fetaure in taking lessons of your mother. There is an absolutely splendid feeling of in dependence in knowing how to make per feotly light, sweet, substantial bread. Then try your hand at biscuits, muffins, corn bread, toast, and all the different forms into which breadstuff's may be blended. Toast •eems a simple thing enough, but id fre quently so poorly made that it does not de •«rv« the name. Toast, a necessity of the pick room, is often a hopeless mystery to women who have the vaguest idea of how it il evolved from the raw material. After you hare mastered the bread question, try meats an! vegetables. Any bright girl who oan oomprehend an equation, or formulate a syl logism, oan overcome the difficulties which be*set her when learning to 000k. Lucent •yrupa, golden cuke, delicately browned bread, quivering jellies, melting creams, and the whole set of material things glorified, beoauae made for love's sake, and for the good of one's dear ones, are fit expressions for any woman. The charm of this accomplish ment lies in the fact that it imparts to its owner a gratifying sense of power, it bestows on her, too, the power of blessing and rest- Ing those she loves best. Wherever the cook goei she takes her welcome along. One may tire of the sweetest singing, of the loveliest poetry, 1 of the finest painter, and of the most witty conversation, but of good cooking, never. But I would be sorry to have you. contented to be only a cook, only a domestic machine. This is not my meauing or inten tion. '. Bo artist, poet, Inventor, and well bred woman ; be the most and the best that you oan, and add, as a matter of course, ability to keep house well and to do all that good housekeeping includes.
