Margaret A. Tullidge
Margaret Agnes Tullidge Sturr was an American socialite, editor, columnist and educator.
Early life and education
Tullidge was born in Philadelphia, the daughter of George Bowler Tullidge and Katherine O'Donnell Tullidge. Her father was a doctor. Her brother Edward Kilbourne Tullidge was a military surgeon who was expelled from Mexico in 1923, for his associations with revolutionaries in Tabasco, and her sister Katherine Tullidge Mortimer married politician Charles R. Forbes in 1925, after both were involved in a bribery and corruption scandal.Career
Tullidge taught domestic science in the Philadelphia public schools. During World War I she gave public demonstrations of canning, telling her audiences that "every woman, man and child can join the food army, even if they are not eligible to join the army in the battlefield". She also encouraged her audiences to serve nutritionally balanced meals.Tullidge used the pen-name "Jane Tyler" as editor and columnist at The Philadelphia Inquirer. Her weekly column was called "What to Eat and How to Cook It". She was a member of the Philadelphia Club of Advertising Women. In 1922 she was one of the judges at a fudge contest at the Philadelphia Commercial Museum.