Show militiamen spurn departments plea to be cooks W ASHINGTON Bis biscuits cults and pies these two delightful edibles are proving obstacles I 1 8 beem EI to the united BATTY states war department 1 TOOK bp THIS part ment and it coo COOKi Kirl rf DEER all comes of the efforts of the authorities ties to get brave and gallant militiamen iuler inter metod in the art of cooking recently congress supplied funds to be used in instructing militia officers in the art of mixing dough and preparing pie crust so fco it could be cut with an ordinary knife war department heads expected their action would meet with popular approval and that the militiamen would crowd one another in their haste to take up domestic science they were sadly mistaken not a single officer volunteered in fact was a marked hesitancy on tho the part of the men to become cooks schools for bakers and cooks maintained by the war department with fth a view to teaching the men sanitary food values have gone without pupils as a consequence much speculation as to the attitude of the militia officers has been indulged in by tho the department heads with little satisfaction somo some havo have ventured the opinion that four flour and dough might soil their glistening uniforms and the fact that they are emi aloyed in the kitchen might lessen their majesty in front of the fair sex at social ex events crits the government as an inducement has offered to keep secret the list of men who apply for kitchen instruction and as to the other objection aprons would of course be provided while the pupil mixes dough aside from the ability to mix flour and water the militar 5 requirements for entrance to the biscuit college demand that a budding 0 officer cook must be of sound health and good moral character incidentally in setting forth the requirements the militia division bars officers above the rank of colonel the appeal for officer cooks however is genuine and if there is is any militia member in cleveland who Is in anxious to ecel in the finest art the world lias has known confer a favor upon a perplexed u war ar department and N write rite at once |