The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-01-04

but most of 1t. I admit, is drudgery.
and should be performed by servants.
In this category l include running a
sewing machine. washing and ironing,
scruDblng, sweeping, busting, making
tbe beds, etc. None of this work is
pleasant and much of 1t is positively
injurious.
one would wish ones womankind
to know very thoroughly how these
things should be done, and to be able
TO see that some one else does them.
hut cookery is the browning accom-
%p paSi hoi OF the good housewife. h
Wen being of the entire family depends
on it, %ethically and economically. as
Vel as Observation-Disclosures, because
the state of the human mind and tenn
per, is so dependent on the state of
me human body; economically, because
.ne eook who knows how a set a
iauch better table-more palatable and
more nutritious, ON the same amount
OF money-than the woman who
doesn't.
Every woman should be able to SUI
pervlse her household. This is especially
so OF cooking, which i regard as one
of the highest arts. In my Judgment.
it ranks above painting. 1t appeals to-
lhe imagination. And it certainly does
more for the happiness of the human
race than all the other arts put to-
getler.
lou may gamer that l am very
much interested in cookery. | anal
Ways have been-am a pretty GOOD cook
myself. have often said that if I
We're beginning life over again. and had
10 make my choice of occupations.
would choose to be a chef-both for
love of it. and for the money there is
in it. .
AS a good chef-and 1 would he q
good one-I could make a lot more
money than as merely the chief of
uncle SANS bureau of chemistry. And
the artistic pleasure of it, For cook
ils at Its best is a fine art, While chem
istry is only an exact scierce-at least
it ought to be. but I'm afraid there are
times when it is not.
linen compare the results! Don't
you think that a thorough knowledge
OF the theory and practice of cookery
would add considerably more to the
nlll OF human happiness thar any
70? And certainly it would go farther
IMAM any one other thing toward abat-
in- the divorce evil.
Apply chemistry to cookingo Oh
yes, to a certain extent: Just as. TO a
certain extent, one applies cooking to
course, to know exactly what effect
the various cooking processes have on
the various foodstuffs. 1t is a good
thing, too, to know the nutritiye val1le
OF various foods. 1t is a good thing to
know OF the chemical composition of
loods' that the elements may be sup
phed In approximately the quantities
III which they are required. But one
can be a very good cook without beinp
a very scieltific chemist: and one can
be a very scientific chemist without be-
ing at all an artistic cook.
Mother the Best Teacher.
.Cooking schools are a very poor sub
stltute for the kitchen and the house
hold of a really good ~housekeeper. They
aeai 100 entirely with theory, n cook
is above all things a practical art.
on, l know. of course, that the girls
go to the looking schools have ac-
tually to cook. But that is lust once.
is doing it every day, under different
circumstances meeting different little
that makes the really good
cook. Cooking schools are a whole LOT
better than nothing, but thew are a
whole lot worse than the home training
which our g~randmothers gave our
mothers.
by which I do not mean to saw that
every woman should pare Vegetables
and dress fowls, and bake the bread for
Ically know how, and 80 be able to SUI
pervise those whose business it is to
it for her. 1t depends on circ,,m-
stances as to how much cooking a wom-
should do. No woman is too rich
% understand and practice the culinary
art; And a woman who is a really good
is a long way on the road to heinz
| really good housekeeper.
TO a really good housekeeper. the
servant problem is not such a buehear
She can get along without servants e.
he has to. And she is generally able
o keep servants when she gets them.
II to train new ones when she Is OBJ