Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-05-31
S C. h ool girls, College
Women and Matrons
in Rush to En- ter
Contest for Cookery
Prizes.

No recent event has stirred up SO much
activity and enthusiasm among school
| girls as the EVENING LEDGER's Cooking
| School Contest The contest is the
1 principal topic of discussion at all of
! the cooking school centres OF the city.
Enthusiasm is running high among the
| children and II seems now that the en-
tries will run we'll into tie thousands
Many children, who have heard the
| Cooking Contest Editor Of the EVENING
| LEDGER, have shown exceptional eager
ness to win one of the four prizes which
! will be given in each of the four di-
visions. These children are making
elaborate and careful preparations to
capture a prize. They are going about
their arrangements with pride and de-
termination, and 1t can safely be said
that the prizes will be won by children
who will take the contest in an entirely
serious manner.
SHOULD STUDY RULES
Children should keep in mind the reg
ulations governing this contest. They
are being printed daily in the EVENING
LEDGER and circulars containing the
rules are being distributed to the vari-
Gus cooking schools of the city. An
other feature of which children should
not lose sight is the value of the vari-
GUS prizes in the four divisions of the
contest. The announcement of the sec
tomorrow.
A number of heads Of institutions that
are devotng careful attention to the do
mestic science feature are enthusiastic
over the contest All feel that 1t is a
great step toward increasing interest in
this feature of the education of Phila-
delphia girls.
The EVENING LEDGER cooking contest
is a splendid idea" said Miss Day. head
of the domestic science department at
Temple College. "for every girl should
know all the ins and outs of cooking. SO
many girls fail adequately to realize the
immense value a cooking course offers.
1t really doesn't matter what career
girl desires, the gentle art of cooking
always proves useful.
1T really Is essential that every girl
know how to cook and prepare a meal
lack of all cooking knowledge proves
the undolng of many a marriage. The
girl that enters matrmony ought to be
prepared for II. 1t doesn't matter whether
she is to be rich or poor. for in any case
she must know enough TO be able to su-
pervise the work of her maids. No SER
want If left to herself can be relied on
altogether to turn things out satisfac-
torily.
"The EVENING LEDGER cooking contest
offers an incentive to girls to show what
they really can do in domestic science.
Personally, I think competition is excel
lent. It gives girl chance to show her
skill and it spurs her on to further efforts.
Cooking competitions always have
many entries. l have never yet known
one which was unsuccessful as regards
entries. And the curious part Is that peo-
pie of every age seem to wish to display
their culinary skill, from the tinest girl,
scarcely capable of boiling an egg, to vet
Grams who have beeen 10 years at the
game.
COOKERY a GREAT GAME.
Cookery, after all. is great game,
and an intensely fascinating one, too.
There is poetry in cooking, romance in
cookery, If people only had eyes to see
It, The new idea, which some people air,
as to domestic science being undignlhed
that any branch of the arts Is finer than
domestic science 1t certainly calls forth |
all ones powers. Brains have to be used |
in cooking Just as much and as often |
as in any other art The ignorant cook |
never will be a good cook
II am looking forward to the lectures |
of Mrs. Anna A. Carroll and to the dem |
onstrations of gas ranges. One always |
learns something new on these occasions, |
and when the lecturer is as interesting |
as MIS-. Carroll always is. then 1t is a |
pleasure to attend. l congratulate the |
EVENING LEDGER on the idea it has taken |
up rs to the holding of this cooking con-
test"