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Show CHAT In her opinion every housekeeper house-keeper should take a courso of instruction at a cooking school. She declares that she Is more iand more moved to protest against the utter lack of training Tor tholr positions that most wives have. Thoy know a little French and some Latin, can parse and spell and "do" examples exam-ples In arithmetic and algebra.' but when it comes to making out a properly prop-erly balanced menu for dinner, one j with the calories and othor food principles prin-ciples In proper proportions, they arc utterly at sea. Their Idea of a perfect I meal Is to have one green vegetable and ono starchy one. That Is the cx I tent of their knowledge on the sub Jcct. Moro than that, when they are forced to cook for themselves they accomplish ac-complish with great striving and much pain and trouble tasks which a llttlo Instruction would havo rendered easy ! to them. THAT In very many American households the great mass of food is fried and so rendered greasy and Indigestible, In-digestible, and that the waste Is enormous enor-mous In tho homes of the well-to-do and oven of the poor. THE YOUNG HOUSEKEEPER thinks evory girl, no matter how wealthy her' family, should havo somo practical training In domestic science. She realizes that she Is not giving vent to a very original idea when she says that, since most of the public schools of our cities now have such classes, but the fact remains that the great mass of girls who go to private schools and colleges have no such advantage. As a matter of fact housekeeping Is a lost art. How few good housekeepers housekeep-ers thorc arc today compared with the number In ante-bellum times, ladles i who carried a jingling bunch of keys ' u In a little basket, and who gavo out , every particle of food used In the P) household, then locked tho pantry do- . fci flanlly and unlocked it no moro until j K tho next morning though tho skies fj fell. j, . No ono locks up sugar and flour and eg. such things now; It is too much w trouble. Moro than that, half of the K so-called housekeepers of tho day do 1 not know what Is in their refrlgera- tA tors, and so really valuable- left-overs j;J mould and waste, or aro thrown out V without anyono being tho wiser. :j Tho Young Housekeeper attributes J. the decrease of interest in housckeep- ; Ing things In part to tho agitation for - a vote. She argues, however, that 'L long after the women are In proud ". possession of tho ballot they will have to cater for their families and so housekeeping has a more endurln? ; claim on girls even than the struggle for that magic piece of paper. : Women, sho says, havo come to look down on housekeeping as rather I a menial profession, whereas It i i really the most important ono In the world; so important that it taki- training in order to do It well. More ,EI over, at least three hours a day shou' i f- be given to it, and If sho gives It tin V- much the housekeeper is still carnln, L- hcr living cheaply. jf. |