Show ila IV df d f wa c t nele neloa aed tied by western newspaper union valentine to U S women N FEBRUARY 14 1842 a bos 1303 0 ON ionian named corson and his wife presented a valentine to the tha women of america although at the time they had no way of knowing they had done so for on that date tile the carsons corsons became the parents of a daughter to whom they gavi gave the name of juliet and it was this little 9 girl irl who was destined to establish the first ars cooking school and thereby have a far reaching effect upon jhb diet of future generations not only of americans but of people all over the world juliet carsons corsons Cor sona sons parents moved to now new york when she was six years old and because she was a sickly child and denied the joy of taking part in most childrens pastimes she became an avid reader and devoted most of her time to her studies forced to make her own living at the age vw V w tea of 20 sho she became librarian of af the working library tor for which she was paid 4 a week however she raised that to 9 by writing a weekly article for the new york leader this led to her be being ing asked to prepare the semiannual semi annual index of the national quarterly review and later to her becoming a member of the editorial staff of that publication in those days most americans still believed that place Is in the home and the nearest thing to a career open to them was employment as aa a seamstress in order to make them more efficient in this occupation miss corson in 1873 started in her own home a free training school for the young women of new york city the school grew so rapidly that she was forced to seek larger quarters and these were provided by wheeler and wilson manufacturers of sewing machines in their building they lent machines for the use of the school as did other manufacturers and within a year more than 1000 girls had been taught how to sew and at least three fourths of them immediately found employment trained stenographers by this time miss corson had also added stenography and bookkeeping to the tha curriculum of her school and soon afterwards began giving training for domestic service As her school grew she took a large house used the top floor as a dormitory tor for her students the tha first floor tor for class rooms where sewing laundering and other household work was taught and the basement tor for a kitchen where meals were served at cost to many girls employed in the neighborhood out of the latter grew her bellel belief that diet can make men strong or weak intelligent or stupid and she began her lifework life work of teaching both the rich and the poor the pro proper per way to prepare foods she did this through public lectures and through artic articles les which she wrote tor for the newspapers in 1876 miss corson established in new york a cooking school for ladles ladies the first ot of its kind in america and within a short time 1000 women W 0 men w were ere receiving instruction there annually she charged rich women high fees to attend the school but asked only 50 cents a lesson from women ot of the middle class and gave instruction tree free to poor girls the next year during the railroad strikes when there was great distress among the poorer classes she wrote a valuable little book afif teen cent Dinners for workingmen 3 families it cost 00 00 to print anc and I 1 distribute this booklet free of charge to workingmen earning 1 50 it a day or less but all but of tills this sum was provided by miss corson out of the earnings from her school incidentally her booklet was translated into several foreign languages and soon had a worldwide world wide circulation it was a boon to the poor peo people pie ol oi every nation after the success of this booklet miss corson became a lecturer on diet and founded many other cooking schools she also began campaigning pai gning for tho the introduction of the study of cooking into tho the public schools and because of this she was asked by the united states commissioner of education to prepare a dietary tor for schools which was published and distributed by the dopart department part ment ot of tho the interior her long career of usefulness especially to the laboring classes came to an end with her death in 1897 another claim to fame another of juliet corsons carsons Cor sons claims claim to fame rests upon her pioneer work in preparing concentrated foods tor for soldiers and explorers and medicated foods for invalids at uie the chicago worlds fair of 1893 she was the only person who was given an award for scientific cookery and sanitary dietetics she was also chosen as a member of the committee oi of judges of food products at the exposition was vaa twice elected to that position and was finally asked to servo serve permanently |