Cooking A Culture

Soine claim that if the entire thought is not given to each minute, tbe bread will be burned or heavy; the linen scorched; the vegetables half-cooked, and the steak parboiled instead of broiled. In reply to this assertion, I offer a few practical examples: Mrs. Stowe assures us she wrote"Unclo Toni 's Cabiiv' while attending to her bread. Marion Harland (ilrs. Terhune), the wife of the pastor of the First Congregational Church, in Springfield, Mass., planned the architecture of their oivn home, and, althongh shohad amas sed a large fortuno by her peD, she is described by a recent guest as "a model wife and mother." While her paintings adorn the walls, and the f urniture is decorated by her own hands, her kitchen is the crown of her home, for in this she is queen and she afflrms the more a woman knona the better housekeeper, wife and mother she can be. With all these occupations, she has a class of forty young men in her husband's Sunday-school, whioh numbers 500. Rose Terry Cooke, in her oldfashioned country home at Winsted, Conu., is equally famous as a cook and a poet. She not only writes charming poems about her garden, bufc is up before sunrise to work in it. Her roses