The Washington herald., 1915-02-19
By MARY MARSHALL.

Not SO very many years ago people
| thought that about all young girl
| could learn OF cooking could be taught
her in the home kitchen. As a special
attainment. this or that young woman
| occa sionally went to professional
| French chef for instructions in the
myserties of puff pastries and other
| delicacies that were not usually pro-
duced at home. This was the high
water mark of expert cookery as our
mothers knew it. Cookery in those
days was a matter of knack and eX-
perience.
But now schools Of domestic science.
household management. scientific
cookery, dietetics, or whatever you
choose to call the new science Of cook
inS.-have sprung up all over the coun-
try. Millions of dollars have been
freely given by rich men for the en-
dowment of such schools and for the
esta blishment of similar departments
in schools already in existence. The
movement has spread to the public
schools and private schools. II is a
prominent feature of institutional
churches and clubs. Scientific cooking
has come with vengeance, and 1t
has come to stay.
Under these new conditions your
daughter can now go away to school
with knowledge of cooking limited
to fudge making and come back able
to give her mother points on cooking
and household management She can
show her mother how to make the
a third less cost.
1t is one of the professions still
growing rapidly. and every year call
ing for more capable women than are
ready to meet the demands.
The demands for women trained in
scientific cookery are of three kinds.
One demand Is for college gradu-
ates who. besides their academic de-
gree. have taken a more or less COM
plete course in scientific cookery or
d'etetics. Women qualifying under this
head are in demand for positions as
professors and instructors in nutri-
ton, household chemistry. cooking,
etc. in schools and colleges. The sal
airy for such positions ranges from
eight hundred to fifteen hundred dol
lars a year.
A second class of women needed In
this profession are those who are ex-
perienced in teaching or graduated
from normal schools. who. either as
part of the normal school training or
as an aside. have mastered the prob
lens of scientific cookery and its al
lied branches. For these women there
are positions open. through teachers
agencies or through direct application
to boards of educatio as teachers in
public and private schools and in in
dustrial schools with salaries from
eight to twelve hundred dollars
year. From a position In the public
schools of a large city woman of
ability can rise to a supervisorship at
from one thousand dollars to eighteen
hundred dollars year.
But by far the largest demand Is
for women who. although they need
not have graduated from college or
normal school and need never have
taught a day in their lives. have had.
besides a more or less extensive
course in scientific cookery. consider
able experience in household manage
ment or actual business experience.
For all these three groups Of women
there are numerous positions, besides
those already mentioned as being special
ly available for each class. standing open
today Settlement and social workers
are wanted In the crowded city districts
to show the poor how to live cheaply-
how to buy their food. what to buy. how
TO cook it. and how. to serve II. Model
flats are carried on in certain of these
social centers. where a woman trained
in scientific cookery teaches the coming
generation how to do the tasks of house,
keeping In the easiest. cleanest, and most
manner. Positions Of this
sort bring with them salary Of from