Show KA KATHLEEN NORRIS Beauty Doesn't t Help a Bad Cook MANY ANY GIRLS when they marry know mow nothing of the fine art of cookery The chances are they have had French lessons but dont don't speak any language but their own that much money has been spent on music lessons but practice abandoned abandoned abandoned aban aban- years ago that if they have had any lessons In cooking these lessons essons were given in classes and embraced such essential dishes as fudge sauce and ca ca- napes Or else they are arc taught by chart and instructed as to the chemical elements of potatoes and asparagus asparagus asparagus gus and the exact time in hi which a 7 pound 7 roast is cooked with an nn oven at degrees Fahrenheit These statistics naturally mean nothing to the group of ot pretty girls whose immediate concern is their heir hair their lip-color lip and their next date But American girls are arc smart adaptable proud Most of ot them learn earn to be good cooks in hi those infatuated infatuated in infatuated in- in weeks that follow tollow marriage marriage marriage mar mar- when beauty youth and love cast a over burned white sauce and crab meat that has been mindedly absent-mindedly left too long in the sun on the back porch and by the time Jim begins to grow a little critical of his meals Nancy has become become become be be- come a really good cook The days of waste and extravagance extravagance extravagance gance and burning and spilling are over Nancy moves capably about her kitchen her spattered cookbook cook cook- book jook open at the mushroom dressing dressing dressing dress dress- ing or the lemon pudding Jim likes and her economical eye already fixed on the refrigerators refrigerator's contents with plans for tomorrow Innocent Questions So perhaps It isn't necessary that hat Mother take her engaged daughter Into the kitchen some v 7 t r 1 t 1 s 's sY rY t 4 l af l 1 t learn tarn to 10 he oe good cooks weeks before the wedding and terrify terrify terrify ter ter- her with lectures on the burdens burdens burdens bur bur- dens of ot housekeeping of how to judge a naked chickens chicken's tenderness tenderness tenderness tender tender- ness in the market or prevent fungus from rom forming on bread Nancys Nancy's Innocent questions as to why decayed almost ducks and mouldy Roquefort cheese are considered considered considered con con- delicacies and the slightest slight slight- est suggestions of age in eggs is regarded regarded regarded re re- re- re with horror will answer themselves long before she can price ducks of 01 or Roquefort and as soon as she tastes an addled egg Her equally naive demand in the market for a hind shoulder of ot lamb or her comment that no wonder French chops are expensive if it they have to come all that distance will only be made once It was a bride years ago who asked her dinner guests If it the eggs of ot flies tIles were go good d eating They looked so clean and white on the fish she said before she had baked It Even though the answer of ot her choking elders was an amiable negative I remember that we allate all allate allate ate the fish fish closing our eyes ees minds and sensibilities It was her main course and she had baked her own pr pretty tty face watching It Good Meals Important But even if It Mother hasn't been teaching her to cook since her seventh year and doesn't feel up to it in all the wedding flurry I sincerely sincerely sincerely sin sin- do believe that every girl should be impressed and by long reminder all through her girlhood that cooking is no joke Good meals are extremely Im Im- all through the long years of marriage A man comes home grimy tired and hungry from the theoffice theoffice office ottice and the prettiest wife in the world i it if she closes her magazine as he comes cones In the door yawns lifts her face for a kiss and exclaims exclaims exclaims ex ex- ex- ex claims Oh It isn't six Goodness Well what would you like I have havethe havethe havethe the cold pot roast pot roast Mama brought and there are artichokes How long longdo longdo longdo do they cook Or there are eggs Or we could go downtown is risking rIsking risking risk rIsk- ing the security of her marriage It may not come to actual jeopardy for months but it is In danger from the start Bless them said the fond mother of one bride if U Thelma cant can't cook Will can always take her downtown to dinner But that's not the same thing Men dont don't come home just to be told to freshen up and change that shirt were we're going to the Clifton Husbands dont don't bring bachelor friends home only to inform them that the little woman has decided that well we'll have our cocktails here and then go somewhere There are moods of office discouragement discourage dIscourage- ment or tedium or failure when just the effort to select that somewhere somewhere somewhere some where is wearying As for the guest he is so of ot printed menus and choice of and the price of the entree Over that downtown dinner table In one of the long waits quarreling starts The man may not be smart enough to know that tha this his wife has failed him the wife herself may not dream it But failure to take home comfort good hot meals a dainty table home fires and home welcome seriously Is a great mis mIs- take Men can run away from the pos- pos of the pretty face But a man doesn't run away when his dream of love and welcome a happy din din- dinner dinner dinner ner table with a happy woman opposite opposite op op- him comes true |