Identifier: stnicholasserial301dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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one of them offered a place thatshe could honestly attempt to fill. She sighedaudibly as she noted column after column fromthose who wanted cooks. Some of these ap-peals she read. Now cooking was one thing which Marjoriecould do, and do well. I dont know just whatis the connection between literature and cook-ery, and I suppose there are a number of goodcooks who cannot write; but I have yet to findthe woman writer who is not a supremely good igo3.) MARJORIE S SCHOOL OF FICTION. 441 cook. Perhaps the same artistic impulse andimagination is required for both. Men writerscan cook, too, when they try; only they areapt to be mussy. Marjorie was not mussy, and she had bothskill and experience. As a girl it had been her ther would consent reluctantly to her daughters going out to service, while Tom, who wasalready eager to be doing for himself, and Nel-lie, with all the faith in life and its romancethat sixteen brings—these two, she knew, wouldunite in a vigorous protest and vow they would
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BUT ONE MORN delight to assist with the meals, and her mo-ther, a New England woman, had taught herdaughter the science of the household. Later,at school, it was always Marjorie who had beenchosen to invent and prepare those little dinnersand suppers in which her light-hearted fellowshad found exceeding joy. Of course there would be a storm of objec-tions. Even the hard-working, practical mo- Vol. XXX.—56-57. give up school and sell papers on the streetbefore their Marjie should go into anybodyskitchen. And yet, why not ? Better to cookin a well-ordered kitchen than to govern ina disordered nursery. Better to wrestle withroast and pastry, which she understood, thanwith those torturing figures which she couldnever hope to conquer. Almost surreptitiouslyshe copied down a number of addresses, and 442 MARJORIE S SCHOOL OF FICTION. set out next morning half guiltily. Timeenough to face the storm when she had reallymade her decision. She would have a lookover the ground, at least. She put

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