The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-01
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During the coming week, June 2 to to z, the women of Birmingham will have an opportunity of enjoying a splendid course of cooking lectures, which will be given free to them by Miss Dana Gatchell, one of the most efficient teachers of the south, under the auspices of the Woman's club.
 The school will be opened each morn- ing at 10 o'clock with a short, lecture, along nutritional lines. This will be followed by the cooking lecture and dem onstration at 10 80 o'clock and from 12 until there will be. course of lessons in millinery.
 Miss Gatchell, who received her B. s. degree at Columbia university, holds professional diploma from the Teachers college, Columbia university, and is graduate student of the same institu- tion. She was also student of Miss Farmers School of Cooking, in Boston.
 Miss Gatchell has been teaching food work of the home for the past ten years in the high schools of Alabama and in technical schools in Louisiana. For the past year she has been the head of the food and nutrition depart ment of the Alabama Polytechnic insti- tute at Auburn, dietician at the girls
 
 home and besides has catered for all the biz college functions. She is a fine speaker, possessed of unusual energy and her specialties are thorOughness and practical demonstration.
 In the short lectures preceding the cooking school, Miss Gatchell will deal with the subject of nutrition in its re- lations to young children, school chil- dren and adults. Following is the pro- gram for the week:
 Monday
 Salads, including nodded, frozen and dinner salads. Dressings, mayonnaise, French fruit, cooked dressings and fruit dressings.
 Tuesday and Wednesday,
 Preparation of meats; fillet of beef, mushroom sauce, veal outlets, zingara, stuffed breasts of chicken (santed mush- rooms), boned chicken, flanked steak (indiyiduaD, maitre d'hotel butter.
 Thursday
 Vegetables: Principals of cooking and unusual ways of serving.
 Friday
 Pastry tarts, frozen mixtures, service of ice cream, coupes, etc.
 Besides the regular program each day Miss Gatchell will introduce extras, among which will be included tea bis cults, beaten biscuits and many attrac- tive good things to eat.
 Prizes will be presented each day among those attending besides samples of dishes demonstrated.
 Following the cooking schoo, Miss Gatchell will conduct a class in milll- nery, for which small fee will be charged. She will teach the cutting of simple patterns for hat crowns, the making of simple brims and their GOV .ering, the making of thin hats and the remodeling of hats.
 It is requested that those wishing to join the millinery school buy the follow ing equipment to work with: Scissors, pins, tape measure and some large sheets of paper from which to cut pat terms.
 The school, of which Miss Gatchell will be in charge. is to be given for the benefit of the art department of the Woman's club and the proceeds will be used in the payment for the magnii- cent painting, Fading GlOries," by Brewer, which hangs in the library of the Woodlawn High school, the gift of this club.
 saThe committee in charge includes NdrS. d. T. WI are, clup preSluenl' Ars' J. Nj. Hankins, Mrs. R. A. Clayton, Mrs. O. D. Freeman, Mrs c. Yandle, Mrs c. s. McLarn, Mrs. 0. D. Henley, Mrs. W. G. Lewis, Mrs W: P Mullins, Mrs. Newton Sharp, Mrs. R. K. Ken nedy, Mrs. W. c. Vice, Mrs. H. H. Lind, Mrs Meags, Mrs. J. B. Gibson, Mrs. A. J. Massey, Mrs. J. D. Maddox, Mrs. Frank Mcdonald, Mrs. Arthur Wat kins, Miss Elizabeth Perkins, Mrs. Charles White, Mrs. Walter Scheuster, Miss Pearl Sandifer, Mrs. William A. Lawson, Mrs. c. W. Hall, Mrs. w. O. Hall and Mrs. Houston CranfOrd.