Arizona republican., 1906-02-21
SITE FOR A HOME
 FOR WOMAN'S CLUB
Mrs. Heard Gives a Lot at Second and
 Van Buren streets.

Mrs. Dwight B. Heard yesterday gave the Womans club of Phoenix lot to
 be used should the club decide to erect
 a building for it's home. The prop
 erty is located at the southwest cor
 her of Second street and Van Buren
 and has a frontage of fifty feet on Van
 Buren and 1S7 1-2 feet on Second street. The lot was purchased by Mrs. | Heard's agents some time ago but the | first intimatiOn any member of the l club had of the generous act was at
 a luncheon given the board of direc- | tors of the club by Mrs. Heard last | Friday. The board at that time very naturally accepted the gift and yes terday by a unanimous vote of the whole club the gift was again accept | ed and vote of thanks given to the donor. The lot will remain in the name of Mrs. Heard until the club Is ready to build, that the lot may in no way be an expense to the club until | it is needed.
 Very naturally the talk at the meet ing turned to the club building and the possibility of one being secured. The discussion led to prompt action and very soon a resolution was offered concerning the giving of donations to | from the seventy members who were present in a remarkable short time $114 was raised. This will be added
 to in various ways by the club during
 the gear.
 The meeting yesterday was under the direction of the department of household economies, Mrs Edward Ceilings, chairman. The president,
 Miss Elizabeth Kendrick, opened the session with some touching remarks on the loss sustained by the club in
 the recent death of Prof. A J. Mc- Clatchie, whose sympathy and advice
 were so helpful to the organization in It's beginning. Mrs. B. V. Cushman followed with appropriate resolutions, which were unanimously adopted. An address was delivered by Mss COburn, formerly professor in the Bradley Polytechnic Institute, at Peoria, H., and later a teacher in the Iowa State Agricultural college. Tho lady, who is a pleasant speaker, had the closest attention of her auditors She related her experience with the "fuelless cooker" Although, by com mon consent, the culinary department of the home belongs to woman, she is largely indebted to man for discovery and improvement in the preparation
 of food. and to his inventive genius for that wonderful. though simple, mech anism by which the dinner cooks it. self while madam slumbers repose- fully, or attends the club.
 Directions were given for the con struction of the cooking box; the kind
 of utensils best adapted to hold the
 food; the manner of cooking it in all of its Varieties-cereals, fruits and meats--which gives the best results by this method
 Some interesting local testimony was
 furnished by Mrs. J. M. Swetnam, who Is the fortunate pOssessor of one of these cooking boxes. She has been very successful in it's use, pr. Swet- nam pronouncing the finished products
 equal to. if not surpassing, his moth CTS cooking"
 The further exercises of the after noon were a revelation to any one who might question the practical features of club work. The demonstration
 which followed was unique and in
 structive and vastly more convincing than theory could be in it's most plaus- ible presentation.
 Under Miss Coburn's direction, Mrs. Ceilings made use of a trunk in place of the regulation box. On Monday a tenpound roast of beef and dish of
 fruit, both having been boiled about half an hour, were placed in suitable
 vessels and set In the trunk, the space around them being well packed with
 wool. The trunk was closely covered and remained so for twenty -four hours.
 The food was then lifted out. steam Ing hot, and exhibited to the club. The meat was carved and served in sand
 wiches with hot coffee, to the seventy
 nine ladies present. It was pronounc-