26, 1886.

I have been to see an exhibition of a cooking school.

I found sixteen girls in the basement of a school-house.

They had long tables, across which stretched a line of gas-stoves and jets of gas.
Some of the girls were using saucepans; they set them upon the stove, and then sat down where they could see a clock while the boiling process went on.
"At one table a girl was cutting out doughnuts; at another a girl was making a pudding--a layer of bits of bread followed by a layer of fruit.
Each girl had her rolling-pin, and moulding-board or saucepan.
"The chief peculiarity of these processes was the cleanliness.

The rolling-pins were clean, the knives were clean, the aprons were clean, the hands were clean.