Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1910 — CUPELS TO EAT OWN COOKING. [ARTICLE]

CUPELS TO EAT OWN COOKING.

New Rule Expected t 9 Make Work for Xcm Jersey Fhraldaaa. - Schoolgirls taking up the course 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 reqplt wttlbtfls a question. It is claimed that soma scholars who study domestio 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 pupilß were only compelled to taste their own cooking. and then make a report of the value. Now, if a scholar makes six biscuits she will have to eat them all or suffer a penalty to be fixed later. - 8onj» 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 made by the attending physiclans. Numerous cases of indigestion have been reoprted among the bqys because of some of the “eatables” turned out by the girls. One boy recently admitted to several chums that he almost dlsd while eating a mince pie forced on him by one of the girls, but boasted he was willing to “die for her.”