Evening star., 1922-07-02
OULD you cook your way around
the world?
II is new style in touring
that Solomon in all his glory

oULD you cook your way around
the world?
1t is new style in touring
that Solomon in all his glory
never heard tell of, but there is one girl
who thinks she may have to take that
method of seeing the four corners of
the earth-never mind about its be-
ing round
She is an American girl who has
spent most of her life in South Africa.
being a teacher of domestic science
in school there on six months leave
to glimpse Europe and her home
lands, including visit to Washing
ton, the most beautiful thing" she
has ever seen. While here. she con-
fided her longing for underworld
travel to a long-ago friend of her
mothers.
There are SO few avenues open
to women in South Africa that l am
fortunate to have my position. but, at
that, If l find that l cannot save
enough for my next adventuring !
shall start out to cook my way around
the world. Everybody. everywhere.
must eat and | will make money at
one place to pay my way to another.
1t will take long time. but will
give me an opportunity to see the
| world thoroughly you will
admit. is an exceedingly new thing
under the sun.
Naturally, one of the necessary
equipments for such journey will be
personal courage, which this traveller
ought to possess. seeing that she is
the granddaughter of a big general
| of the civil war, .great-niece Of two
prominent generals of Garfleld's ad-
ministration. with an endless chain of
cousins in every other army. here and
abroad. and a brother in the world
war. But, just by way of warning to
any other enthusiastic owners of
military pediSrees. this valiant wom-
an is also a teacher of domestic sci
ence. She knows how to cook.
A CHILDLESS couple live in a green
bit of back garden uptown. His
name is Mr.. Wren. and hers is Mrs
Jennie. Miss Kate. who owns the
garden. likes to believe that it is the
same Mr.. Wren who occupied the
bird-box last summer and who grieved
for his sparrow-killed mate until
loneliness fermented into a paroxysm,
in which he tore his nest to pieces
and took up bachelor lodging in the
next yard. Also. she judges by his
actions. tor. if in chastened atone
ment for past devastation. he imme-
diately started to build a nest in each
of the four rooms of his own house
and to furnish apartments in the
. empty boxes around.
When the official season for hatch
ing made no addition to the family.
Mrs. Jennie. also interested herself
in business. and the two twitter
around in active companionship. he
making landlordly visits of inspec-
tion to his tenants and she entertain
ing neighbors and their f1edglings in
her spare rooms. but whether as lodg-
ers or guests Miss Kate wouldn't like
| to say, not being positively certain.
You never heard of a wren mother
keeping boarders, did you? Nor of .
wren man going to work except for
| his own family-which seems to add
| weight to the assertion of that solon
who lived in "Plutarch's Lives"-name
forgotten-who told his world that
domestic happiness is the foe to prog
\ ress and that civilization owes its
advancement to the unsatisfied. All
| the same, Miss Kate is ready to bet
! that Mrs. Jennie would rather have
her proper share of f1edglings. Wrens
are that way. Likewise, women.