. least of all the
husbands and fathers Of the graduates. The affair
look place in the big double parlors Of a house
where, in the daytime. the babies OF these women
are taken OF while their mothers go out to
work. More than one mother brought her baby
that evening. and Graded it in one arm while she
held plate coffee cup. knife and fork and few
other articles with the other hand.
Il have only criticism make" said one
visitor to another. under cover of the clatter OF
conversation. There are too many cakes and fancy
dishes. and there is almost simple. solid. mex
pensve food. I've often heard it said of the East
Side cooking schools that they impractical
Don't you remember. Mrs Stanton-Blatch spoke of
that when she in New-YOrk last winter in a
talk in which she compared much TO the detriment
OF the former. American methods with the Euro
pean in the conduct Of all kinds of manual training
schools including cooking schools. Really, what is
the good in teaching woman to make sponge cake
and angel food and in accustOmng her TO the use
of all kinds OF ngled modern cooking utensils
as they do in these schools-when in her home
she is probably confronted with the problem Of get
ting up a tasty meal out OF chuck steak and soup
greens, and when the kitchen furnishings Of that
home consist of half dozen pots and pans, and she
has a fork IN lieu of egg beatcr?"
II anybody on earth" said the other visitor.
spiritedly. deserves to possess every invention
that can make her work easier. It is the poor work.
ing woman. and hope these cooking schools will
teach all such women the value OF such inventions,
for that will hasten the time when they will de-
mand them in their homes as their right As
FOR teaching them 10 make cakes-well-pOor palates
crave dainties we'll as rich paates. Only how
those men over there gObbling the Ice cream
and macaIoors. It's better for these women, isn't
IT. TO know how to make healthful dainty now
and then in their kitchens than 1t is for them
10 spend all their spare pennies on the rubbish OF
the cheap bakeries. 50 many do. But this course
Of lessons includes solid dishes. too-but sten Mr..
Nh M-'s kindly gray head arose from behind
rampant of fruit dishes salad bowls. glass pitchers
and bread and butter plates which ghttered on tho
big table before him. and which he. as godfather
might 2 Vas Vas TO Slye out later as prizes ,,,
hair dozen appcaflors rom "di%s W who it'S want
10 hire cooks and are willing TO pay the best wages
from this school IL had to tel NON that All tho
looked around at the men folk Srnned sheep
ishly(, but know one graduate of last year-and
entered the ciass-who is now earning IS 4 week IN
There said visitor No > TO the critical visitor
III the teaching had been limited TO the manipula-
woman be earning s. week as an expert cook
MI III. having finished his talk gave out the
ranged SO that every member OF both classes got a
pI!z9 ioT soaethins or other. and they hed up to
naturally grave. but the girls We're SO overcome
10 the furthest end of the long parIors and devote
h nTzes tho 10 gssnF nG the betGwS od
wall DECORATIONS in an absent minded way. As q
IN company with their wives or daughters before.
and 10 see these wives and daughters thus thrust
fhrtwasts TO receive diplomas and glass pitchers.
Pardon me. said the Ethical visitor to a mild
faced, work worn German woman who sat near
h have" "'''' i ''''' S' On inc 'p'''"l you
Dat ISIS de names OF de dishes We haf learned
TO make in de course OF twenty lessons" the WON
d I9S an IN Garefn a EFT pffh & you Ike
courtesy these people always show to any guest
The critical visitor examined the list closely II
certainly included not only cakes and pies and pud-
dings, but meats stews and hashos. and all kinds
BY this time the food had nearly disappeared and
an air of social relaxation peryadcd the room.
The women gossped together while the young
sters lowered on the outskirts surrenttiousiy de-
youring the remnants n the cake Tho men. I'M
bending from the solcnnity Of the early evening.
were talking among thmsolves. but they and their
Ing acquainted with each other There was one
end Of the Of men sat a tall Austrian who
was really exceedingly handsome, To him had
walls. comfortable looking woman. bringing him
the very cream Of the tidbits the sideboard and
standing by with proud and beaming face while
he ate them.
He certainly has beautiful ewes" remarked a
visitor. He looks Ike poet can't fancy that
he's just plumber Il grocer"
''AS a matter OF fact he isn't" said tho cooking,
school teacher. He isn't anything. His wife sup
ports him"
The largo woman who just brought him his
NTH plate OF cake"
Yes"
oh! And the hOmely little next him. does
hts wife support him, too Which is his wife,
II at lively tho other end Of the
10. he u good ying-his wife doesn [
have TO work at all"
And she hasn't been him all the evening"
unused the visitor who happened 10 be OF n cynical
turn. while the idle has been surfeited with
dainties by his frau. Well now isn't that human? '