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THE ART OF HOUSEKEEPING.

HOW A CLEVER, MODERN WOMAN VIEWS IT.

THE MERE-MALE OPINION MANGLED!

who make a horrid labour of it, on those who are too dull or lazy to take an interest in anything else, and on the well-toe philosophic women who have things running smoothly because their expenses can be grossly disproportionate!

At this time of year, when nearly The Good Housekeeper Ilhusion. every day brings a new anthology, Has anyundy got a clear idea of I marvel that no industrious collee a good housekeeper t Do we not tor has gathered one from the utter carelessly slap that label on house wives of all kinds-on those who ances of Important People to girls' happen to make a hobby of house schools on speech days, writes keeping regardless of the conveni Edith Shackleton in the Freningence or pleasure of others, ou those Standard. Admittedly there is something ineffably disconcerting about the sight of rows of expect ant young things in white frocks, I know that it makes me feel like howling, and perhaps it affects the Important in some other odd way Anyhow, they do say queer things.

At a Girls' School. The other day it was Dr. Aling, ton's turn to keep up the tradi- tion, and in his speech to the girls of St. Monica's, Kingswood, he Baid several things which might have been marked for that satho- logy. Among them was this state-

ment:

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"It would not distress me to be governed by womon, for they do most of the practical work in this country by running countless homes far better than the various classes of governments."

Now this is the sort of theory which can only be held by blind faith. I do not see how anybody knows whether or not all the womon In the countless homes of this island keep house better than the officials in Whitehall govern the country itself. I do not see how wo will ever know, any more than we shall ever know if Kid Berg fights better than Mr. John Maso- field writes poems or Pavlova dances better than Amy Johnson fics. And, for the matter of that, I do not know how one can say with confidence that women keep -house well as all.

There still exists a curious illusion that housekeeping is chiefly a master of ministering to the male, Daily one reads some reference to the importance of domestic training! for girls on the grounds that such training will be so nice for their liusbanda later on Hardly anybody with the habit of public utterance appears to think that it is nice, not to say necessary, for a girl to know how to make a decent meal or a bed for herself..

The Grumbler.

Generations reared on Bible

The housewife's licence to grumble phrases have held to the definition of the fruitful lady who ross, while is a curious social phenomenou. it was yet night and gave tasks to Possibly Dr. Alington is right about hor maidena. Generations of house- Government officials being worao at keeping women havo felt that their their job than housekeepers are at price, too, must be far above theirs, but at least our administra- rubics simply because they made tors do not grumble. If you ask one- everybody to their immediate neigh of them to dinner ho does not com- bourhood unnecessarily uncomfortplan for three hours about the ablo by insisting that the weekly idleness or scarcity of junior clerks give on winter mornings. wash should be started by hall-past nowadays, the wicked cost, of ink and paper, or the utter unreason- ableness of all his colleagues. But women will do this kind of thing in reference to their houses without

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