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Show A Lost Art in the Home. Some reported utterances of Archbishop Arch-bishop Ireland, provoked by the meat boycott, but dealing with a more important im-portant and fundamental matter, will strike sympathetic chords in many hearts and should lead to practical efforts ef-forts for the correction of a great evil of American domestic life. The high prices of meats are deplorable, but still worse, in Dr. Ireland's view, are the extravagance and waste of American Ameri-can housekeepers and their Ignorance of the neglected art of cooking. Nor is the reference solely to the rich, whose extravaganceis often descanted upon with all manner of variations and embellishments. People of moderate mod-erate and even scanty means are among the worst sinners. They do not know how to purchase economically, economical-ly, or do not care to do so, and they do not know how to make the best use of that which they do purchase. The same tendency which has led so many young men away from farms to overcrowded over-crowded professions or underpaid mercantile mer-cantile employment has led young women to shun the occupations of the home, and particularly of the kitchen, In favor of work in factories, shops or offices. New York Tribune. |
