Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1902 — A First Lesson In Cookery. [ARTICLE]

A First Lesson In Cookery.

There were seventy-five disappointed but determined young women when the first class in cooking was dismissed at the new School of Domestic Arts and Science the other day. It was the inaugural day of the school. Many of them were society girls, fresh from college, and they had come with visions of the chafing dish concoctions they would learn to manufacture. Some had hopes of standing at the head of the first cooking class because of their knowledge in the line of Welsh rabbits and omelets.

The first question Miss Isabel D. Bullard, instructor in cookery, asked them was this: “How can you tell when water boils ?” There was deep silence. Finally one young woman of practical experience in the kitchen answered: “When it bubbles.” “Not at all,” said Miss Bullard. “That is a popular delusion. Boiling water is a question of temperature and 212 degrees F. is the boiling point.” As the lesson progressed chafing dish suppers seemed to become more and more remote, and the students found they were in the kindergarten of cookery and that the road upward was a long if floury one.—Chicago Tribune. Men’s suits made to order by the most practical, economical, up-to-date men tailors. No sweat shop make, but made by M. Borne & Co., Chicago, for the Chicago Bargain Store. Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Honan celebrated their 20th wedding aniversary last Saturday evening. Guests to the number of about a hundred were present. The guests from out of town were Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Mitchell, of Los Angeles, Cal., Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Ryan, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Ryan and Miss Julia Honan, of Delphi, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Vanatta, of Fowler.