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Show Cooking Is Study Course; I Marriage License. Diploma j It'a coming! That happy day when fha marriage llcena clerk will receive a finely hand wrnught blacult or allca of layer cake from tha young lady at tha moment when her f lance paeeea In hla driollar In return for tha preciou document! The girl who can't cook a whole-aome whole-aome meal - for a family ahould ha denied a dlflomm from the grammar gradee and hi ah school, and ref uaed a marrlaga Hcenae! j We would not think much of a' man who married a girl before he was! able to aupport her. That a no -rae ; than for a girl to marry before aha Is able tn manege a home and cook three square meala a dav. ft la tha wlfe'a bus'neaa to make and keen the hum which trie huahand'a earning prnv! dee. If a girl en n not cook ahe cannot make a reel home, and mi-M ry be refuaed a llcenae to marry at alt. This la the firm on) n Ion of Alfred i P. Fletcher, vocational director of the! nubllo achoola of Cleveland. O.. and It haa the heart v indorsement of aeveral million bridegroome, preaent and ftitufre. But Individual hrlderrooma are aad. wl-e and helnlesa and M r. Fletcher Isn't. He's going tn aee to It that all girl areduatea of Cleveland achoola are equally accompllahed In kitchen and rmrlor. and he la going to give (school credit toward dlnlomaa for h(me aeeeion with the kitchen atov. Kvery mother of a girl In the upper rrdee n hih achool received a note, from "teacher" requesting that aha elve aid and encouragement to the! "nw d-nnet"ton of leaaona taught In fha domestic aclenca el as aee at i achool. "Too manv girla think thev know ail about cooking when they're full of information about calorie and food elancea end all that." aald Mr. i pitcher "The only test of a good co,k her t-ooklng. Kvery girl ahould ! be able to nrnsre an ample, whole J some, v-! cooked meal. To have that Inhil'tv the cirls elm pi v must get right Into tir o'n borne kitchen to prac- tlce thev leam at achool. "t'nt.l lefelv 'girle In our cooking J claaar.4 hive learned to prenare one- i quarter rrt?me of an ordinary re-) cine. That'a wrbnev In actual home) life tha wife cook for a family not j for a fourth of one. person. Be Idea, tha home cooking practice wa are going to let tha girla do actual quantity quan-tity cooking thla year. Tha achool lunchrooms hava previously been conducted con-ducted by paid cooka and manager. Now they will ba run by tha teacher of domestlo aclenca and their claaaea. and the girla will learn to cook and aerva a wholeaoma meal coating; lift , centa or lesa for each person. They I will alao ha taught tha economical ae lection of food and have leaaona In practical marketing. "And what they get la not only tha necessary training in cooking family meala," Mr. Fletcher polnta out. "A ! girl experienced In marketing and ! large quantity conking, as tha girla I taught In our lunchrooma will be, ia quHliried to take a well paying position posi-tion aa aooa aa she graduates. |