Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-07
BETTER HOMES SCHOOL
IS LARGELY ATTENDED
Mrs. Kate b. Vaughn Lectures on
Cooking Under Auspices of
The Times-DiSpatch.
SERIES LASTS ALL THIS WEEK
Cake Made at Cooking Demonstration
Is Won by Mrs. G. w. Shepherd, Of
Highland Park-Ricllmond- Made
Products Are Used.

Before n deeply Interested and very
| representative audience OF Richmond
women, assembled in the Masonic TEN
| pie Yesterday afternoon, Mrs. Kate b.
Vaughn. OF Nashville. Tenn. delivered
the first OF series of lectures OH cook
| Ing am! home making. Mrs Vaughn
has reen brought to Richmond under
the auspices of The Times Dispatch
and the lectures are open to the women
OF Richmond without charge
Tie lecturer by no means confines
herself to cooking lessons. though Il
truly fascinating demonstration in that
line follows every talk. Her lectures
cover the whole range of women's &C
home may he made better. brighter and
more efficient in every way.
AS Mrs. Vaughn remarked yesterday
afternoon:
a man is not expected to succeed In
business without some training or en-
2cr!ence In his chosen profession. Even
the butchers boy is apprcnticcd before
he can learn to cut the meat. But n
woman. just because she is Il woman. Is
expected. often without any training or
experience whatsoever, To take mat
same meat and by an intricate process.
the very thought of which would stag
ger almost any man. make IT into a
complex, appctizing, nourishinG food.
RUNNING SUCCESSFUL HOME
IS INTRICATE BUSINESS
People are now realizing that tho
woman's failure TO do this successfully
should not he met by scoldinS or scorn,
but Intelligent instruction. Running a
successful homo is one of the most in
t-icate and difficult businesses in the
world"
With this idea in mind, Mrs. Vaughn
has been secured by The Times Dis
patch to give series OF lectures THIS
week in Richmond to those women who
want to run their homes on the highest.
most efficient business plane. That the
plan was an instantaneous success was
overwhelmingly evident from the size
of the audience that greeted her on the
first day, in spite OF ii being hot day
and a holiday, and from the enthusiasm
shown.
The enthusiasm shown here and the
number of questions asked. said Mrs.
Vaughn yesterday, were particularly
noticeable for the first day
The crowds always get even bigger
during the week. as the first women
who have attended spread the news
among their friends Yesterdays au-
dience was particularly noticeable for
the number of prominent women il con-
tanned
Mrs. Vaughn's subject yesterday was
Efficient Home Making" and was fol-
lowed By A cooking demonstration the
whole occupying about two hours. inc
speaker was introduced by MY. hech-
ham. He said that. with all due rev
erence for things that mother used to
make there is still much TO learn ahont
the scientific preparation OF food ana
such knowledge is to be acquired in the
series Of lectures and demonstrations
arranged by The Times Dispatch.
HOW TO GET WORK DONE
WITHOUT UNDUE FATIGUE.
Though Mrs Vaughn had spent
strenuous morning getting everything
in readiness for the opening session
Of the better Foods-Better Home
school. she was at her best. one OF
the secrets she will impart TO the
women who attend her classes from
day 10 day will be how TO get a great
deal done without undue fatigue. she
spoke helptully on home conditions In
America and urged the women present
10 devote their energies to making
their home life the finest influence
their families could know. one sig
niacant statement in her talk was this:
The girl who is willing to go to
housekeeping without being prepared
is the one who degrades housekeep-
ing is the mother of children who
had better be unborn; is the wife OF
the man who becomes dissatisfied, So
cialstic and ends in the aimshouse.