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Could you pass an examination in

in the art of housewifery?

• Should wives have to qualify for their job? . Would it mean fewer divorces if they had to take a-

IF

DEGREE

for WIVES

a woman wants to be a nurse, a veterinary surgeon, a teacher, a lawyer, a secretary, or a beauty-culture expert she has to spend a lot of money and take up special training for several years to give her the necessary qualifications to begin in her career.

I

knowledge

she wants to take up a career which demands a home of psychology, economics, cooking, nursing, diete- child welfare, entertaining, tica,

she hygiene, and a bit more need only smile, say "Yes," and the carcer is hers

IIREE hundred and arty thousand women are get-

og married each year; joining the immense occupation of housewifery, which has ten million members in this country.

The divorce statistics show that more than 4,000 of them fall com- pletely in their job. There are no

number Agures to show the marriages which do not end

of

in

divorce but drift on in unhappy entanglement..

Should there not be special train-

ing for marriage?

The

Gennan

THREE years ago the first University for Brides opened in Eisenach, Germany. system has extended to other large tuwns, und unemployed girls are trained in the art of home- making at the expense of the State. In America, many of the univer alties have for years run a course for girls intending to marry. A school for brides was opened in New York last year.

HOR three hours a day, Ave

For

These are the sort of problems you would have to answer in the household ment tests.

1.

manage-

Discuss ways and means in which home management and office management may be alike. Ways in which they are unlike. 2. Why should you not have a perfectly straight pipe as an outlet to a strik or washbasin?

3. What are the main factors in successfully lighting a room?

1. What points must C housewife know in purchasing an electrical device, whether a vacuum cleaner, a washer, or an iron?

5.

List

five

labour-savers

- that are not operated by c--

motor.

3

6. Given a living room on the north side of the house, what colours would you choose wallpaper, Tugs and draperies?

How

marks many would you have got? The questions were in an actual examination of the housewifery course at Columbia University, New York City.

of days a week, three months the-best methods

to-day are

Getting Out of that Groove IT'S EASY TO GET IN-AND

A Woman's

Note-Book.

STAY IN-BUT YOU CAN

ESCAPE HERE ARE

SOME IDEAS.

the

OFTEN think how tired brides must be, on arriv- ing in the Far East, of having it pointed out to them

Why not scrap all idea of

Of the outport dwellers, it might usual sort of dinner for onde and be said that they live in the rut and how easy life is nowadays, have sausages and mashed potatoes. must find methods of decorating and with cars universal, refri- with grilled tomatoes and rashers enlivening it.

of bacon fried crisp?

Finish up To many white women, living in gerators, cinemas, etc., and with toasted cheese-not "cheesy solitary places, a garden has proved "how different it was in our toast."

of the participators solace, a tonte and a drug, and because of the creative nature of day!"

suffers from indigestion this meal is the work. mitigation for loneliness

and separation from children. Young people do not as a rule usually a brilliant success.

And our amusements? We have least it provides something of one's want to hear about what we did tennis, golf, swimming, Bridge, cine- own creation growing up round one. in our day. Life as a matter of mas, and hotel dances. From the fact is a good deal easier for angle of an English county town it everyone now. The general use looks like a whirl of galety, but is it

really? of cars, more clubs, cinemas, and so forth-more of everything The Eternal Sameness. makes for more variety.

Nevertheless it is still only too easy to fall into a groove or rut. The rut may be less deep easier to avoid than it used to be; but it is till there, and once in it, it is difficult to climb out.

Monotony In the East:

If neither

FOR a time perhaps it is, but at ench and all there are the same faces to be seen, the same clothes, the same conversation; and after a while a day-comes that brings with one really wants to go to the club! It the feeling of doubt as to whether When that day comes, or before it comes, make up your mind not lo RO.

To those who have talents- problem of how to find change and music, painting, writing-there is no interests. They have those two es- sentiala within them, but to the mass who have no particular talent, and whose lives are cast in the East, some unending interest such as n garden is very beneficial. Second-Hand Books.

HERE is, of course, reading. Rend not only novels but travel and of us of "our blography. Most day" were brought up not to read novels in the morning; a serious book or the papers, yes,--but novels were

It is a pity that games cannot be kept for what children call "a treat" MIE value of varicly and change instond of being part and parcel of kept for amuseraent. It is not a bad'

is incalculable. The Athenians the groove, because of the necessity precept. knew this when they "sought al-

Books, except in large towns where ways to tell or to learn something of exercise. That is why it seems there are libraries, are a difficulty. not essential to have some other amuse but

large book of the most Why stores

at Home publish and WISE ment and form of exercise, not the Garden?

rendily send on request, monthly Catalogues of second-hand books, ex-library copies, at a much reduced price. trom which a selection may be made.

new;" but something now is always easy to achieve, and perpe- tual damp heat does not lend energy to the pursuit.

