Show EVERY MAN HIS OWN COOK That boys should be taught how to cook seems a strange notion On this subject the Kansas City Star says I The manual training high school of i this city teaches cooking The classes are crowded With girls but there are i no boys It did not enter the mind of the teacher who arranged the classes that boys would ever desire to receive I instruction In cooking and no provision provis-ion was mada for them Recently a boy said to the principal that he wished to learn how to cook He has found other boys of the same mindenough I to form a good sized cooking class The request of these boys will be considered I by the school faculty This suggests a solution of the vexatious vex-atious hell problem Why not train I and employ men servants The complaint com-plaint is loud that women have taken the place of men In business and In the professions Retaliation would not be unfair If the women have gone into the dry goods stores why should the I man not go Into the kitchen It would not be surprising t6 find that men as a class would be quite as satisfactory as servants as women At least they might I prove more respectful to their employers employ-ers less prone to quarrel less suspicious suspi-cious of imposition They might be 1 taught to receive visitors with better grace to walt on the table with more ease and to manage the kitchen with more economy and better judgment than the woman servant The course at the manual training school might bs expanded so as to teach all those duties which a man servant should perform It might teach boys 1 I how to manage a household as well as I how tp saw a board or carve a scroll It might familiarize them with all the intricacies in-tricacies of domestic economythe buy I ing pf household supplies the preparation prepara-tion of food caring for rooms etc And it would not follow necessarily that the study of domestic service would be more distasteful to the boys than the I I trade of carpentry Manual training has now the dignity of a study and a boy could learn the science of household economy without fearing the ridicule of his companions It Is really not less suited to a bey than clerking or bookkeeping The training of men to be house servants might not only go far toward solving the servant problem to the satisfaction of the housewife but It would afford work for many persons who are now unemployed Whether teaching boys to cook and other household duties would have a I tendency to solve the servant girl problem prob-lem l may be doubted but It wouldnt be j a bad thing of itself A firstclass cook can command as high wages as a first I class mechanic But the question of the commercial value of a knowledge of how to cook aside the boy who knows how to cook could aid his mother very much when she did not happen to have a girl and when he grew to mans estate es-tate and became a man of family he wbuld often find his knowledge of cook I Ing of much value And evey boy who goes camping in the mountains and J t I every man who goes there prospecting will find a knowledge of how to cook I Invaluable Most boys know how to wash dIshes Why not go A step higher antl earn how to prepare the things that goon them Every man his own I cook Is much to be preferred to everyman every-man his own lawyer or his own doctor |