Show Duchesses Learn to Cooko Cook V o As First Aid to Economy I LONDON LO Jan 14 By Universal Service Duch Duchesses as Duchesses as as members of the tho hew new poor poor are are learning to c cook ok for themselves Women V omen whose names occur In the pages of ot are to be found with increasing frequency enrolled among the students stude at the London cookery schools Reduction of ot household staffs starts the change to flat from house life and the necessity of ot having to cope with c domestic emergencies owing to the contra wise spirits of ot the modern cooks have been the means of ot leading many women who have never cooked before into tho the kitchen Investigation atlon at the leading domestic domes domes- tic service centers proved that many well known women from duchesses to wives of ot members of parliament are now taking cookery lessons but hut they are taking them in disguise Favorite Favorite Fa Fa- Fa- Fa dishes that have won special praise from the teachers are aI taken home borne by the novices after the first les les- son to be sampled In private No one knows except the teacher that the tall dark haired woman who is so patiently struggling with the rudiments of baking points and boiling puddings Is the wife of ot a prominent peer leer and that at the other end of the table the mystery of soup making Is being mastered rapidly by bv a women woman whose name is equally well known I There V are far more prominent women women wom worn en who are taking lessons now than there haye haY ever been before said the principal of or the national training school of ot cookery cooker but we make no nc distinction between them and our other other other oth oth- er students V and no one knows them but ourselves I had titled women in my class said Miss Evelyn Mercer who now teaches caches under the name of the Busy 13 liCe e. e but was formerly a teacher at V t the he national training school of cookery cook- cook V pry ery who had never been near a V kitchen before In their lives At first they were hopeless they did not hot know one article from the other but they showed aptitude and soon learned to cook Undoubtedly more prominent people people peo peo- pie who are arc usually not concerned with L kitchens and cookery are taking cookery cook ery lessons now said Mr Marshall whose mother was the founder of ot the famous cookery school and they ar are i 1 doing g so 50 because they want to know gf from f first hand knowledge kno where r the they can economize to best advantage In Ir I their own households They learn easily ily because they are keen on what the thes' are aro studying Woman cooks past pat and present who I have made a n. special sp study of cooking Include Kathleen Kathllen FalI Falmouth Fal- Fal I mouth Lady Helen Murray daughter I of the late Lord Brassey Lads Lad Chi chester and Lady Coutts Burdett-Coutts |