ABSTRACT

Cookery in Board Schools.-The Bristol School Board, following the example of some other Boards, have resolved to introduce cookery as a subject of instruction in their girls' schools. Mr. Buckmaster delivered the inaugural lecture in Hamilton's Rooms, Park street, Bristol, on Monday. The Mttyor of Bristol presided, and there was a large attendance, chiefly of ladies interested in the welfare of the poor. In the evening Mr. Buck-

92 Events 01 the Month. master repeated the lecture to an audience of workingmen's wives.