The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-17

directions, and one Of her leads Is inS
the direction Of kitchen economy and
the science Of beating the high cost
Of food.
Recently young married woman,
whose husband is connected with a
New York trust company, said over
her dinner table:
"My dear, appalling waste is going
on in my kitchen. 1 don't know how
to stop it. Do you know anything
about food values or calories?"
BLESS my soul, no!' he replied. IT
can't help you there. Why don't you
&C TO a cooking school and learn?"
She has taken his advice and Is a
student in an institution where these
practical women of society are teach
ing disrnayed sisters how to make a
horse show OF beef do for three
meals.
The Institution Is the New York Cook
ing School. of which Mrs. Frederick w.
Vanderbilt is the honorary head and
Mrs. Adrian Iselin the president, with
Mrs. #. de r. Wissman, the active d.
rector as chairman of the house COM
mittee. Mrs. Thomas Hastings handles
the finances, Mrs. Clarence Blair
Mitchell does the secretarial work and
their associates as trustees include the
Hon. Mrs. Alfred Arson, who also il
vtce-president; Mrs. Edward J. Berwind
Mrs. Walter Phelps Bliss. Mrs. William
B. Dickerman. Mrs. Henry Clay F'rick
Mrs. James J. Goodwin. Mrs Harold
=. MADDEN. Mrs. q. Henry Hartman.
Mrs. Bradish johnson. Miss Annie Burr
Jennings. Mrs. Arthur Curtiss James.
Mra Cadwalader Jones. Mrs. Harry I.
Miller, Mrs. w. Emlen Roosevelt, Mrs
Henry Sanford and Mrs. Charles Senff
They have an advisory committee In
Messrs Robert w. de Forest and Robert
X. Prentice.
Realizes It's Possibilities.
While tho school was founded more
than forty years ago. II has only just
realized how great are its possibilities
From a remarkable record OF war SER
vice az branch of the United States
army and navy, the institution finds IT.
self a part of New York's civic ma
chincry. Last week IL entered q new era
with the purchase OF the house at 1853
East Sixty-first street.
Like score of other philanthropic
projects In this city. It is dominated by
women Its sponsors, who are to be
found In more than hundred of the
leading homes. include Mrs. John T..
Alexandra. Mrs Charles T. Barney, Miss
Caroline Dc Forest, Mrs. J. Woodward
Haven. Mrs Richard M. Hoe, Mrs. Penn
broke Jones. Mrs. Adolf Ladenburg. Mrs.
George b. Post, Mrs. Roy A. Rainey,
Mrs Richard Trimble. Mrs. Ramsay
Turnbull. Mrs. Alexander s. Webb, Mrs
w. Storrs Wells. Mrs. Marshall Orme
Wilson, Mrs. Luclus X. Wilmerding,
Mrs. Michael NJ Van Beuren. Mrs. WILL
lam Woodward. Mrs. H. Fairfield Os-
hr<
Joseph Pulitzer. Mrs James Lowell Pvt
nam. Mrs. John u. Parsons, Mrs. Her
bert L. Pratt, Mrs. J. Oakley Rhine
lander. Mrs. Henry s. Redmond. Mrs.
Hiram w. Sibley. Mrs. James Russell
6oley and Mrs. Frank X. sturgis.
Other active supporters OF the cooking
school are Mrs. William jay, Mrs. CO.
lumbus O'D. Iseiin, Mrs. Seymour John
SON. Mrs. J. Herbert Johnston, Mrs.
Mabel Van Rensselaer, johnson. Mrs.
Hamilton Fish Kean. Mrs. Joseph T.
Low. Mrs. Pierre Mali, Mrs. Samuel r.
Bertron, Mrs. William II. BENJAMIN,
Miss Susan Bliss. Miss Grace Bigelow.
Mrs. J. Nelson Borland. Mrs. Charles
A. Chlds, Mrs. James II. Duke Mrs
De Coursey Fales, Mrs Hamilton Fish
Mrs. j. Horace Harding Miss Eleanor
Hewitt. Mrs. Edward NJ. House and
Mrs. Edward +. Hutton. who was Mrs.
Merrtweather Post Close.
It's Part I'm the war.
Up 20 the time the United States en-
tered the war. In the spring OF 1917, the
school had lived up to its original idea
that the lack of knowledge of whole
some cooking 10 appalling In city and
country" Soon after that fateful Good
Friday the school became :. national
factor. Like other philanthropic prof.
ects that help without profit TO itself
the institution was brigaded into the
public service. From its temporary
Kitchens In West F'ifty-ninth street 5000
men we're graduated. over 1900 ne cooks
IN the navy and the remainder IN the
army. Others went out from the school
as commissary stewards. proficient In
dietetics on a wartime basis. and from
Rear Admiral Nathaniel r.. Usher then
commandant of the Third Naval dis
trlct. there came letter 10 Mrs. Van
derbiit saying that 1.-THE cooks that have
graduated from your school have beer
doing well In active service and have
reflected great credit upon your staff
Through nine months following the