requirements of season, work, age, ami sex. and shall combine economy with 

 due variety of flavour, and that attention to attractive service which contribute 

 substantially to good digestion. 



It is a craft, because a good cook exercises much manual dexterity and 

 uses a degree of skill so familiar as to be unobserved, unless the results of 

 its absence are resented by the stomach and deplored by its owner! 



It is a science, because it has laws of its own. which it is our duty to 

 discover, to learn, and to apply. When our cooks are as well trained as our 

 doctors, the doctors will find their present occupation of ministering to " the 

 sickest beast alive" is gone, and they will be free to devote all their attention 

 to the prevention rather than the cure of disease. "The cook makes, the 

 physician mends." Alas! how often the cook makes sickness, not health! 



It is a ftcri-icc, often despised and left in the hands of the ignorant or the 

 careless. Actually it is an honourable calling, controlling in a large measure 

 the welfare of humanity. 



No other art or science is so little understood, so lightly esteemed, or so 

 casually performed. There is no craft where less progress has been made by 

 the introduction of more intelligent utensils and tools. There is no service 

 less considered, or of which the worth and dignity are less perceived. 



The Women's Institutes must see to it that British Columbia shall be 

 distinguished by their persevering efforts to insure that the study of the 

 preparation of food shall in future be intelligently pursued. When the results 

 of such study are practically applied, the nutrition of its population w-ttl 

 redound to the credit of those in whose hands rests the necessary provision 

 and the right preparation of its daily bread 'the wives, sisters, and daughters 

 of the nation. 



ALICE KAVEXHILL. 



FcUnir of Ilie Kof/iil Riniitui'i/ Inxtititte; Certificated Lecturer 

 Xutiimtil Health Horictii, (Irent Hrilui'i and Ireland. 



Author of " I'ritfticol Ilui/iene for Uxe in tfcliooln " ; 

 " Kleinentx of Siniiturii Lair''; " Sonic Cluinieterixticx 

 anil Jtei/iiireinenta of Childhood'"; " Hoitxeliold Adinin- 

 intnition "; " IlonseJiold Foex," etc. 



Lnte Lecturer on Ifuf/ieiic, Kitn/'x Collcr/e for Women, Vni- 

 rernitji of London. 



