Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-14
A COLLEGE FOR BRIDES.
Philadelphia's Newest Institn- ton of Feminine Learning.
TEAoHEs ART OF PLEASING MEN

muIgated by the InstructresS-stFeed
 Your Husband substantiaI1y'' the
 First-COurses In Marketing, Cook
 ing and House Furnishing.
 Brides trained here'' might well be the inscription on the shingle of new institute of learning at Logan, fashionable suburb of Philadelphia, says a correspondent of the Chicago Tribune.
 There are twenty-three students in class presided over by Miss Bthel Hen drickson The whole course Is ground ed upon the idea that the man is the whole thing"
 At the beginning of the term girls start their notebooks with fourteen headings, leaving blank spaces for comment and elaboration of the main ideas A glimpse at the headings is enough to make eligible bachelors want to rush to Philadelphia on chance of annexing graduate of the school for brides, one who can show her degree of "M. H."-model helpmate.
 Here's a brides duty as outlined in
  ress:
 Be cheerful.
 Practice repose.
 Feed him substantially.
 Train your servants well.
 Spend money prudently.
 Keep the home bright and conf Drtable.
 Keep little household worries to your self
 Be ready always for the unexpected friend.
 Divide your time between baby and hus- band.
 pleasure.
 Take pains to be an entertaining, cheer ful and interested companion.
 Be as careful in your attire and as anx- ious to please as before marriage.
 Encourage your husband to spend at least one night a week at the club or with the boys
 Encourage him to bring his friends home and have at least one mans room where he can entertain with perfect free dom.
 1t is all done on practical basis. "Feed him substantially is the first edict. Students are taught that this doesn't mean anything like stuf1ng a husband with fearfully and elaborately constructed dishes that would puzzle a French maitre de cuisine. 1t means that they are to find out what he likes best and have it cooked in fashion. Make him forget that mother ever knew the rudiments of the culinary art.
 The process begins in marketing. Girls are taught how to choose the best cuts of meat, how to select proper fowl and how to distinguish fresh vegetables from those in rum mage sale condition of usefulness, and they learn to market without draining the pocketbook. They are taught that enough for two' does not mean a supply for a regiment, and they are coached in those details lack of knowl- edge of which makes the average young bride m easy mark for shrewd tradesman and keeps the garbage pail better stocked than the pantry.
 Having mastered marketing, the prospective bride sets to work making meals. Supplies in every detail are taken up in routine until the pupil has mastered the entire cooking and serv- ing of full course dinner, even into brewing a favorite punch.
 Chafing dish cookery is another branch of instruction practiced until the proud girl with the I'M. H" diplo- ma is veritable wizard with the alco- hol flame apparatus. There is no beg ging the question or cheating the cen sor, for every girl has to eat of her tri- umphs and failures. Worse still, all the other girls in the class partake of them, and criticism is unrestrained. The newcomer gets some hazing on this account, but the girls are all jolly and much in earnest generally, so no discord is engendered.
 Perhaps the most trying ordeal in the culinary course is one of the 'open nights, when the big brothers and fla thers "and perhaps others are invited to partake of the products" Criticism is barred on these occasions, but the rule isn't necessary.
 Room arranging and decorating is practiced and reduced to science. The furniture is arranged and placed for various effects. Hangings are re hung and cushions are disposed of to get the best results in comfort and ap- pearance. Girls are taught the magic of the skilled and artistic touch in so slight matter as the placing of q chair or a table. Extremes are taught from the rigid primness of Puritan room to the luxurious pilfng, color and spIendor in an oriental apartment. Tho instructors purpose is to give full scope to the individual tastes of pupils in. these matters, but to develop them l in accordance with standards. Furnishing house from top to bot l tom is one of the practical lessons that come under the head, and students are required in theory to buy every article of equipment from nutmeg grater to q l grand piano and to decorate various l rooms in the house and to fit them with all appurtenances ready for i'm I mediate occupancy.
 Taken all in all, the girl with an | 'M. H." deservedly won is decidedly l to be coveted The worst part is that 1 they are not eligible to school unti they have been courted and won ol l during the early stages of the honey 1 moon, while yet groping in the maze |