East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-10-22
LOCAL YOUNG WOMAN
SUBJECT OF STORY
Miss Edith Slusher Cooked for Hun
CRY Men When Regular Cook Quit
job at Ranch.

A Pendleton girl. Miss Edith Slush-
er, daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. william
Slusher, 12l jefferson street, is made
the subject of a magazine article in
the Sunday Portland Oregonian by
Naomi Sweet, a special writer Under
the title of Society Girls Who Quail
fy as Houskeepers, Miss Slusher's
experience last summer when she act
ed as cook at her fathers Barnhart
ranch is taken as an example of the
fact that wealth and social position
do not always prevent girls from
learning the essentials of good house
keeping Along with those of a num-
ber of prominent Portland society
girls, the picture of Miss Slusher ap-
pears to illustrate the article.
The section of the article devoted
to the local young lady reads as fol-
lows:
There is a wealthy stockman at
Pendleton who runs a large ranch. At
the farmhouse there are IS men who
must be fed three times daily.
one day the past Summer a dispute
arose with the cook and the very in
dignant cook packed her things and
left without a moments notice.
Was there confusion and despair :?
Did the farm hands become rebellious
and threaten to strike If another cook
did not come at once? And how
could another cook be procured i'm
mediately out on farm in Eastern
Oregon, where there is no employ
ment bureau to phone to.
The stockman was William Slusher
known around Pendleton as Bill"
Slusher. Picture the scene of despair
The angry cook stamping off with her
bulging bags, confusion supreme in
the kitchen. Enter Edith, Mr.. Slush-
er's daughter, who has just returned
from Portland where she graduated
from a private school. Cody and
dantily she enters the kitchen and
wants to know the cause of all this
clustering confusion. she laughs
merrily, but father fails to see the
joke Edith quits laughing, but
smiles and quietly rolls up her sleeves
Clear out everybody" she COM
mands and from that moment took
supreme charge and reign of the kit
chen. Her power was absolute. AT
noon when IS big, hungry farm hands
trooped in for dinner they We're sur
prised with such a feast as they had
never before tasted The fair cook,
with her pretty face flushed and white
arms barred to the elbow, assisted in
serving the hungry IS.
g,
last but a day or two. 1t continued
for three weeks until another cook
came. She came down to strictly
business basis with her father, and
was paid 81 per day for her services.
The money was well earned for she
rose early, toiled all day and retired
late. And never will this hungry Is
forget those three weeks of epicurean
surprises
Many Girls Adept Cooks.
The girl of social proclivities rarely
gets credit for her accomplishments.
We mostly imagine her frivolous
creature who spends her life in one
whirl of social festivities The society
girls of the West are beautiful and
capable and there are any number of
daughters of the wealthiest families
in Portland who could easily do what
Edith Slusher did if the emergency
came. There are a great many girls
of this generation who know far more
about housework and domestic arts
than their mothers or grandmothers
did, in spite of those who wall
things are not as they used to be"