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DAY BY DAY:
THOSE IGNORANT OF ANY BUBJECT ARE OPEN THE READIEST TO
TRAIN THEM TO BE
COMPETENT WIVES
By F. E. BAILY
Unions. When speaking on thomUM CHRISHTIN hubject at A discussion, held in the White House between repre- sentatives of Industrialists, economic sociologists, etc., Mr. Donk said the question of the shorter working week had passed beyond the limitations of a mere depression measure and thought it | Proctor. should be built permanently into American life. He continued:- Mr. W. G. Lorimer were among the leaders with leopard-skins on-tivo mother should know sho Mr. and Mr. R. E. Lindsell and respect to dashing squadron Of all that a wife and prospec- "I have always favoured a shorter passengers who left by the P. and O. tangled in their saddlery it is the knows nothing. working week and nothing has B. Carthago on Saturday.
Q branch which wins battles. The loss well off middle-class happened to change my mind. In-A lecture on "The Function of the must be a skilled administrator secondary school is in much the The successful married woman girl who attends a high school or Foreign Importers in the Trade of and economist, with a definite game South Ching" id to be delivered by gift for handling people of differ-lives at home and sees something
predicament. True, October Coldy on Tuesday, 18th ing temperaments, and setting a of the mechanism of a household, Assembly Room of the University. healthy and cheerful tone lu the but she has a long day at school, home. She must understand food, with homework in the evening, fabrice, and furnishing, simple and her mother hesitates to add domestic medicine and elementary household training to all this. In nursing, and have a comprehen- such households when sive knowledge of children from leaves school she must find work, 4 girl babyhood onward.
and after her day's work she is not inclined for more domestic undertakings than doing her own sewing and straightening up her
TLORISE ABOUT IT, DECAUSE LEAST nowadays, a married woman's is either goes on to the university, Little as it seems to be realised time. When she leaves school sho HAMPERED BY EXACT KNOWLEDGE-ja highly skilled occupation. She spends a year being "finlahed" in in responsible for what the Army Paris, or obtains some sort of joh calls ihe Q branch, and with all and looks round for a husband.
The idea
now.
October, at 8.30 p.m. in the
All interested are welcome.
中
well-known
sary,
and
own room.
sho
dustry in general seems to favour sonte such workable plan and we are hopeful that we shall be able to show rent progress to the and desired in the near futuro." Now that the Inter-
After being rescued from the har national Labour Office of the bour, into which she had jumped in League of Nations has decided to point Chinese woman was sent to an attempt to commit suicide at West make the shortening of working the Government Civil Hospital suf- hours the subject of a
No Preparation, special She was rescued by an Indian watch- fering from the effects of immersion. acasion of the Governing Body, man.
She needs personality and socini flair, because a home is not a It is difcult to
see why this
hermitage; it makes many con
The only girls who get much question should not be treated as hostess in European society circles, she is rich enough to keep a maid married
and A prominent
tacts with the outside world. If insight into the realities of a
woman's life a world problem: for no very con-Mes. Wellington Koo, the wife of the or malds she should be capable of children of the poor. From force of are the siderable shortening of hours of Chinese. Minister to France, arrived doing any job that falls to any circumstances they have to help work can be carried into effect at Roussel from Saigon. She will leave herself, for an employer must be and sisters when little more than in Hongkong yesterday on the Felix maid at least as well as the maid look after their smaller brothers once without friction, and with on the same boat for Shanghai en able to show a maid how if neces toddlers themselves, and at least out giving rise to dumping unless there.
route to France to join her husband it is established on the very widest
they learn from practical ex- basis.
These things form the adminis-perience at an early age how to Suffering from internal injuries re-life, apart from loving
trative side of a married woman's bath and take care of A baby. They discover also something at the back of the reived as the result of a fall on the cherishing her husband, and at far one can make a shilling go if
ruf of the China Cement Manufac-
about the cost of living, and how suggestion for shorter idoas is, of turing Co., of Fuk Wah Street, an cording to whether she is equal course, that there should be dis-employee was removed to the Kow-of anequal to them her marriage one has to. covered some equitable means of ment. He was carrying a plank of
loon Hospital yesterday for treat will succeed or fail.
A Stupid System. sharing available work. President woud when he slipped and fell a height young women, most of them carn these things were not so.
