Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-19

j glad story of boy progress in Omaha High
school-how supplemental to routine text
IA book lore the awkward shambling youth of
early teens is vested with gentlemanly poise
and solderly mein. Dated comment has fixed well in
the public mind this optimistic status of boyhood,
wherefore the boys shall stand aside this time while
record is written of what the girls are doing
Philosophers have long agreed that through mans
stomach lies shortest to his heart, which is
merely another way saying that wholesome cooking
promotes digestion and the amabe disposition
consequent thereupon Accepting this a thoroughly
grounded trusm Omaha High school is moving for
home uplift by teaching the girls how to cook-not
only how to cook but how to cook scientifically and
with proper regard for household economics well
digestion Moreover, the girls being trained in
physical culture so that they may be strong and
healthy, well graceful. These departments of
high school education have been established long
enough that they have ceased to be looked upon
innovations, there is nothing in the telling
of the fact that the girls have such work in school,
There is, however glad interest in the results that
have been obtained from these departments.
In the old log school house days of this country
when the hickory lash and the three RS constituted
the curriculum prognosticator of culinary instruc
ton in future schools would have been catalogued
dreaming prophet, but the cooking school has
stay. 1t has been successfully tried in many places
and the may be said of physical culture Omaha
being always abreast of the onward march in worlds
work. among the first cities of the country to
combine cooking and athletics with high school in
structon.
So while the boys have their military training and
their annual encampments, the girls find diversion
from routine book study in the gymnasium and the
kitchen in the big school building Capitol hill
Perhaps, If you have not taken the time ac-
quaint yourself with details you puzzled how
cooking can be taught in school. You think of the
school house mere enclosure wherein range rows
OF desks for study, blackboard and a rostrum or
raised platform where sits the teacher, rod hand
That the school of yesteryears In the school
house" of today there is wide variety of apparat-
but that is another story Getting to the text in
the basement of the high school building in Omaha
basement of immaculate cleanliness too, by the way
there is cooking equipment beftting a big hotel.
Kitchenettes" is the diminutive employed by way Of
descriptive when the school folk talk. these kit
chenettes there twentyfour service at present
Under existing regulations 1870 girls daily lessons
Before larger number be successfully handled it
will be necessary TO have additional floor space Each
kitchenette is supplied with stove oven and utensils
TOO many cooks spoil the BROTH is an adage they
have heard and hearing, they heed. Wherefore each
girl is cook unto herself with the director of the de-
partment in general charge Miss Ada NJ. jerks who
came with cooking laurels from Ishpeming Mich a
year or ago. IN charge of the domestic science
classes during the school year closing Miss Neva
Turner, however, is chief authority on domestic
science she having been in direct charge OF instruction
up TO few months ago when It became necessary by