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Could you pass an examination in the art of housewifery? Should wives have to qualify for their job? Would it mean fewer divorces if they had to take a-

DEGREE

for WIVES

IF

[F 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.

IF she wants to take up a

career which demands a of psychology, home knowledge economi, cooking, nursing, dicte- tics, entectuining. child welfare, ske hygiene, and a bit more need only smile, say "Yes," and the career is hers.

THRE

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fifty.

THREE hundred and

thousand women are get- ing married each year; Joining the Immense occupation of housewifery, which has ten million members in this country.

The divorce statisties show that more than 4,000 of them fall eon.- pletely in their job. There are no number uf figures to show the

not end in marriages which do divorce but drift on in unhappy entanglement:

Should there not be special train- ing for marriage?

German

THREE years ago the first THREE

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

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

manage-

1. Discuss ways and meaRE 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 sink or washbasin?

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

4. What points must housewife know in purchasing an electrical device, whether a vacuum cleaner, a washer, or an tron?

5. List five labour-savers, that are sot operated by a

motor.

1.

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

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

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, March 4, 1987."

Getting Out of that Groove LAST TWO DAYS

A Woman's

Note-Book.

OFTEN think how tired

SINCE WE ANNOUNCED OUR

IT'S EASY TO GET IN-AND ECONOMY SALE

STAY IN-BUT YOU CAN

ESCAPE - HERE ARE

SOME

IDEAS.

o!

brides must be, on arriv ing in the Far East, of

Why not scrap all idea of the Of the outpect dwellers, it might having it pointed out to them

usual sort of dinner for once 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 gerators, cinemas, etc., and with toasted cheese-not "cheesy "how different it was in our toast."

If neither

of the participators day!"

suffers from indigestion this meal is Young people do not as a rule usually a brilliant success.

And our amusements? We have want to hear about what we did tennis, golf, swimming, Bridge, cine- in our day. Life as a matter of mos, and hotel dances. From the fact is a good deal casier for angle of an English county town it looks like a whirl of gaiety, but is it everyone now, The general use

really? of cars, more clubs, cinertas, and so forth-more of everything- The Eternal Samenes8. 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.

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a time perhaps it is, but at

FOR each and all there are the same

To many white women, living in solitary places, a garden has proved a solace, a tonic and a drug, and because of the creative nature the work, a mitigation for loneliness and separation from children. At least it provides something of one's own creation growing up round one.

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

faces to be seen, the same clothes, the same conyersalion; and after a while a day comes that brings with one it wants to go to the slub! THERE is, of course, reading. Rend not only novels but travel and When that day comes, or before

of us blography. Most

of "our it comes, make up your mind not to day were brought up not to read

T it the feeling of doubt as to whether

go.

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of exercise. That is why it seems there are libraries, are a difficulty,

Book

It is a pity that games cannot be novels in the morning; a serious book THE

HHE value of variety and change kept for what children call "o treat" or the papers, yes, but novels were

Is incalculable.

instead of being part and parcel of kept for amusement. It is not a bud The Athenians the groove, because of the necessity precant knew this when they "sought

Books, except in large towns where ways to tell or to learn something

but most of the large new:" but something new is по

at Home publish and always casy to achieve, and perpe- tual damp hent does not lend energy

send on request, monthly of second-hand books, to the pursuit.

ex-library caples, at a much reduced price, from which a selection may be, made.

The Egg Tyranny.

WHY then are eggs as a rule seen

essential to have some other amuse- Why

ment and form of exercise.

not the Garden?.

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

terest.

Verandah Gardening.

wir

It has often struck me as strange that-people will quite willingly pay ten or fourteen shillings for a stali

at

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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 to buttered cEES. And why la it that an egg fried by hir euled usually be used as a kettle holder?

This seems to me hardly to do justice to cgg^, Try jelled eggs!

With a little experience and prac- A GOOD book, whether a novel or otherwise, is, while one is read- A tin of any good clear soup; tice, it is easy to produce really good in it, on armour against the out- heat half cupful, and in it melt pot plants that are not only joy to sumielent galatine to set lightly the look at but of the greatest value in whole quantity.

the gel producing that longed for change decoration and tine is melled and the soup cool, ndd and un

variety in table it to the rest of the soup add in the house

tablespoon

of sherry. Have ready Verandali as many eggs as you require, light- ditional merit that rain does by poached (the yolks 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 your fancy suggests under ench egg, walk, Two afternoons a week spent the dish is excellent without like this lend much more enchant- trimmings.

ment to games and the club. Exiles Of The Uh.

To those many who feel they cabs not struggle with beds, shrubs that need to be clipped or pruned, planting out seedlings, and so on, A Monthly Selection. there is always what may be term- ed verandah gardening.

valent here, who would not dream of buying a book.

but

When

A "Change". For Dinner. Is there a wife existing who has not awakened 10 the dread thought: "What can we have for dinner? We had cutlets last night, "John" does not like tournedos, he's sick of chicken, and I loathe veal"

gardening has

the ad

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with side world, and if it be renily a book of value it becomes a friend whom it is pleasant tu renew, no- quaintanceship.

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 fluid and prevents it becoming set in a

groove.

All woman dread grawing old, and there is nothing so ageing as being set in a narrow groove, the sides of which tend to grow higher and to

of all view

the outside OR the outport dweller or those obscure who live even in the New Ter- world.

The East is a pleasant and beauti- ritories, the groove or rut is deeper. There is only one "Club Day," and ful country, but it is very small cinemas are rare:- there are no-large--world.

A. N. libraries.

SUMMER HOLIDAYS

IN

JAPAN

CHINA PHILIPPINES

arc

In the art of becoming efficient wives,

INDO-CHINA

JAVA-BALI

IMAGINE yourself at the end

OR three hours a day, live

For

days a week, three months the-best methods of to-day

a year, prospective brides are trained abolished?

mothers and hostesses. At the end

of the course come examinations.

The U.S. Department of Agri-

culture,

Phas

university course for

ever since the war, prospective brides. You would have

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

you steer clear of friction in the housecraft.

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

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

In

ed their mothers cooking and sew-

ing, nursing and cleaning. By

example they acquired the technique

of running home.

THE domestic science courses

THE in high schools and the

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 360,000 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.

mothers themselves get out and about success of most

as much as their daughters,

the

marrlagos will have

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 strike-out-and-hope-for- which love seems to bring!

HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE

PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

The total Expenditure in 1937 on behalf of sick and destitute children is estimated at $23,000, against which the income to date is $5,250 only.

The Society asks for the balance of

Hon. Treasurers:

$19,750

Mr. D. BLACK, CA,

c/o Percy Smith, Seth & Fleming,

0, Des Voeux Road, Central..

M. KWOK CHAN,

c/o Banque de L'Indo-Chine,

Hongkong.

February 6, 1937.

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