Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1910 — PUPILS TO EAT OWN COOKING. [ARTICLE]

PUPIL S TO EAT OWN COOKING.

New Rale Kxpected to Make Work for New Jersey Physicians. s '■ - Schoolgirls taking up the courses of domestic science at the Carrol Robbins school will be compelled to eat what They cook hereafter, because of the belief of the instructors that this will force the scholars to exercise more care and pay more attention to instructions, a Trenton (N. J.) correspondent of the New York Evening Telegram says. Just what the result will be is a question. It is claimed that some scholars who study domestic science only take the course as a pastime and make all sorts of uneatable things just to pass the time away. It is feared that the new ruling will provide more work for local physicians and the hospitals. The course is compulsory at this particular school. Heretofore the pupils were only compelled to taste their own eooking and then make a report of the value. Now, if a scholar jnakes six biscuits she will have to eat them all or suffer a penalty to be fixed later. a Some good-sized schoolboys have suffered as a result of pranks played on them by the girls in the' domestic science department. “Eat this biscuit, aJmes; I just ’ made it in school,” was responsible for a boy scholar’s, who thought this girl was the “only, only,” having to spend a week in a local hospital. Gastritis of an acute nature was the record made by the attending physicians. Numerous cases of indigestion have been reoprted among the boys because of some of the "eatables” turned out by the girls. One boy recently admitted to several chums that he almost died while eating a mince pie forced on him by one of the girls, but boasted he was willing to "die for her.”