Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-08
MANY PROMINENT WOMEN
ATTEND COOKING SCHOOL
Heat Docs Not Prevent Them From
Hearing Mrs. Kate Vaughn's
Lectures.
SEE "FIRELEss COOKER" WORK
Charts Showing Suggested Family
budget" to Meet Every Income,
Prove I" BE interesting Display.
Her Receipts Arc Much Sought.

Apparently the thermometer does
not know the degree of heat that will
Keep women from attending tho lee
lures which Mrs. Kate r. Vaughn is
giving this week 1T the Masonic Tenn
/ pie. under the auspices Of The Times
! Dispa tch The hail. which seats 500
| people. was well filed downstairs. and
the audience was an enthusiastic one.
! The lecturers subject Yesterday was
Household Economy" followed by a
! demonstration OF the hreless cooker
| as n money saver. The delighted au-
! dioncc saw chicken roas.ed and par
| TAFT frozen side by sid. I'm the same
cooker" Mrs. Vaughn also cooked
and passed around Banbury tarts.
| Dixie" biscuits. corncd oysters and a
delicious fruit salad. She was asked
| many questions by those in the audi :
! cnce. which included many prominent
women of the city. Several remained
after the meeting to congratulate and
! inquire.
! Mrs. Vaughn, who is Southern
| woman and member of the DauEh-
| 'era Of the Confedcracy, is proud Of
the fact that this is woman's world
| and woman's day
business men and manufa cturers -
| she says. must get the co-opcra ton
| of women. Housekeeping is coming
| into its own. We have been Keeping
house too much as n matter of course.
J .
! Bankers have conventions with the
| Idea of having banks moro efficient.
| Merchants meet TO discuss the best
methods OF improving their business.
! Workers along all lines get together
in conventions and conferences Of va
| rious sorts, and now we have convcn-
lions for housekccpers"
HAS .FAMILY BUDGET"
FOR EVERY INCOME
IN har tn1 Of,
| the cost OF living. she referred fire.
| quently to the charts hung about the
ROOM and many of these were copied
into the notebooks brought to the
school by Mrs. Vaughn's pupils"
One is n suggested budget for n fam
lily of two adults and three children
having an annual income of $500
| There is another budget showing the
| proper distribution OF a Sl.00O-ncome
and still another for a s2.oo0-income
/ These charts show both the proper
and improper expenditure of money
for various purposes For instance
- per cent of the s700-lncome, which
would BIO 1915, should he expended for
food. and not 60 per cent, as is Otter
the case. Out OF an income OF $4,000
% per cent, or $500 should 20 for food
and not 80 per cent. Fifteen per cen,
Of the $500 income. 20 per cent OF a
$1,000 or $4,000 income goes for shell.
tcr-that is, rent or taxes, interest anG
| repairs.
Another interesting chart shows the
qualifications for the success Of the
carpenter and a carpenters wife, and
IL is rather startling to know that tho
carpenters wife requires far more fol
the successful carrying on of her bust.
ness in the home than the carpente,
does to earn S25 week at his trade.
/ SHE ASKS QUESTIONS
OF CLASS MEMBERS
The talk was thought provoking
one and gave rise to much interesting
discussion. The lecture for this after.
noon is on Food in Relation to Health
and Morals"
| Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Vaughn
! suggested several questions which she
desired the members of her classes tc
think over before hearing her talk this
| afternoon on this important suhjr-t
| These questions were as follows: What