Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 291, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1912 — BRIDES’ LESSONS IN COOKING [ARTICLE]

BRIDES’ LESSONS IN COOKING

Young Women Taught How to Be'come Good Housewives for Twelve Cents. V^pnna. —Twelve-cent "• lessons for brides Is Vienna’s latest effort to turn out efficient housewives. The lessons are known as the Brautkurse (course for ladles), and are given at the Vienna Urania, a sort of people’s university subsidized by the minister of education. Some idea of how thorough and farreaching are the lectures may be gathered from the following list of subjects: s . ■ The housewife In the kitchen. - Winter and summer foods. How to guard the family health. ' Care of the teeth. Dress and fashion. .1 Cosmetics. How a woman should look after her body. - 1* The bringing up of the children. The mother as her children’s first te&cfier. How can a woman guard herself from being overcharged when making purchases. Woman’s place in the home.* Woman’s position In regard to servants.