The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-04-19

housewives, filled Robi-
I8lal son opera house at an
pines early hour this afternoon.
w. The occasion was the
opening of The Ardmoreite Home
Economics School, to be conducted
by Florence NJ. Peet, domestic science
and culinary expert. Miss Peet's
fame as a lecturer and cook have pre-
ceded her to Ardmore, and the pro
gressive women here who are inter
ested in up to date housekeeping
methods and cooking, were eager TO
hear her first lecture. Miss Peet was
much pleased with all the arrange
ments which have been made for her
lecture course here. She is most
enthusiastic about her work and no
thing pleases her better than to get
big crowd OF women together and
talk to them about housekeeping and
good cooking.
women are interested.
In discussing some of her plans for
the week and commenting on the
interest that has been manifested by
Ardmore women in the program sche-
duled for each afternoon, she said:
Il find that in spite Of the cry of the
calamity bowler who says women are
no longer interested in the home and
home cooking, that the majority OF
women are glad to hear me or anyone
else who comes to them with a mes
sage about good foods or anything
that will enable them to care more
easily and more efficiently for their
homes and families. Have you no
ticed what has interested women more
than anything else since the Euro
pean war began? If you will listen
when you find a group of them talk
ing together or if you watch wom-
an when she opens the newspaper in
the evening, you will not hear her
expressing her opinion as to the rel
ative strength of the various armies,
or reading, first thing, the war news.
1t is not that the women are not in
terested in big things of this kind.
They are. and many of them can dis
cuss the war situation as intellgently
as any man, but the thing they care
about just now is the price of sugar
And there is good and wise reason
for this. Women realize fully that
wars may come and wars may go,
but the question which goes on for
ever is, what shall people eat? We
must eat to be strong physically, men
tally and morally, and no question
is of greater Importance to the wom-
an who has a family to care for, than
how to feed her family in a nourish-
ing and enjoyable manner"
Big Night Session.
Miss Peet is planning a big meet
ing for tomorrow night. The women
of Ardmore are invited to bring their
husbands and sweethearts to this
evening session, and Miss Peet prom
ises to feed them all baked ice cream.
She assured an Ardmoreite reporter
this morning that this is not a joke,
however much il sounds like one. She
said: There is quite a demand just
now for foods that are both very hot
and very cold, and some cookery gen
ious has invented a simple and easy
method by which it is quite possible
to either fry or bake ice cream
have found baked ice cream quite
popular and shall therefore show Ard
more housewives how to prepare this,
on Tuesday night, and shall also serve
this dish and one or two others to
those who attend the Tuesday night
class"
At tomdrow's session of The Ard
moreite Home Economics School Miss
Peet will give talk on cake baking,
and will bake a California orange
cake. She will roast a chicken in
the fireless cooker. make some good
biscuit, and an interesting salad
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