Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-11
STAGE IS Set
FOR WEEK OF
INSTRUCTION
Myra Oliver Dougan,
Authority on Home
Economics, Arrives
For Session

Mrs. Myra Oliver Dougan. native
Texan and nationally known home
economics authority, has arrived IN
this city and the stage is set for
the opening of Tho Brownsville
Hcrald's five-day cooking school
which III 70 open at $3.50 o'clock
Monday afternoon in the high school
cafeteria.
Arriving here from Laredo late
Saturday, Mrs. Dougan immediately
set about making final plans for the
Brownsville school which has al
ready attracted the attention OF hun
drcds of Brownsville matrons VINO
have learned through experience
that the old saying "the way 10 n
mans heart " through his stomach"
is without flaw.
Mrs. Dougan closed n five-day
caaking school at Laredo Friday, and
reports from there were to the ef-
feet that IL was the most success
iul yer held in that border city.
Experienced Teacher
During the past few years, Mrs.
Dougan has conducted these schools
in practically every city % the
Southwest with remarkable success.
She IS a national parsonage ant is
personally known throughout Texas,
Oklahoma and Arkansas a. the out
standing authority on home onom
les.
She is not a graduate in home
economics, though, and what she has
learned Of the culinary art has been
through experience, the surcst
teacher.
OF course there will be awards
which are TO be presented TO each
days class By the Cara Hardware
company, Edelstein's Furniture COM
pany, Borderland Furniture COM
pany. Rio Grande Gas Appliance
company and the Pioneer Flour
Mills. What these prizes are to be
have not yet been announced but IL
- certain they will be all that can
be expected and more than well
worth the effort that must be put
forth to win them.
Many Cooperating
Last. but BY far not least. there il
the grand award which Is 10 be pre-
scented TO high scorer at the close
of the school Friday afternoon.
This. a Universal in-a-drawer gas
range. ~ being donated BY the Kio
! Grande Valley Gas company.
The Pioneer Flour Mills, through
the Champion Grain company. Will
furnish four 6-pound sacks Of angel
food flour AND four 6-pound sacks
Of Pioneer flour each day during
the school and hundreds OF small
sacks of both ilours will be given
away during the five-day session.
Manufacturers and merchants who
are cooperating with The Herald's
| cooking school are: Ainsworth and
Colgin, Borderland Furniture COM
pany, Brownsville Bakery, Calumet
Baking Powder company, Champion
Grain company, Eagle Pharmacy,
Edelstein's Furniture company, ri
Jardin hotel, Cara Hardware COM
pany. Gebhardt Chilli Powder ccm-
pany. Mercedes Creamery, Mistletos
Creamery company Of Weslaco, Mod
Ell Laundry, J. Z. Penney company,
". II. Putegnat (kelvinator), the
Proctor and Gamble par Quinn
and Derrick, Rio Grande Valley Gas
company, Rio Grande Valley Gas APP
~pliance company and the Texas
Building and Loan company.
Varied Course Planned
Classes will be held each after
moo from 1880 10 4:30 ". w. and
plenty Of parking space has been
provided by the Brownsville public
school authorities on their campus
in the rear Of the high school build
ing.
Mrs. Dougan will feature IVA her
demonstrations and lectures the
preparation of salads. cakes, breads,
miscellaneous housekeeping hints
and meat cutting. Her lectures will
be found particularly helpful % the
young housewife and the matron who
is DESTROYS of serving better meals
at a lower cost. She seeks 20 en-
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