The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 11, 1899, Page 26

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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL SUNDAY, JUNE 11, A gy The Sleeping Mother. d, just brought from Pz deal of public attention ng by Miss Clara McChesney of ( First Schoof for Nurseru Maids farted by dan Francisco Boston Has Just Lald Clalm to the Honor, but the School Here Speaks for Itself. ebellious Babies Handjed by the Girl Students. z directorate and hospit a rles M. Patton (1 tebbins, rginia W. ants—Henry Gibbons C. von Hoffman, M.D., Will M.D., D. W. Montgomer irector of nurses—Miss I W tendent. Is Woman a Fail- ure as a Cook? Many are the arguments volubly em- )yed nowadays which make for prov- g the eternal superiority of the ete nal feminine. Mentally, intellectually, morally, spiritually and otherwise we hear of her (from herself) as a being set apart, away from and overhead the opposing and decadent gender, whom in her gre: strength of numbers she would now force into the novel attitude of a conquered combatant How is it that woman, while occupied in waving her flag of independence so vium in Aj busily from the battlements, should yet be obliged to cede first place even in the basement to mere man, and that, while ambitioning the ler, she should not be petent cook? e Did woman ever thoroughly grasp or nd_recently an Overn the great art of Brillat-Savarin, x has been or Ude, or Francatelli, or Grimaud de la Reyniere, or a hundred others besides, the creators of ancient, medieval or modern epicureanism? As chatelaine or h frau we know her; as a chef how often? And why? Physically and mentally, she is un- ted for the various labors that at- tend the man cook’s way while gradu- ating from Kkitchen boy to cordon bleu. e moves upward by degrees as a re- sult of his thorough course of training, ascending the stairs of culinary promo- tion through ciub, college, hotel or man- sion, appl knowledge, extending ex- post of control- altogether com- ler one th these oppe perience at esich. ral Woman, with less artistic instinct ) pledge herself to and industry, generally finishes her and for the career where she began it— st not her servic tru ) covers a 3, the first of which @ Moving from one ‘“place” her ambition rarely takes flights than unlimited beer and itchen maid. The natural indifference of her sex to for of in st month i 0 obation. At the end of the 3 1 dircctors of nurses - will _ de- food of fine flavor is also against her, i “the of applicants to re- IOF, Whether cook . or countess, the o gourmet is never developed in a woman boarded ‘and lodged at the i ’5,:",‘““, TR e e ol g practical training, the ordinary woman operator has, moreover, little ot none; she experiments on a long serieg of suffering households until a_super- ficial juste milieu is arrived at—her mistress in the ‘butterfly period be- tween school and marriage, s thought of other things than creating future menus, with the obvious and everyday result of mutual incompetency. Men, it must be remembered, have, moreover, always treated the gentle art of gastronomy more as a profession than as a menial office. ' When in groat 1 houses or colleges, clubs or hotels, the modern chef of to-day receives a han, some income, but in feudal England his salary represented ten times its modern equivalent, not to mention lucrative patronage and the ultimate prospect of a gift of lands. And it was this munifi- cent manner of treating it that caused men of birth and family to frequently enter what in olden times was treated as an honorable profession. But In tracing the progress of woman through the history of the table, from earliest times, it remains abundantly :nsation Is made for ts and c i 1s fo. at night 10 prep ait- nd to care for children and clothing. The need of trut part and-the great crim htening children are firmly im- ssed upon them. They are taught w kind of stories to tell their young charge and how to play kindergarten games w them. they are giv plain sews, en lessons g and ns are found for the s before they graduate, and the for the thoroughly trained young nan is go great that there is no diffi- ty about getting nlaces. Many girls have become convinced that it Is better for the children in a well-regu- lsted household-than to stand beind & ccunter all day at §5 or even §6 per weck. nd to care to New Yo evident after tb she hs that she w fly with acce: ry which ancient lates of the Amphi- 1 to the Bignons or Benoists of our times and more refined though not re complex methods.— of the the coal- area of about re miles. The d @ quarter sq CHOOL States, Ohlva, rlla, and In- ch the area of © country. - coal than any other peo- cvery inhabitant of seventy-four hundred- al annually. The Belgians to us in this respect with an wal ~onsumption of forty-four hindredweight ner inbabitant, Great Bri ght of next 1899. Her Pictures Accepted By the Famous Paris Salon Success of “The Sleeping Mother,” One of the Canvases of Miss McChesney of Oakland. Her Paintings Will Be Exhibited in New York. 2D by artistic Paris one of the ment and dignity. “The Old Cobbler” 1s atest woman artists of America, z one, and “Cinderella” is another. admitted yearly to the coveted 1d Fidc is full of real feel- lon, Miss ( McChesney, a ing, and shows an old man holding a young painter of whom California violin lov s in his trembling hands as may well be proud, has all but softly ws bow across the reached the top rung of a ladder in her > happy and upturned. art 7 is in America for a few Four thousand pictures were submitted weeks of re 1d change. She may re- by artists from all over the world to t main Jxposition of judges, the number of canvases corre- mmer will be spent in eponding almost to the number ATLis! 