The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-17

wrote Mrs. Wilson praising the cake she had baked and decorated with her own hands for the White House Christmas dinner, and said; We thought it the most beautiful cake we had ever seen; indeed it is too pretty to eat and we are keeping it awhile longer to look att Mrs. Wilson is justly proud of this letter She feels that she@has been done an honor great CT than if she had been called upon to bake cakes for all the kings of the earth.
 A Nation Wide Demand
 The weeks preceding the last Christmas were the very busiest of Mrs. Wilson's whole professional ca reer, for her fame has gone abroad and her delicacies were in great demand. Hundreds of cakes and dozens of plum buildings were mixed, baked. packed and shipped all over the United States from her home kitchen, all this bein g done without calling in extra help or upsetting the family routine or buy ing one single new pot, pan or kitchen contrivance of any sort. So when Mrs. Wilson talks about home kitchens she speaks with authority; she knows her subject thoroughly and is preaching what she has been practicing for many years.
 Mrs. Wilson's Personality
 Of Mrs. Wilson and her cooking one who knows has said:
 Those of us fortunates who have eaten what she cooks wonder if she did not originate the food served to the gods on Mount Olympus and if at sometime ages ago she was not the high priestess in the royal kitchen of T,x 1,fx Nsxvx ha gloriously good things she can cook, but for the reason that her home-lov- ing nature keeps her near her own hearthstone' there are fewer people who know anything of her wonderful personality, the foundation of which is understanding - an understanding deep and sincere. of the lives of her sister women, an understanding that realizes with warm sympathy the pet ty worries of poor servants, daily small economies and the friction that each day brings the home maker. This understanding of other womens lives makes of Mrs. Wilson friend as well as teacher. It gives to her advice a weight of authority that carries con- viction to her audiences. One feels that here is a woman who knows, not professional imparting knowledge but an earnest worker passing the ex- perience of a lifetime on to her neigh bors. This is one of the secrets of her marvellous personality.the neighborly attitude of heart that<takes each wom- an with whom she comes into con- tact into her confidence and with friendly sympathy tells her just the sort of things that will help her most"
 No End of Recipes
 Mrs. Wilson has recipes for every thing under the sun, 1t would seem, foods of all kinds, cakes, sandwiches, salads, dainty palate ticklers" all of them. and she has recipes for worries and perplexities, too-all of them free to women who need her and all given with happy cheerfulness that makes it a pleasure to receive them. Re cipes by the hundred, but of secrets not one." she smilingly says. She holds that her mission in life Is to help, to teach. to pass on what she herself learns, never to withhold anything that might profit another housekeeper and homemaker to know.
 According to Betty Lyle Wilson
 There can hardly be more beautiful mission than that of a woman who sees to it that the children of her household are given the happiness and efficiency that good health insures.
 housekeeper Is guardian of the good order and serenity of her home, but even more than these she Is responsible for it's healthfulness, and in this 1t is not only unselfishness and devotion in the matter of good nursing when illness &C., tually comes that counts but care and wisdom in the prevention of sickness, that shows the highest affection and effi- cheney.
 l once knew mother whose love for her household of frail and ailing children had passed into a family proverb for its unselfishness during the many long spells of illness to which her family were subject. yet who never once stopped to think through all the days and years of anxious nursing that were hers. that the unspeakable condition of her refrig- etator and the neglect of proper drain- age, even in the healthful country neigh borhcod where she lived. were causes for disaster that might easily have been removed.
 Ill health and sickness are tremendous