The knowledge of how to cool: a good meal, and the ability to so, is admittedly an invaluable possession, but out here, where cooks are plentiful and the presence of the mistress of the house in the Kitchen, for purposes other than ordering ihe next day's meal ete., is not always welcomed or made easy, the art of cooking is often forgotten by those women who learned before they came to China, or not learned at all by those who have been brought up in the East. Occasionally classes have been given by various organizations, but these were only for very limited numbers and for short period only after which they were over for good, Therefore the school of cooking which is opening next Tuesday should have no lack of candidates to fill its lasses and should meet with great success.
The founder of the school is Mrs.
Lewis, who has fixed up very nice rooms—for her school, with the ce-operation of Messrs, Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Ca. in the latter's building, 106 Szechuen Road, The room is bright and airy and altogether very attractively fixed. [All the cooking will be by electricity, and for the purposes of demonstration Messrs. Larsen & Trock have supplied automatic toasters, hot plate equipment; the General Electric, a walla iron and electric kettle, and Shing Tai of Szechuea Road, a beautiful little combination cooker and a coffee percolator. 'There is an excellent electric stove installed on w' ith the cooking will be carried out and a Zerozone refrigerator for storing the food awaiting cooking.
The Course of Lessons Mrs. Lewis intends to supply all the materials for the classes herself as this will be easier than each bringing her own. Experienced ladies will help in giving the classes and the student of cooking will be shown how to get the best out of such foodstuffs obtainable locally. Soups will be dealt with in the first lessons, and then the students will goon to deal with other courses until the whole menu has been completed, the entire course lessons lasting about three months.
The cooking of various national dishes will be included in the classes to give variety, but to start with only the simpler dishes will be taught, although later Mrs. Lewis has plans for more elaborate meals to be undertaken, which may in. clude lessons on the art of table, A. competition on the three months' lessons, from October to December, will be held rely after Christmas, The hours of the classes will be as follows, 'a week in the from 10 to 11.30 for foreign and Chinese ladies; twice week from 2.30 to 4 p.m, for cooks and amahs; and twice a weels also from 6 to 7.30 p.m. for office girls and those who cannot get away from work to attend the earlier, classes. The charges for the disses will be $15 for the quarter; by the month, $7 and by the lesson, $1, but for further particulars those interested should apply to Mrs, Lewis at the cooking school, Tue Chinese papers say that another consignment of munitions for Gen, Liu Hsiang, former Tupan of Szechuan, has arrived in Shang-This consists of some 10,000 rifles and 200 chests of ammunition, which the local authorities have been ordered by the Nationalist Government to confiscate, Ma. Paul King, the ex-Comm sioner of Chinese Maritime Cus toms, and author of several books on Chinese matters, has been making a brief stay at Guernsey, where he has been arranging his Far Eastern books and curios. He is presenting his valuable collection of Foochow lacquer to the Victoria and Albert Museum, whilst donations of books have been made to several institutions, including the School of Oriental Studies,
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