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18. THE following observations from a recent leading article in the Times are so much to the point, that I shall extract them verbatim. After referring to the amount of ignorance existing among the class of mechanics and servants, in reference to the best modes of procuring the common articles of clothing, &c., the editor goes on to say:-" But the great, the fearful shortcoming is in the science of cookery. Of it they may be said to know nothing; and we fear in that class of life, nothing, or next to nothing, is known of it. Of course, the boys have not been taught any thing about it, though why they should not be nobody can explain; and as for the women, only those who go out to service profess to know about it, and in no case is their knowledge available for a poor man's household. If they are engaged in a rich family, they live on the best joints, eat succulent roast and fat boiled meat, and waste on their own, and waste still more on the upstairs