Show COOKING LASSES FOR lIEN New Scheme For Insuring Healthful Food In Uo House fen at last are to have an opportunity opportu-nity of demonstrating to their wives the art of making mothers pies The proposal of the New York HouSe I hold Economic association to start cooking classes for men has met with the warmest welcome Iothers approve ap-prove of it for their sons wives for their husbands and maidens for their sweethearts while the men themselves I are showing theIr appreciation by paying pay-ing the fee I The first class is to be limited to twelve It is to be a regular cooking class and the food prepared and cooked I by men under the Instruction of a I domestic science teacher The scheme I may sound comical on first hearing and perhaps a totally unnecessary Institution In-stitution For the average man it is and should remain so But It also has its serIous and practical side Few people peo-ple know how many men are com elied to rely on theIr own efforta In preparing prepar-ing their meals and perhaps fewer know how pathetically helpless they are for lack of any knowledge of the simplest principles of cooking The class oC men compelled to do their on cooking are usually students with very limited incomes men whose wives are III foreigners unaccustomed to the culinary ways of other countries than their own and a few crank The first of these the students arc in tile majority In large cities and college towns there are always many men with incomes so slender that existence ex-istence is barely cited out by turning the sharpest sorts of corners Men arc obliged to earn a living while taking a college course and stand In pressing need of three square meals per day Usually the student is ignorant Ignor-ant of how to market and very rarely knows anything about preparing what he buys Such knowledge would be of Inestimable value for Instance how to prepare four or six substantial dinners at a very low cost He might save time money and in many cases his health Undoubtedly such men will advocate ad-vocate the cooking classes and should they spread attend them It Is safe to say that onethird of the studios in New York arc rented to men I who do more or less of their own housekeeping house-keeping Many have little corners fitted up expressly for cooking and these same little corners usually look as though the chef needs a course In dishwashing dish-washing and general scientific scouring scour-Ing Countless men attempt breakfast making In hall bedrooms and cool over the miniature heaters they adjust on the only gas jet In the room These men are helpless enough but how much more so arc those who with no servants and delicate wives arc often compelled to race the breakfast and dinnergetting problem Sooner or later cery man will find that a knowledge of cookery helps him over a hard place at some time and these classes are certainly a step in the right direction for me nwho have or are In danger of havIng the new woman for a wifeLILLIAN LILLIAN BAYNES |