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Show The Edinburgh School of Cooking was recently opened by a distinguished company of ladies and ????? [servants?]. Dr. Beddoe delivered an address in which he declared that the best woman, the truly virtuous woman, now, as in Solomon's days, is she who, while intellectually and socially able to rightly fill her position and to appreciate great ideas and unselfish aims, knows also how to cook and sew and nurse, and how to direct those who do these things for her. In housekeeping, if they do not themselves know how a thing should be done, they cannot expect to have it well done for them. To rule a household well requires very considerable talent and skill, and we may depend upon it that the woman who can cook a good dinner is no fool. Contrasting the art of cooking with that of music, he said an idiot might be a good musician, but he defied an idiot to be a good cook. There is plenty of room for the exercise of higher education of cooking. |