The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-25

Cooking as one of the fine arts may
be practiced in many Topeka homes
but in no one is it more of an accom-
plishment than it is at the home OF
Mrs. Stone, wife of George M Stone,
the Topeka artist Every dish that
she places on her table is a chef
d'oeuvre Thus tho "salubriousness
of Mrs Stone, a delightful French
woman whose interest in her kitchen
and cooking is not an annoyance in
cident to living or a drudgery to be
delegated to some one for hire, as 1t
is m most households that are ridden
with the delicateSSen habit, is a cul-
tivated art. French people are usu-
ally animated and impetuous in their
actions but this manner is by no
means transferred to the kitchen of
the French housewife where preci-
sion, orderlineSS, economy and care
fulnesS are practiced.
They tell me that I cook well but
I do not think So" Mrs Stone ex-
asked 20 tell about her culinary skill.
Il learned it at my home in France
and l have always been cooking.
like to do it and always try to do 1t
we'll"
She Likes to Took.
With this statement Mrs Stone be-
gan to tell of the interesting things
about cooking. She was so interested
in her subject that she talked rapidly
and at times had a nard time finding
an English word to explain her mean
ing When she talks about cooking
her French accent stands out more
pronounced than ever. She is in
tensely interested in her work at home
and this is the true sentiment of the
artistic, and, by the way, scientific
housewife. Mrs. Stone likes to cook
and wants to do it we'll How we'll
she does it can be learned from those
,,f Inr dn10 TO n 10
dishes In France the housewife is
worthwhile: she wouldn't get to be a
wife at all if she was not, and it is
this spirit that inspires Mrs. Stone,
who is a native of Sedan, France.
RenOWn Is Universal.
The fame of the French chef is cos
mopolitan but the renown of the
French housewife is universal. TIC be
of a home is the career for which !
Mrs. Stone was trained and her train !
ing was of the highest type. Solomon, |
writing some thousand years ago, |
might have been thinking of just such |
type of woman when he wrote:
.'She looketh well after the ways /
of her household, and eateth not the /
bread of idleness.''
Surely he was not thinking of the |
thOusa nds of American women and /
housewives whose sole interest is in /
fine clothes. rouGed checks, and the !
gayety of the white lights.
A Characteristic Type.
Mrs. Stone is the type characteris- !
tic of the real French woman that the |
tourists do not meet She is deeply /
interested in Ter husband, her home. |
her garden, her flowers, her chickens, |
and her books. AT her home in High |
land Park she has all of these. From |
her husband, perhaps, she gets the in /
centive to be a good cook; from her
home she breathes the spirit Of |
France and all it teaches about good |
housewives; from her garden she
gathers the vegetable from which
she makes 1nsny of her "dishes'' that
bring her fame; from her flowers she
gets the perfume and beauty which |
adorns her table at each meal; with
her chickens she makes fries and
stews that ore delicious; and from her
books she gets contentment. If there
is a housewife in Topeka who is not
enjoying her life to it's fullest extent
let her try the recipe just given. There
can be no failure.
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