The Egg Tyranny.

Wity then are eggs as a rule seen

Gardening is hard work, It is hot and it is dirty, and so often disap- polnilag, but it is always creative work, and as such of unending in- teresi.

Verandah Gardening.

only at the breakfast table? boiled, poached or fried? Why is it also that a Chinese cook has always to be restrained from adding milk those many who feel they con- not struggle with beds, shrubs to buttered-eggs. And why is that need to be clipped or pruned, that an egg fried by him could

planting out seedlings, and so an. usually be used as a kettle holder?

there is always what may be term This seems to the hardly to do

ed verandah gardening. justice to eggs. Try jellied eggst

A tin of any good clear soup: heat half cupful, and in it melt sufficient galating to set lightly the whole quantity. When the gela- tine is melted and the soup cool, add to the rest of the soup and add a tablespoon of sherry,

Have ready na many eggs as you require, light-

It has often struck me as strange that people will quite willingly pay ten or fourteen shillings for a stall ht a theatre at Home or the equi-

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1987.

LAST TWO DAYS

SINCE WE ANNOUNCED OUR

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WE HAVE REGISTERED

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GOOD book, whether a novel or otherwise, is, while one is read- ing it, an armour against the out- side world, and if it be really a book of value it becomes n'friend with whom it

pleasant to renew ac- quaintanceship.

With a little experience and proc- is easy to produce really good tice,. pot plants that are not only a joy to look at but of the greatest value in for change producing that longed and variety in table decoration and in the house generally.

Verandah gardening has the ad

not us merit that rain does ditional ly punched (the yolke should be only stop it; if more strenuous exercise set not hard). Put them into in- is needed; there is always the dog dividual dishes, pour soup over each, who is craving to be taken for a your fancy suggests under each egg, walk. Two afternoons a week spent without like this lend much more enchant- the dish is excellent

ment

games and the club.

but

trimming

A "Change" For Dinner.

Exiles Of The Ulu.

A few books a month make a distraction to which to look forward, and the selecting of suitable ones in catalogues, and from reviews in the papers provides an occupation; above all it helps to keep the mind fuld and prevents it becoming set in a

groove.

All woman dread growing old, and. there is nothing so ageing as being set in a narrow groove, the sides of which tend to grow higher and to obodure all view of the outside world.

OR the outport dweller or those who live even in the New Ter- ritories, the groove or rut is deeper. The East is a pleasant and beauti- There is only one "Club Day," and ful country, but it is a very smali cinemas are rare: there are no large world,

TS there a wife existing who has Is

not awakened to the dread thought: "What can we have for dinner? We had cutiels last night, John docs not like tournedos, he's sick of chicken, and I konthe veal"! Ubraries,

SUMMER HOLIDAYS

IN

JAPAN

AN

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in the art of becoming efficient wives.

INDO-CHINA

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of the course come examinations.

IMAGINE yourself at the end

a year, prospective brides are trained abolished?

mothers and hostesses. At the end

The US. Department of Agri-

has

of a university course for culture, ever since the war, had

to conduct prospective brides. You would have special bureau R research work and be of help to learned how to bring up babies; how home-makers, Throughout America, to serve meals which will make your husband forget his mother's cooking: especially in the country districts and you would have had an insight into smaller towns, the bureau has agents the study of human behaviour to help to help and train thousands of women in housecraft.

Still, there is no compulsion in You would have learned how to training for marriage in any country.

Up to the time of the hobbieskiri manage all household affairs in the daughters stayed at home and watch- easiest and most efficient manner.

ed their mothers cooking and sew-

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example they acquired the technique

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To-day, daughters are proficient in handling business affairs, machinery, various training centres scattered and all matters in. the vocations about Britain are not adequate for which occupy their daily attention, the needs of 350,000 new wives each The household duties set by their year. Soon, perhaps, something will mothers have gone. In any case, the be done about it. Till then, the mothers themselves get out and about success of most marriages will have as much as their daughters.

to rely on the confidence which new-

How much longer will it be before ly-weds have in themselves and the all marriages receive special attention little touch of blindness to faults so that the stric-out-and-hope-for- which love seema to bring!

HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE

PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

The total Expenditure in 1937 on behalf of sick and destituto children is estimated. nt $20,000, against which the Income to date is $5,250 only,

The Society auka for the balance of

Hon. Treasurers:

$19,750

Mr. D. BLACK, OA.,

c/o Perey Smith, Seth & Fleming.

0, Des Voeux Road, Central,

Mr. KWOK CHAN,

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Hongkong,

February 8, 1937.

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