I know a modest number οι
In the youth of our parents Hoover, I endorsing the
of twenty feet.
ing their living at various jobs, of the wealthy and middle classen Girls ment at a recent conference
all of whem hope to marry. Has remained at home and were train- inches., bankers and industrialists, de interest, is now being provided by the practical preparation for turning time of these girls' lives the house-
A double-billed programme, full of one of them made the slightest ed by their mothers. clared that as a matter of national King's Theatre management, andt dur- heraclf into a competent wife or hold usually included a baby and
Ing the week-end it deservedly drew mother? She has not. policy a shortening of hours was large audiences,
None of The main
film them knows much about house they learned how to look after necessary. Dot only to meet the Grey's "liders of the Purple Sage." Craft.
the screen adaptation of Zane
marketing for a family the poor do now. But in the pre- it, just 24 the children of need of the moment, but maybe to a typleal Western study
keeping Household take up the slack in the future orthodox kind, noteworthy for the ex- motherhood, or wifehood.
sent ern of Bats and small families, cellent from the vast sudden advance in Marguerito Churchill, as well as for off-hand how much per head per neting of George O'rien and I doubt if one of them could say
when the custom is to give girla inbour-saving devices. Coincident the Bne scenic features. The latter week it costs to feed a household with the movement, however, there art of the programme is taken up (a) well, and (b) adequately but selves to bo wives and mothers, by the Fun Toy Company of Chi- without any frills. When one of given the usual school curriculum. has sprung up in labour circles nese jugglers and acrobats, who pre- with rigs and is going a demand that the shorter hours there is never a duit minute. This baby she will often write to the woman altogether. She is partly
sent a really amazing show in which
have
I don't blame the modern young shell be accompanied by a mark-feature alone is worth the admission Guitress of the Women's Page of the victim of a peculiarly stupid DEATH.
ed increase in wage standards. work been seen in the Colony.
charges. Seldom has. Huch clever The Daily Mail for information system. The average girl would ELLEN HARRIET-Widow of John' Here, however, we touch a point
about the care of babies which rather play with a baby than play Gardner McEwen, on July 28th, of economics which presents
she ought to have acquired long cricket, because she has a natural 1942, at 24, Bryanston Street,, siderable difficulty. To endeavour ROSE ROOM REOPENS
ago in preparation for marriage. instinct for babies and no natural Blandford, Dorset, aged 50.
to secure an equitable sharing of
Ignores Technique,
Instinct for cricket. The educa- work is one thing, but to
A conscientious person wouldn't country acems to me quite frankly tional system for girls in this plicate the situation by
buy a dog if he knew as little ridiculous. Since the day of home about dogs as the average girl fe for looking round for
girls in a fairly large £1 husband household has departed, the train- knows about babies and home-ing they used to have in a house- craft generally.
hold should be replaced by their
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1932.
SHORTER HOURS
move-
of
con-
coni. whole-
sale increases in wages is quite another, and the question natural-
of
the
BRILLIANT SPECTACLE AT PENINSULA HOTEL
Over 400 revellers flocked to the
accounts,
At some
send them away to school, they a highly literary education and have no chance of fitting them
I would like to see far more
ly arises whether industry could,Peninsula Hotel on Saturday night in these days, stand the strain of
to attend the gala signalising the I suggest that the average school training. extra overhead.
re-opening of the Rose Room. It young woman of to-day completely! was a brilliant spectacle with the ignores the technique of wife-time devoted to lectures on house- newly-decorated ballroom offering hood because of her abaurd bring-craft and domestic science by London at Its Best,
a perfect background.
ing up... Travellers who drift in for a
An unusually attractive cabaret
visiting experts, and a liaison be The daughter of wealthy par-tween the crack girls' public Not only amongst workers, but brief look-round tell these days. management, including the Aral then acquires a governess. Every and the nearcat infant welfare programme was staged by the (ents starts fe with a nurse, and schools and all other girls' schools in the ranks of economista and how bright London is looking and appearance in Hongkong of Hugo mortal thing is done statesmen as well, there is a grow-feeling, compared with anywhere and Josephine, two polished dancers, Later she goes to school, either real live babies and modern me- for her. centres, where the girls could see ing tendency to believe in the abroad. The visitor to London who gave delightful displays of the to a preparatory or public school.thods of baby care. effeacy of shorter working hours from New York, British or Ameri-tango and waltz. The "Congorilla" Judging from the specimens they
can, who descants lyrically on prizes
competition dance, for which turn out who have come under as ono means of combating the
Learning Her Job. this theme has ceased to be in- Films, was a very popular and are queer places madelled on the mother is about the most import
were given by the Fox my notice, girls' public schoole present worldwide depression.
