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THE CHINA MAIL.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1933.
"Modern Girls" Who Love Babies
Mothercraft At London Nursery Centre
There is still a vague idea that in their efforts to compete with men in the professional and business
on
nursery
I happened to look in charming scene in the school of a big London college. The children, all under Ave, were
the
world young women to-day are los-beating time on toy jazz instru.
A tune played on ing interest in what is, perhaps, the ments to greatest career of all-the care of piano. On a small stool stood the their own and other people's child- baby conductor, wielding a baton nearly as long as himself. And the students nurses joined in the drum beating as merrily as any of the children.
-ren.
Older women who feel pessimistic about their daughters' capabilities in this direction should go, as I did, to one of the schools where modern girls learn to look after Watch them babies and toddlers. soothing the few-weeks-old baby to aleep, bending over his pram in the shady garden; watch them ironing out tiny garments, absorbed in their task; watch them romping with the toddlers, encouraging the shy one to join In-and themselves playing as if they loved it.
Look at the charts which each one keeps of the daily life of the baby in her charge-the care and
interest with which they note the tiniest detail and the baby's reac- tion to any change of routine.
Keen and Young.
The nursery experts who train these young girls, teaching them to cook, make clothes, and launder for the babies, as well as how to plan their diets and treat their small allments, will tell you that. And their opinion is borne out by the fact that there are long waiting- lists of would-be children's nurses at the important training colleges,| writes Molly Kyle in the "Daily Mail." So many girls want to "learn baby management that a big London contro is inaugurating a training for day-pupils. One col- lege has every entry booked up to the middle of next year.
The matron of this college de- elares that the young girl of to- day tackles her job of training to be a nursery nurse with more in- telligence than her predecessor of a few years ago. **
She takes a keen interest in the theoretical side of child manage! ment. This is a branch of the train- ing which in many cases is a new addition to the nurse's training, but already a well-known child specialist who cxamines the students before they leave a nur sery training college says that a sound young nurses now have knowledge of food values and the scientific arrangement of children's diets.
A Charming Scene.
And how tremendously enthrall- ed these girls are with the busi- ness of looking after babies at the toddler stagel That is another new development, for in the old days the nurses seemed to be interested chiefly in the tiny in- fants,
Conversation at Breakfast. During the year they spend at the college modern young nurses everything about babies, learn from charting their diets to couraging their breakfast-table conversation.
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Menu Suggestions For To-morrow
Are you giving a tea? If suggestion may be timely. Fruit Salad in Gelatin. Cheesed Wafers
Euch baby has its own night nursery and u student to share it with him. So that each girl can get practical experience of running an average-sized nursery, the older children are divided into 'families') of three or four, sleeping in large, open-air night nursery with a student in charge. But before they even attempt to look after the Date
these girls spendi youngsters several weeks in the kitchens and laundry, and even in doing actual housework. They may never be asked to cook or scrub when they go out to their jobs, but they like to feel that they are learning not only to look after other people's bables, but how to run the "home" of her own" to which every one of them looks forward.
Bringing Up Father.
DO YOU REALLY THINK DADDY
19 IN GOOD. “
ENOUGH HUMOR TO GET SOME CASH FROM
HIM?
Strips
Boutes. Pour into two layer cake
Pineapple Sherbet
Coffee
Salted Nuts Fruit Salad in Gelatin,
i package orange flavored gelatin
mixture.
1-2/3 cups boiling water or fruit juices
1 cup diced pineapple,
1 cup diced pears.
1/3 cup galad dressing.
Pour boiling water over gelatine mixture; stir until dissolved. Cool and allow to thicken some. -Beat until frothy and beat in remaining
pans lined with waxed paper. Bat- ter should be spread quite thin. about 1⁄4 inch. Bake 15 minutes in moderate oven. Cool. Spread one layer with the date filling, top with' other layer and cover with frosting. Cut into strips 1⁄2 inch wide and three inches long.
Date Fiiling.
1⁄2 cup sugar.
2 tablespoons flour.
4 teaspoon salt.
1 cup chopped dates.
cup orange juice.
1 tablespoon butter.
1⁄2 cup nuts,
Mix sugar, flour and salt.
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insets fitting sleeves and narrow
on skirts and bodices. And evidently her patrons agree.
Her bags of patent leather are small and compact, and often there are shoes to match Capes with the true highwayman elfect are popular as ever, and give scope for tiers of leather between folds the material,
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When these young nurses have their own homes and families think the pessimists will have to admit that they were wrong in ingredients. Pour into a mould and dates and juice and cook very chill. Unmould on lettuce and sur-slowly until mixture thickens a lit doubting
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Date Strips.
1⁄2 cup fat.
1 cup sugar.
2 eggs.
2/3 cup milk.
1⁄4 teaspoon salt,
1 teaspoon vanilla.
2 cups flour. ***
2 teaspoons baking powder.
Creum fat and sugar. Add reet of ingredients and beat four min
TRY U with
fish-you'll be delighted with the flavour.
tle. Stir constantly. Add the rest
of the ingredients. Mix well and cool.
Frosting,
3 tablespoons butter.
1 tablespoon cream,
1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla,
teaspoon salt.
1 cup sifted confectioner's sugar Mix ingredients and beat two minutes. Let stand for several minutes and then frost top of cake.
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