Wkistorical 1 ighlights lf CJma Scott Motion (Beleased by Western Newspaper Union.) Valentine to U. S. Women ON FEBRUARY 14, 1842, a Bos-tonian, Bos-tonian, named' Corson, and his wife presented a valentine to the women of America although at the time they had no way of knowing they had done so,. For on that date the Corsons became the parents of a daughter to whom they gavt the name of Juliet And it was this little girl who was destined to establish the first cooking school and thereby have a far-reaching effect upon the diet of future generations, not only of Americans but of people all over the world. Juliet Corson's parents moved to TJaot Vnrk- whfin she was six vears old and, because( she was a sickly child and denied the joy of taking part in most children's chil-dren's pastimes, she became an , avid reader and I devoted most of her time to her studies. Forced to make her own living at the age of 20, she became librarian of the Working Women's library for which she was paid $4 a week. However, she raised that to $9 by writing a weekly article for the New York Leader. This led to her being asked to prepare the semi-annual index of the National Quarterly Review and later to her becoming a member of the editorial staff of that publication. publica-tion. In those days most Americans still believed that "women's place is in the home" and the nearest thing to a career epen to them was employment em-ployment as a seamstress. In order or-der to make them more efficient in this occupation, Miss Corson in 1873 started in her own home a free training school for the young women of New York city. The school grew so rapidly that she was forced to seek larger quarters and these were provided by Wheeler and Wilson, manufacturers of sewing machines in their building. They lent machines ma-chines for the use of the school, as did other manufacturers, and within with-in a year more than 1,000 girls had been taught how to sew and at least three-fourths of them immediately found employment. Trained Stenographers. By this time Miss Corson had also added stenography and bookkeeping to the curriculum of her school and soon afterwards began giving training train-ing for domestic service. As her school grew she took a large house, used the top floor as a dormitory for her students, the first floor for classrooms class-rooms where sewing, laundering and other household work was taught and the basement for a kitchen where meals were served at cost to many girls employed in the neighborhood. Out of the latter grew her belief that "diet can make men strong or weak, intelligent or stupid" and she began her life-work of teaching both the rich and the poor the proper way to prepare foods. She did this through public lectures and through articles which she wrote for the newspapers. In 1876 Miss Corson established in New York a "cooking school for ladies," la-dies," the first of its kind in America, Ameri-ca, and within a short time 1,000 women were receiving instruction there annually. She charged rich women high fees to attend the school but asked only 50 cents a lesson from women of the middle class and gave instruction free to poor girls. The next year, during the railroad strikes, when there was great distress dis-tress among the poorer classes she wrote a valuable little book, "Fifteen-Cent Dinners for Workingmen's Families." It cost $6,000 to print and distribute this booklet, free of charge, to workingmen earning $1.50 a day or less, but all but $100 of this sum was provided by Miss Corson Cor-son out of the earnings from her school. Incidentally, her booklet was translated into several foreign languages lan-guages and soon had a world-wide circulation. It was a boon to the poor people of every nation. After the success of this booklet. Miss Corson became a lecturer on diet and founded many other cooking cook-ing schools. She also began campaigning cam-paigning for the introduction of the study of cooking into the public schools and because of this she was asked by the United States commissioner commis-sioner of education to- prepare a "Dietary for Schools" which was published and distributed by the department de-partment of the interior. Her long career of usefulness, especially to the laboring classes, came to an end with her death in 1897. Another Claim to Fame, Another of Juliet Corson's claims to fame rests upon her pioneer work in preparing "concentrated foods" for soldiers and explorers, and medicated foods for invalids. At the Chicago World's fair of 1893 she was the only person who was given an award for "scientific cookery and sanitary dietetics." She was also chosen as a member of the committee commit-tee of judges of food products at the exposition, was twice elected to that position and was finally asked to serve permanently.