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Show DOMESTIC DEVELOPMENT. We are pleased to see that cooking cook-ing schools are becoming fashionable, and we hope that from being fashionable fashion-able they wdl grow to be considered indispensable, both in what tbey are and in what they teach. Wben girls who desire to be accomplished learn that there is a much tiuer opportunity rorart in tbe possibilities ot an omelet ome-let than there is in a pickle jar with transferred pictures, they will turn their thnuehu nd atlcC'iona lo omelets. ome-lets. When the crand tru"h dawns upon them lhat it take-i more ekill to make a good soup than a worsted ebawl, the larger accomplishment will naturally be striven l.,r. When it becomes a social fiat thai white, light and sweet bread is more to be deeired than all the luce "tidhV that were ever invented, white bread will appear upon every table, or the, daughter of ihe buue wnl hide her i head with shame. In those happy ' timea it will be no more ol a disgrace to have flaky dough un!er liie nails than it is now to have art i-t paint on I . the hacds, or 1 t-r.ry ink on I he I finger?, though the dtuh w'.ll be Ies-m. apt to find an abidiu,: p!..ee, Lr neat-j ue.-s is likely to te the Lndrnaid ol nii.leuuial cjAtrry. U i! ah tho same Lue urta of the bocsMhu:! will be aria etill, however aiLt'ii tne evidences may be lacking after tlie artist leaves her omelet or pat try studio. Tne tendency of l::e Lime U Inward an infdjion f'f more practical knowledge knowl-edge into the tdociliuus lh.it tne young men and w.'Jinea are receiving. Industrial education by "developing schools" or by other scbols that will ; accomplish ttiHsamo results H one of the best idt-aa thai has ever been iu-j troriuctd into our tdueatioual sys'-em, ' aud we hops it will crow over tlie win 1 k-ugtu and bieiuitb of the lai.d,j so tnat botn principles nud practice sh;ill have a much butter acq'.iaiuLttnce , than tbey have ever enjojod befjre. The cooking school ia a part of Ihe j development, school idea, though it has, we believe, never been included in ' any attempt to but d up a -yslem. Its' importance ttu hardly be overeat i mat- ed. Upon its growth and successful results depend the digestion and' health of ihe people of thia nation.! Upon ihe popular riigetliou depend I the wisdi m or t lly of legislation, tho beauty ot nrt, philosophy and the o'.pgy, and ia not a tew instances, ! perhaps, according to the old schools , of doctrines, our eternal ealvalion. I By -ill means, let Ihe girli be taught' how to cook, and not only that but to I like the business, aa ihey will when j ithcy leuru its true importance and. ihe power it ives all who thoroughly understand it. Tbe old idea that hapuy homes aro hugely dependant on good cooking may be rather hackneyed, hack-neyed, but the truth there is in it has kept it ulive aud in common uso. The queen upon her throne ohould . understand how to cook a steak t;o ' thai a king may well dub it sir; loin, and tho same is true ot all j grades down to the peasant Boston j iSlatesnriit. |
