The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-18
The Age-Herald Cooking School In the Auditorium of Manufactures
FAMOUS COOKING EXPERT TELLS STORY
 OF THE TIME SHE MADE HER FIRST CAKE

the house and see that my home Is in order so she thought And so the progress was made from room to room, pausing beside a table to set the books straight. then a little further on ar ranging a. vase of flowers, every day doing a bit here. a bit there tiny little things not necessary in them selves, but immeasurably needfu1 for her Then after weeks of slow pro- gress the kitchen was reached and Betty Wilson had come into her own. But how little she realized it then, for when she had set few pans straight and looked into the cupboard she was too tired to do more. The call, though, had come, because next day instead of going through the other rooms first she went right into the kitchen. Il didn't know why" she says. it just seemed as if I liked that best-what l found to do there interested me most"
 A book lying on the table in the kitchen caught her eye one day, pick ing it up it fell open and on the page the first words were, Recipe for Easy Cake" With sudden inspiration the chair was wheeled to the closet a few simple materials were set out. an in valid in an invalids chair found anchor before butter and sugar and eggs the eager hands fell to mixing. and 10, Bet ty Wilson, cakemaker, was born. That was Mrs. Wilson's erst cake, but she was only equal to putting ingredients together then, the baking was left to the maid. Still she was a proud and happy woman, she had found som ething she could do, something worth while, and life took on a new meaning. The strug- gle back to health, the long days yet before strength came, convalescencs, and finally the doctors words, "Wefl bat cfa hut and she could leave sickness and pain and take up work in earnest.
 Cake-making, the work was of course cakes for home, for neighbors, occasion ally for small parties, deliciously com pounded, filled with fruit and nuts put together with mixtures of flavor ous. lucious goodness but all iced with yet come of the wonderful flowers and fruit and leaves lying back in some corner of her brain, waiting.
 The only ornamentation Mrs. Wilson had so far achieved was for her moth CTS birthday cake. This was the inn portant cake of the year. but her only decorative attempt for it was to fash ion the word Mother" across it in cin- namon drops
 After seeing Mrs Wilson at her decor ative work of today, when blossoms of every lovely shape and hue drop from the simple paper tubes as from an en- chanter's wand, through her magic welding, it is a difficult thing to inn agine her pride when she first learned to write a single name in icing. She will tell you this was harder than the bewildering effects she Bets now, and she will tell you many other marvellous things as well.
 She is going to lecture in Birming- ham for five days. she is going to give xx-n n,fx fl.1 r,t- ham fancy, she is going to make every sort of good thing from soup to nuts and she is going to give a public ex- hibition of her decorative art, the kind of. decoration that only Betty Wilson can do.
 The Age-Herald invites every woman in Birmingham to come every day, and promises you more new ideas for en- tertaining. more helps in housekeep- ing, greater wholesomeness for every meal you serve hereafter, than you've ever known before.