The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-03-22
DISTINGUISHED DELEC STVON

committee or delegation charged with
some public service. This week if has
been honored by visits from the bust
hess agents and officers Of the Farm
efs Union. They were for
TIC peS' work OF cooperation among
FARMERS, and We're gladly Welcomed.
yesterday, however, Raleigh had
The privilege Of Welcoming a deIeea-
'lon OF eighteen lovely school girls
from Holly Springs, who. With their
teacher, Miss Ethel Kelly, paid a. visit
to the Cooking Department of the
italelsh High school. This was no or
oifaf% school class, but, beloved, it
was the class in Domestic Science.
and these Wake girls are learning to
cook as Well as to parse and translate.
1i1at Why the Mayor Of Raleigh and
inc county superintendent of Schools
and the Secretary Of the Chamber OF
commerce met them at the depot and
received them With all honor, gave
them the freedom of the city, escorted
them to the High Schools cooking
department, and afterwards they were
entertained at luncheon, and returned
nome IN the afternoon, having won
the hearts Of Raleigh people.
All knowledge is to be desired and
to be impaired. We have no quarrel
with the ologies and the rs and the
like that teachers try to hammer
into the heads of the Young. I'm
doubtcdly they serve Il good purpose
in mind training. but there Is no in
struction that reaches the heart-tand
stomach, too, We might add)-so Iii
rectly AS the practical instruction in
the necessary art Of cooking. How
many men have gone to untinlely
graves because their wives did not
know how to cook, and how many
nave had misery" FROM poorly cook
ed food IT is all very nell to draw
and paint and play Il scan the heav-
ms provided You have enjoyed u well
cooked meal, but who can enjoy
Come Back to Me, Douglass If his
coffee had drcgs and his biscuit were
'Sobby' or do YOU spell it "sogsy? 2"
S~tar-sazin4 with your girl is heavenly,
but il, after You marry her, she can
not bake good biscuits, what to YOU
are al the consultations and the
glory of the sta dimmed vaults OF
heaven?
The Holly Springs school trustees
and teachers are setting the pace for
all schools-tcaching the girls how to
( cook. Tho way 10 a mans heart il
through his stomach" has long been
Il homely and material adage that has
more truth than poetry in it. Certain
" the man who has been given dys-
pepsia from bad cooking is apt tc
locate the pain in his heart and ii
Will cease to beat fondly for the wife
whose bad cooking has caused love
TO grow cold. Give us good cooks to
go with good looks and taxpayers
viii not object to the tax for public
schools. Health is the chief asset OF
man, and without good cooking he
cannot enjoy good health and annot
work effectively. 1T is as true today
as when it was written that
we NAV live without poetry, music
and art;
We NAV live without conscience, allc
live without heart;
We may live without friends: We may
live without oolS;
But civilized man cannot live without
cooks.
Holly Springs girls are learning to
cook. Raleigh was glad to give them
welcome and unless the Raleigh girls
become experts III the art of cooking,
Raleigh young men will begin to turn
toward Holly Springs when they are
looking for wives, for the conely
maidens of that village have Good
looks and their seeking after kno"l-
ed &c shows clearly That they are go
inc to be good cooks.