COOKERY SCHOOL WRECKED MARRIAGES

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 14, 16 July 1936, Page 19

COOKERY SCHOOL

WRECKED MARRIAGES

VARIETY GF PUPILS

TEN MINUTES' APPLAUSE

MISTRESSES & MAIDS | Only a few hours after she had been j treated by Sir ■ Milsom Rees, the Through the enterprise of two young laryngologist, Mine. Kirsten Flagstad, Englishwomen, a novel cooking school the Norwegian soprano, made her Enghas been set up in the heart of fashion- ' lish debut on May 19 at the Royal able London which has revolutionised . Opera House, Covent Garden, states the meals served in scores of West End ■ the. London "Daily Telegraph " houses, states an Englislr exchange. I During the five hours of Wagner's The stolid, rather heavy recipes that I "Tristran and Isolde," in which she have been the backbone of British | took the part of Isolde, Sir Milsom menus for generations, have given ; remained in the audience, ready with way to the more artistic and more ; throat sprays should her voice break palatable dishes that are served in Con-! down. She was stated to be suffering tinental homes. Now the fame of this j from a cold, but Sir Milsom said there "Ecole dv Petit Cordon Bleu" has : was no affection of the throat, gained such respect that its classes are ' After the first act Mme. Flagstad and booked up for weeks in advance, May- j Mr. Lauritz Melchior received a tref air mistresses filling its kitchens in the I mendous ovation. They were cheered morning, and Mayfair maids and cooks for some minutes and took nine curcoming for the afternoon sessions. . tain calls. At the end of the d

More than 2500 pupils have passed through the hands of the two instructors, Miss Rosemary Hume and Mrs. Dione Lucas. They have given some only a few lessons which have opened up the fascinating range and combination of food served on French tables. Others they have trained to a standard which gives them the school's diploma —something which is not lightly or easily attained, for, to gam it, the pupil has to practise at home, has to reach a standard of proficiency which would get her a position as a chef in a high-class hotel or restaurant, and has to pass a stiff examination set by the principals of the school.

Probably there is no organisation in England which has such a variety of pupils passing through its doors. Titled women and servants frequent the "Cordon Bleu," and both go away feeling that they have got an insight into the | true cookery of France, which is so seldom found in England. For it is the aim of the school to make this' cookery more widely known, and to rescue our "breakfast, lunch, and dinner" from becoming dull and uninspired. ; FKENCH MENUS. French cooking, the instructors will assure you is not rich, greasy, and expensive, although this is the idea current among most English housewives. Instead, it is unfailingly simple, and the menus are arranged so that they present a balanced meal, healthy in that they supply all the necessary vitamins, tasty because the French have the art of making their dishes savoury, and satisfying without being heavy and indigestible.

Classes go ahead quickly with their syllabus at the "Cordon Bleu," mainly because each instructor copes with only six pupils'at a time, and after demonstrating and dictating the recipe, each member of the class makes the particular dish herself. The menus also receive amazing individual attention and thought, as there is nothing like the ordinary stereotyped curriculum at this school.

For instance, a group of wealthy, titled women would learn how to make dishes that incorporate luxuries. Cooks coming from these same types of homes, with their expenses paid by their mistresses, would also discover how to make the more ambitious types of dishes. .

But the young married woman with a moderate housekeeping allowance learns economy first, and suitable recipes are dictated to her so that she will have no urge to forge ahead of the sum put aside to provide the week's meals.

INTERFERING RELATIVES

More marriages are wrecked by interfering relatives, and especially by mothers-in-law, than from any other cause. That is the opinion of Dr. Alice E. Johnson, social expert to the Municipal Court of Philadelphia, who has investigated 10,000 cases of domestic unhappiness, states an exchange. Apart from family squabbling, she says, there are five other main reasons for shipwrecked homes. They are: Different social and home background in the upbringing of the man and wife. Infidelity. Incompatibility of temperament. Drink. The desire to dominate.

"The young woman who cannot leave her mother has no business to be married," asserts Dr. Johnson. And she adds: "The young man who takes the adyice of his parents and his brothers and sisters in preference to that-of his wife cannot possibly be a satisfactory husband."

Dr. Johnson believes that the vast number of differences between husbands and wives never reach dimensions which make them irremediable