1 be, as far as pos- Out of this great number only 0 . wel work were the two selected; and in these vw\ its in w. colors and uses as offered by Miss McChe A double ocel concierge of the hot tribute to her genius. where she is stopping or the bonne who One of the pictures accepted, a portrait sometimes attends her; or, again, the of Moncure D. Conway, the friend of Woman with whom she may happen to nerson and the author of the yet un- when out in Britanny or Holland for lished “‘Life of Tom Paine,” was one immer. of the most widely admired in the Salon. results are true to life, and conse- Her other work was a still 1 But the picture that was talked of most and that, but for its size, would hay brought from the Salon wal Many of the o re now pro- if not more r for M vided with a very ingenious machine for It was too ted. Artists onade ng out lar or sandw meat o turni butt either | intues of bread and The slicer will cut and the bread can udio on of at th great £ And they sliced without tering, if desired. its magnificence everywhere, so th he The machine cuts and butters sixty slices was forced to throw open her doors in a minute, and with its aid 8000 sandwiches order to accommodate, on stated days, the have been madeé in two hours. It does people cd to view it. not matter whether the d is stale or Th eeping fresh; the thickness can graded to Mother vthing the operator wishes, and the P SoiMnt quantity of butter to be added with equal 3 b Ll R s e e e e T Miss Clara McChes \\’u)»l\ for Miss McChes not ©f the and .\]‘I\"". ds the butter and cuts Miss McChe: just left Paris f Ne swerved cted Off the slice of bread summer vacation ome (¢ when in 180— of a mother, poorer cl jestic nity of the dm Tobed in its d in figt - ELLA WHEELER WILCOX is thrown back in tired merely perfect enjoyment of a ' :wul. snatched f work. T man to her is beautiful full of and shrouded b; i 1t is pronounced —_— pledondari a by E HERE leeper pathos in the he loses her love I e = SO L GE Sl Che LB O DO following letter than in those I us 2 McSHSsueya e yerdone ually receive from unhappy wives, ty to the mo! because this wife loves her hus- 1€ ' sentimer band with that love which Shakes vas, is the sleeping babe speaks of as the only real to its mother's b T : except the cheek ’ s not love which siters when it head is pillowed ; [ i faded blue. Divinity and love sit upon the Ll Pats et Ut i n it of womanly : Yasy A sorrowing wie me 1 be 1 motherly grace S Iwass Sel She we and. con companion picture, “The S A e Mo AvaYs ed woman inion Child,” is as sweet in conception, if not e o e e et Her husba as strong. The mother, a peasant, l¢ % 3 2 : alone, Was devoted to his hor proud Aggotrong g e ot ety as love, not law_alone, pi8 SEVOISC L0 hia Gowe s abovesher ¥ tend But this wife is : < ti he pretty scene 15 the interfor 3 hen he was sent “on th ttage. The face is more youtk rm which employed him. r husband has of each less dignified. But it Is beautift ! mor passe ref 1 harmonious. which a home, and he wrote of be h ¢ are now at the Academy e has made yery homesic of Des New York, and hundreds view wife, do you think it possible for her After he n them daily. They may not reach this ° 1 forget” and try to take the journeys : coast, where Miss McChesney was born iPterest in her home and family that iS came a revelation to the wife, She f. and raised, and where she has hundreqs ©xPected of every wife and mother? Such g letter from & = woman written ¢ of friends to rejoice In her S e nce has come to me. I should, her husband wh called for « artloveraiwill to content themselves V€Tl arn not to care if he were un- {jons. The husband came forwa kind or careless, but my love will not die, made a clean breast of it. He with two or three representative pictures and I °r so that my life is one long may be seen at Morrls’. One is X ad been desperately lonely, while away, e ook itk Another “A Dutch lcartache. This state of affairs has last- A s ed for more than a year, and I wonder it hs forapeity ot e Ty vou can understand my feclings. It is San Rafael, and is the union of a not only the knowledge that he has com- mitted a sin, but the has preferred is s0 hard to bear. cless to tell this wife to leave band, since she would leave her t with . When a woman loves despite herself, the only thing to do fs to keep on loving and to hope for the nowledge that he women to me which e with that a woma is the daughter of Prn- B fcChesney sney is p r of Oak- of the Hig!t ycars at Hopkln Art Student she went a itice: imate regeneration of the sinner. L Holland i s can accomplish miracles. Onl © an ever loves t same man in Miss McChesney has followed Mill his admirers.” Figures, strong, confident t #nd trug, haye been evolved, full of sent{- thou way during his lifettme. Let her S e what little comfort she can in that ~ ght, and let him take warning fromy OF THE WARDS FOR INFANTS IN THE NURSERY MAIDS’ York, where iccessful canvases. d made trust and the r ney of Cakland. she will spend her Ll the acquaintance of this E iterior hotel, and twice to the the- time. He had not of being a married had no intention of farther. to take rt, as he iclded to of loneli- s me that she 'r over for ay now as to wrechedness. exc for into consideration ht up. They are or self-contro! by n early in life to nd to bear loneli- patience. They ures, for the s. But boys allowed to to this experi- be her old sweet not cognize the ch have been be- Providence, and rea- ar ffering on small price to pay for a ct of his chil- SCHOOL:

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