Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-07
WOMEN SHOW INTEREST
IN WAR COOKING SCHOOLS
Mrs. Vaughn's Lectures Continue to
Draw Largo Crowd
Daily.
GIVES MANY PRACTICAL HINTS
School Closes Tomorrow, and Those
Who Have Not Done So Are Es-
pecially Invited to Attend Glasses
To-Day and Saturday.

The women Of the city continue to
given in homo economics by Mrs. Kate
Brew Vaughn, under the auspices Of
The Times-Dispatch. She taught dur
ing the summer in North Carolina. and
had classes larger than she could &C
commodate. She was given there the
nickname OF tho human dynamo" as
she taught all day and never seemed
tired She Is proving as popular hero
as elsewhere She is OF the opinion
that woman's business Of housekccp-
ing Is just as great as tho mans busi-
ness Of making the money, and she de-
clares that women all over the country
are thinking OF the business manage
ment OF the home to very gratifying
extent.
Mrs. Vaughn assails In her effective
way, the woman who leaves the rear
ing Of her children to servants, and her
points are no less forceful because of
her unique way of expressing them. and
they meet with approval on all sides.
The eagerness of the mothers to at
tend the lectures and the questions they
ask evidence their desire that the child
shall have square deal in the bring
Ing up, and not be handicapped by in
difference to its diet and environment.
touching incident was related of q
woman whose heart was torn in twain
by the recent draft. Her son was a stu
dent at Yale. and when tho call for
volunteers came last spring he enlisted
with others from his class. His mother
was heartbroken at the thought OF CIV
Ing the boy up, but realized that he fol-
lowed the dictates of his duty. She
was almost inconsolable when he was
examined and found physically unfit for
V. III 10 fa
and milk and mixed country diet.
and he answered the draft some weeks
ago. She was sorry to see him leave
again, but she fervently prayed that he
would pass, not only because she was
patriotic. but she felt that his physical
condition was reflection upon her
motherhood.
ONLY TWO MORE SESSIONS
OF WAR COOKING SCHOOL
There remain only two more sessions
OF the school II you have not been in
attendance each afternoon you are now
invited TO avail yourself OF the unusual
opportunity offered you. 1t costs Won
nothing. and you will be glad you came.
The program starts this afternoon at
2:3o, and the place is the Masonic Tenn
pie on Broad Street. Following is
the menu for to-day:
Vegetable hot pot, grapefruit. salad
French dressing, apple sauce cake hot
chocolate. 0'
Some OF Mrs. vaughn's special "a
cipes follow:
Rolled Oats Bread.
One cup -four, one and one half Guns
cornmeal. one teaspoon salt, two table
spoons shortening tmelted), ono Gun
mix. two tablespoons molasses. five
teaspoons cream tartar baking DOW
oer. one cup rolled oats. one egg
Slit together -four. cornmeal. salt
and baking powder. Place the rolled
oats over the steam of teakettle for
about ten minutes to soften il and add
to the dry ingredients. Beat the egg.
add molasses and milk and then add
TO hrst mixture. Pour into oiled pans.
allow to rise slowly and bake in mod
erately heated oven t25o to 35o).
Cocoon FrostinE.
One cup NXXN sugar, one egg white,
one teaspoon vanilla, one-fourth cup
cocoa. one tablespoon cream or milk,
one tablespoon melted butter.
Beat egg white and cocoa we'll Add
gradually cream, melted butter and
vanilla extract. Spread.
Sponge Cake.
Two eggs. one cup powdered sugar,
ono cup -four. two teaspoons baking
powder. two teaspoons lemon juice. six,