To become a competent wife and Some little time ago, the Executive for this enthusiasm.
teresting. There are good grounds joyous affair. At least 100 couples lines of boya public schools, ant job a girl can Council of the American Federa-capital, which a year or so-
The old took the floor and gave the judges where the Ideal dangled before ought to be given the chance to. do, and sho an almost impossible task. The the raw young female savage is learn her job. The best sho can tion of Labour declared strongly seemed slipping into its declinc.Prizes were awarded to Miss Lane to get her first eleven cricket or manage at present la to go to the
and Miss Lammert.
hockey colours, and no successful of the year, and aleo!
The event was one of the most taught to spell.
one is movica, watch the latest most ad- mired "cutio" of the screen, and one of the most enjoyable.
In the holidays the public! pick up hints on vamping a hus- schoolgirl naturally desires a good, band.
To say that men don't study to prepare themselves for father- hood is beside the point. A man's job is mostly earning the family living. If the woman he marries fa incompetent as a wife and mather he cannot possibly make up for her failure in the home.
ago
in favour of the shortening of has made a marvellous recovery, working hours, and discussions All hotels report first-class busi between the Government and in-ness, and the property market says dustrialista concentrated attention that things are really looking up. upon proposals to curtail work-best and New York at its pepplest. But even when Parls was at its ing hours by 10% and thus re-
London was always the incom- absorb three million of the eleven parable capital. The volume of million unemployed. Now the life, events and interests there Federation has gone a step fur- overshadows that of any other; ther in demanding that the work-city, and will continue to do so. ing week and working day Ire But for licensing kill-joys, London shortened to "whatever extent would add an external galety to may be necessary to put all the wretched fraternity seems to have solid attractions. This 11,000,000 jobless to work." It been temporarily checked in itsa hopen that, acting on these lines, attempt to reimpose ten o'clock President Hoover will convene a closing on all southern resorts National Economic Conference during the summer. But they are which the Federation has
always there, tapping away at ju#* { geated да the instrument to gaieties and liberties, like the
decide upon the practical aures to be taken,
maca,
its more
of
patient death-watch beetlo In the timbers of ancient buildings. Here It is also of interest to note that as a cruande, but youth seems to Is something for youth to take up Mr. Doak, the Secretary of the be on the one hand too languid Amorican Department of Labour, and on the other too crazy. A who has already shown himself now young crowd, we are told, to be extremely progressive in this called the Prometheans, are out to sphere, now goes yet another stop tions in morala, marriage and the awcop away all present institu- further, by insisting that the rest, and substitute the sort shortening of the hours of work code which passes for life in the should be regarded not as a crisis current amart novel devoted to measure, but as a moans of per- the Bright Young People type. manent adjustment to present These young persons of course. technical tendencies. He is thus have all the freedom they want at taking the same standpoint as their own cocktail parties. They that of the campaign for the might be worth air-room if they shortening of working hours, in nonsense and work for the crowd. would drop their own privileged augurated years ago by the In- But that would be probably too ternational Federation of Trade ano for the cocktail brigade.
"I'm not at all satisfied with the way my face turned
out and I intend to show it to all my friends."
THIS FIVE YEAR PLAN
By Edward Kellyski, Bolshie. This Colony needs a five Year Plan. Properly spooded up we could get through it in thres years, and spend the other two watching it work.
Anyhow, there's no harm in giving it a trial for a few months, before the weather gets cold,
Start in your own home, work- ing from the front. At present you have one front door. By this time next year you should have two front doors. At the end of Alve years you should have five front loors, all in a row.
Five keyholes in the front doors Bounds a bit awkward. Of course, a man will have five keys, but then there's the occasions when you come home late and there are ten koyholes and none of the five keys will at them. The main thing to do in a case like that is to keep cool. Don't Jose your hond.
It may take you five years to get, in. but by that time she'll have' forgotten you, and you can just drop in as a cheual vieltor.
It will be understood that these are minor details. Intended mere- (Continued on Page 7.)