Ethel Morton at Chautauqua

ate. When they had first come to Chautauqua the year before a s

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inquiries and was able to complete arrangements so satisfactory that

e, and in the next she wanted to teach Dorothy something about cooking, for she believed that every girl ought to know something of this importan

b," she had said, "and then we can have our little home h

d Dorothy become in simple cooking that this sum

her mother came in from the art store at noon the day after the fir

t may be valuable to you in

bout my friends at the Girls' Club, t

here do they live?" said Mrs. Smith, spea

fathers' names-their

back in her chair as if

cottage that was

e of them that brought a little boy to th

call hi

, Di

have blue ey

, yes, I believe I

the club because they had so much to do to put their new cottage in order, but Ethel Brown ran in just for a minute t

poor

y he's bruised and he swallowed a lot of smok

t they

so scared yesterday that he's almost sick to-day and keeps calling for Mary all the time. So M

ant you to

e older sister doesn't do it. They want me to make broths a

It will be a splendid chance for

I went to their house after the club and got a tray and a small bowl and some plate

om where the low-turned flame of a gas plate w

cold water, didn't you,

ouldn't be wasted. A quart and a pint of water covered it well and it's going to stay on un

ing to put

parate little bowl this time because I d

er-cook it. Every gra

when it boils up again you give it just one stir to keep the kernels from sticking to the bottom of the saucepan. You mustn't stir it any more or you'll break the grains. It wil

ater it serves as a veg

me in India and some of the natives went to the English and said that if they cou

n't want more than a cupful of chicken broth this af

e beaten yolks of two eggs and a pinch of salt. Y

aste good and be

der form. After that has boiled about fifteen minutes I shall strain it through a piece of cheesecloth into a cup and when

ut use up the broth

. A quart of cold water to a pound of meat is the right

you can before you put it in, and to skim

adays that there isn't much nourishment in it, it's just stimulating. I shall give my pati

and put into it a dab of butter and a teaspoon of cream and a wee bit of salt, and a dash of pep

have to make more chicken broth I shall cut off th

ve, add a tiny dab of butter and a little salt. Do the same with a lamb chop, and be sure

m it, though. Those bits that

ng you must try for one o

ve fruits mostly, but I'd l

the tapioca in the water for four hours. Stir in the sugar just as you put it all in the double boiler. Cook it for about three-quarters of an hour.

I think I'll try it for o

wards brown them delicately. When you make milk toast butter the slices and sprinkle on a few grains of salt and then pour over them a cupful of boiling mil

flowers to-day, so I shall h

d that you are having this opportunity to show tha

when I made the bas

to learn things that will be valuable to you. I mean valuable in

er mother's lap and ma

smaller all the time. Last winter I didn't make quite enough at the art store to support us bo

r you're all ri

and when the season ends here I don't know where we shall go or what I

or Ethel's grandfather I won't be scar

't. Every success

ly unhealthy neighborhood and I could make invalid

mith l

always have faith that work of some sort will be given to us.

e booth in the pergola the other da

and energy without scatteration of mind an

another that she meant to ask her cooking teacher about. She knew that she had only to tell her teacher that she was putting her inform

ess of her cooking it was gone when she went in to Mr. Emerson's room to

shall want to be a king and engage you for my personal cook even after I get well. I th

ays attractive. She never used the same cup and saucer twice in succession; at the shop in the business block she found funny little jelly molds f

she found there bowls of many patterns, the odds a

riumph. There was always a bit of parsley or watercress or a tender leaf

n he regretfully dismissed his cook with a roll of crisp bills in her capable hand. "I want