The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-01-24
DEAN OF WOMEN In
HOME ECONOMICS
Mss ANNA BARROWS, NATIONAL
Ll kNOWN, is PRINCIPAL Lee
TURER DURING THE WEEK
Application Of Scientific Principles in
Every Day Life, Her Creed
Her Lectures Valuable

If sound common sense, direct
ready speech, sparkling vivacity, and
personality that Immediately COM
pels respect and admiration-if these
things are what Moscow women are
attracted to, they will one and all
flock to hear Miss Anna Barrows, who
is the great card of Housekeeper's
week program.
Miss Barrows arrived this morning
she has been delivering a series of
lectures before the public schools of
that city. Previous to that engage
ment she filled one at Forest Grove,
Portland, Tacoma, and Corvallis. At
the last named place she was, accord
ing to the report of Mr. Iddings who
was there at the same time, the most
enthusiastically received lecturer and
demonstration they have ever had.
After leaving here, Miss Barrows
will go to Logan, Utah, and then to
California.
Miss Barrows is a nationally pop
ular speaker and writer. She is the
dean of all women now actively en-
gagged throughout the United States in
home economics platform work. Miss
Barrows is on the staff of the Ladies'
Home Journal. She is member of
the faculty of Columbia university and
is On duty there part of each year.
She has written two wellknown |
books on kitchens and vegetables,
and has one in press on animal foods.
Miss Barrows is highly regarded by
the editors of Good Housekeeping
Magazine and by the agricultural de-
partment bureaus in Washington.
Last year as secretary of the Amer
lean Home Economics association she
travelled all over the country, espec-
tally through the south and establish
ed a great following everywhere. She
has been in charge of the school of
cookery at Chautauqua, New York, for !
the past fifteen years.
Miss Barrows has crisp, business
like manner that inspires confidence,
and her New England accent and keen
New England sense of humor con- |
tribute charm and spice to what she
says. (
When one hears on what a sensible :
platform Miss Barrows builds all her
creed and teachings, one is not sur
prIsed that she is welcomed and e
sought after all over the country
II always aim" explained Miss Bar ,
rows to a Star-Mirror reporter "to
take a middle course between the ex-
tremely scientific people and those
who put too much time and expense
into fancy cooking. | stand for the
application of scientific principles III
everyday life. Thrift is the keynote,
and ] believe in the saving of energy
time, and labor, as we'll as in saving
money.
I'm the four days that | shall be
here, / want to cover the general
principles of cookery I take them up
nnder the subjects of fish, flesh, and
fOwl; fruits and vegetables; batters
md coughs. This covers practically
Ill forms of cooking. In that way |
Tim TO give people an insight into all
of cookery so that they may n
use good cook books more intelli- r
emily ,
AT my demonstrations, | lay no
'reat stress on the serving Of the
rOducts cooked during demoDstra Il
ions | regard such serving as an
njnstified waste of time. | display
THAT we cook but | do not spend u
ny time passing it around. | leave p
hat feature to the commercial firms /,
rho have products they wish to adver-
se and who send out special demon
traitors for commercial purpose. III
My lectures will begin on time, aad
think | can promise the women of ~
Ioscow and Latah county that my
Ork will be definite and practical. sc
don't go in for fancy things at all. IN
leave that kind of cookery to the ~,
swIy-weds who probably get their
ne of satisfaction from that method ~
wasting time and money" til
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