New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-14

with me with Ice and cake on Sunday. But
can be serVed by tbg nepb9 elaborate or simple
II his is business well adapted for women. and
as they can keep their families together and make
COCO living. utilizing the help OF their children.
twelve families having central kitchen, they
helpers and boy to deliver they Could have Some
made bread and home cooked meals homemade
than they could have them at home. There Is a
fires and b1vna tb ktG6eni IN the ndiyual
saved IN the central Kitchens. A person cook
LOT WE'VE families about as easily for one, If
she understands her business and has the facili-
be central kitchen in every city l'i It Will be
The domestic me s happiness t GI me Anerioan rome
more difficult to handle every year. Nine-tenths
one. It is to this class the great middle Class Of
Americans that the central Kitchen would appeal.
1t is almost impossible to get a general servant
who is g good cook This is not strange. Sweeping
carrying coaa this is He IEIee
labor 1t can be learned and done by the raw i'm
into her Kitchen But Cooking S Rig6S S
the world. The health of the nation depends on it
woman who has the brains to make a good cock
for what the average housewife who keeps che
servant is able to pay She will not be servant
at all, unless in a wealthy family, or in some big
You cannot get a woman of education and re-
ton because of the loss of social position which it
involves 1t Is not the cooking they object TO- it Is
the stigma. l have seen women of high attain
ments teaching cooking schools. But they would
not enter family to COOK at ten times the salary
But such women could be managers of central
head to organize them They Would retain their so
cial position then. as they do now. They you'd
There would be no such trouble to get help in a
central kitchen as there is in a house The helpers
would live at home and come and leave at regular
hours like girls in any other employment. There
It is the loneliness of domestic service the separa
ton from their own people. the absence Of tndivid-
ual time that they can call their own. and the
everlasting social stigma. that keep smart girls
TO be reorganiZed and conducted the same
basis as any other. Then there will be just as
the Stores and factories And. eventually. as more
and more scientific study is put into cooking and
schools will turn their attention TO the business OF
"The difficulties of getting cooking done have
made the increase In boarding house life But the
! boarding house does not MI the want. no matter
children. All right minded married couples want
their own home matter how modest The
be IN is he IS not t
care Of 5he house With the help OF scrub
who now keeps one servant could do that for
viii do well enough for that under the mistress $
direction. 1t is tho cooking. and particularly the
luncheon with the man Of the house generally
| unching downtown; 1t is the dinner that bothers;
dinner every day. many housewife who Is now
/ at her wits ends to run her house with incom-
petent help could get along without any help
at all. an ~,
/ all. 1t is too expensive in the first place. am
talking OF people of moderate means, OF rich
/ people who don't need any help. If you live
! at restaurants you have got to pay your own
/ rent and you have got to pay your proportion Of
the restaurant mans rent besides, as well as the
! service and everything else that goes 10 keep
1 up the restaurant Then. while first class cafes
are fine. they cost abomnably and poor res
taurants are terrible The meats all taste alike.
! You wonder II they all cooked in the same
/ pan You wonder what the kitchen looks like.
/ The surroundings are unpleasant. the cooking is
! bad. And while in large cities usually
/ discover some place where he she eat In
comfort IN small cities. and especially in villages.
| where almost every lives in his own home.
! there Is little choice In eating places.
The central kitchen. with actual home cooking,
| IS the only thing 10 FIJI the want l would ike
TO see the women OF the country systematize
| their homework. have systematized their
| business. Our present methods Of housekeeping
| are the somo II every farmer hauled his own
crop to market. instead OF shipping 1t BY the rail
roads. Yet there is n psychological reason under
] Il. Every family wants its home, and so far
| way has been found to have II, except by
| doing the cooking I'm the house or going out TO
meals which isn't the same thing at all There
! is psychological effect gained oy, the family
gathered around It's family table which is
| lost in boarding houSe restaurant eating.