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Show I MILITIA OFFICERS SHY AT COOKING They bo Not Take Kindly to the Idea of Making Biscuits and Pies. WASHINGTON, Oct. 7. Why . do militia officers sby at receiving: instructions in-structions in baking biscuits and pro during pies, an acquisition that the war department stands ready to supply? sup-ply? This is the question the division off militia affairs today is soeking vainly vain-ly lo answer. Although congress has supplied funds for such instruction for vears past, militia officers have evinced no desire to take up the rolling pin in defense of their country. The department maintains army schools for bakers and cooks, in which it is designed to instruct officers in the art of cooking with a view to their teaching thc men under the command and supervising intelligently the cooking cook-ing of food in the field. The militia officers have balked at the proposal, however, and the department militia officials to attend such schools. sidc from an ability to knead dough, the military requirements demand de-mand that a building officor-cook "must be o sound health and of good moral character.' ' Incidentally in setting forth the requirements re-quirements the militia divisions bar officers of-ficers above the rank of colonel. The. appciil for officer-cooks, however, is genuine. |