The Washington herald., 1913-02-11
Stage Model Kitchen.

The stage kitchen was certainly good
| to look upon There was a fine gas
range in place. as a first prize in the
| cooking contest. The range will be used
| during the weeks lessons. and will then
| go to the most successful OF the COM
petitors.
Just close to the gas range, always
within easy reach OF Mrs. Ruggles' hand.
was the kitchen cabinet, and not far
away was the refrigerator. Placed in
| orderly and handy fashion on the lonS
tables were the cooking utensils, and the
food was prepared at a small table in
full view of the whole. audience
There was hardly an eye turned from
the deft hands of the lecturer during the
afternoon The lesson went thoroughly
into the inside pockets OF such questions
| as correct measurements, correct uten-
sfls. and correct timing of cooking.
Each article came from the stove look
Ing more. delicious than the last. and
! there couldn't have been a woman In all
| the vast crowd who did not go home
with some suggestions which will mean
a revolution in her culinary department
The week is to be filled to the brfm
with attractive surprises, and none can
anord to miss single one Of the lecture
demonstrations.
II by any chance you were not on hand
yesterday, come to-day, and you will
have to give yourself a terribly good
excuse before you will be willing to
miss another lecture.
No woman who sat through the after
noon and saw the dispatch and the neat
ness and sampled the goodness of the
nnlshed article could go home without
feeiing that cooking Is not the tfresorne
bore which she had sometimes thought n.
The kitchen cabinet demonstrated that
no woman needs to walk a mile back and
forth across her kitchen to cook a din
ner. N''
The pupils had not been long in their
seats before they discovered they were
not there to learn only the preparation
OF few specific dishes, not alone how
to cook. but to learn that broader and
deeper science of household economy.
Winning Personality.
Mrs. Ruggles Is an attractive woman.
and she makes every detail of her work
an interesting personal matter. She 4,
good talker, quick to see the point of
subject, and apt in her explanations.
She has a cordial way about her and
quickly wins the friendship of the MEM
bers Of her school. The women like
her. and will enjoy the sessions with her
during the week.
In her introduction she said: IF I
seem at times to go too much into de-
tail. remember that some apparently
trivial detail may be the saving grace OF
the woman sitting next to you"
Mrs. Ruggles' voice does not seem par
ticularly loud, nor yet especially pene-
trating, yet II was heard with ease In
every corner Of the big hall. 1t is al
most misleading to say that she gave
a lecture, for this. implies a certain
formality. whereas her remarks were de-
lightfully informal and intimate. Just as
though the audience had wandered into
her own private kitchen and she was
giving them a few points. All the time
she talked she worked. her deft fingers
busy with the ingredients on a long
table, which she nodded into the daintiest
and most tempting dishes imaginable,
dishes to literally make the mouth water
little later when they came, hot and
steaming, from the range.
In her brief Introduction, Mrs. Ruggies
brought out the salient fact underlying