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Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 144, 15 December 1911, Page 9

for ihose who could afford to pay. With I respect to the university education, sho thought thul an nppeal to the reason and intellect that was dominating primary schools had run mad ovei domestic science. Business people had an idea that if they could teach girls .chemistry, cooking, "ph t vi?ics of this> and the temperature of something else,'* they would make good looks of them. They make no such thing. It was> not plastering .science that' was wanted to turn people, into cooks, yome of the most unmtellectuul people she had seen mad« the best cooks- and the best Jiousewive?. Fov heiself, instead of beginning at the top with all this scientific training, she would begin at the bottom. She would have a little houpe-ylike some home such as girls would live in in after life. There would be no fanciful kitchen gas-stoves, fitted up quite unlike anything which the girls have afterwards in the course of their life. She would send the fifth standard to the home to work for three months day after day and she would teachthem how to do work quickly, expedifciously, and methodically. Next year she would send the sixth standard ta Iho same place, beginning ,witn the girls of these standards. In thai way they would reach three-fourths, of the womanhood of New Zealand. (Applause.) Kitty Grayson, who haa just passed away in tho Wigan coalfield in- her ninety-second year, could lay claim, states an English, exchange, to the distinction of having been the last woman who worked below ground in the minea of England, and she was full of interesting memories of the bygone times when women and girls, mothers and children, went down into the bowels of the earth to earn their bread. ' Her long life linked up our own times with a forgotten chapter of English industrial history. The Act of Parliament, known as Lord Ashley's fAct, which prohibited women and girls, as well as boys under' the' age of ten years, from working underground in the mines, received the royal assent on 10th' August, 1842, and came into operation on Ist March, 1843, when "Old Kitty," as she was familiarly called, was a. bright "Lancashire lass" of just over twenty, and she was "drawing" coal down in the colliery at the time. This Act was .not received gladly by all for whose ultimate benefit it -was passed, and there were those who showed their opposition to it by ignoring it ac far. as possible. Kitty, by dressing" in her father's clothes, anil going to work in disguise as a man, was enabled to keep as her work below ground for almost a full twelvemonth aiter the Act came into operation, and thus it was that she . could lay claim to being the la6t woman who worked in the mine. The Government inspector coming round the colliery actually caught Kitty at her work down ! below, and? .she was etopped forthwith. ( While working as a "ccllicr lassie" she l was many times injured, and her gteat experience in colliery life led to her being frequently called in to, assist after mining disasters. She was wont to relate tho sad fact that she had "washed and laid out" more than a hundred persons who had had the misfortune to loae* their Hve6 in colliery explosions. She married a collier, and of thirteen children born to her only two, both well advanced in years, survive her ; but she could' boast a numerous generation of descendants, having some t\yenty % -five grandchildren, sixty or more great-grand-childreitj and even several great-great-grandchildren, for she lived to 6e© children of the fifth generation. Until she was eighty-two she Washed clothes, and although slightly deaf she v did not wear glasses in spite of her age. .- , Spirella corsets are modelled oh living figures, and are made in forty different styles, conforming to the latest fasliion, and a 6tyle for every figure. Spirella corsets can be washed without* removing the stays ; they never rust or break, are 'quite ventilative, and give full freedom to every movement. Practical demonstrations given at Spirella Cd"rfle't Pairlours, Boulcott Chambers. Boulcottetreet. — Advt. Toupee 6 from 30s, a large variety oi switches from 15s, natural hair pads (washable) 5s 6d. Hairdressing .taught gratis to purchasers. . Mrs. Rollcston, 256, Lambton-quay. — Advt. " We'll get a piano when our ship comes home." How often does one hear this same old story. Almost pathetic when you think of it. How " many pleasant hours are being lost just for the want of a piano"? There's no rieed^ to wait. Come to the Wellington Piano Company and talk it over. For £» fewi pounds deposit and an arrangement, toy pay a small sum each month you may nave your choice of a Blunther, Pleyel, Rogers, Challen, or Alli&on, alPsplendid instruments. There's no need to cut into the- money you've saved for "a irainy day." Full details are obtainable from the W.P.C., 124, Lambton-quay. — Advt. . 4i ; . FOR BIG WOMEN. Tne average corset Is not made in any shape that is really adapted to unusually big people; but ,the famous English P. & S. "Zairoid" is made in models to suit every variety of figure. Model Z520 ; for. full" figures, is exceedingly effectivo and satisfactory. It is specially constructed in the Lust and hip' gorea to suit figures of unusually full-development. It is made in very fine and durable coutil, and is daintily "trimmed. It is fitted with two pairs of rubber grip suspenders, and with rustless "Zairoid" supports throughout. Stocks in largo varieties at C. Adams and Co., Corset, Costume, and Millinery Specialist*, 108« and 110. Cuba-street.— Advt: Broadwood, Lipp, Eonish, Steinway. We have on hand "great new shipmentsof theso delicious instruments, the latest models. Full and brilliant tone. We hold the largest stock of pianos in the Dominion, and have instruments to suit all classes and all purses. Deferred payments from 20s per month. The Dresden Piano Company, Ltd., Wellington. M.. J. Brookes, North Island manager.— Advb. _____ « % 5 At 10 a.m. sharp on Saturday nipming 1 next the 6ale will commence of Gddber'a three lucky Xmas cakes. They will each weigh '5 cwt, and contain silver coins to the value of £7. The quality will be up to the firm's reputation, and to meet the convenience of all, one will be sold at each branch, viz., Cuba-street, Lainb-ton-quay, and Courtenay-place. — Advt. Shower toouqueU for weddings &V 6 now a clever arrangement of flowers and ribbons, giving the effect of in shower of flowers, strikingly artistic, original, and beautiful. At Miw Murray's. 56, Willis-street (florist to His Excellenci' Lord Islin_»,on). — Advt.. Long,corsets, particularly when sitting for an extended time, can be, very un; com f oi table, but Warner'." are decidedly comfortable, und. v.-hot is more, J:hey give such support that tho figure holds its own tjood lines. Made to fit comfuruibly, 19 wear w^ll — not to rust, break, or tear. — Advt. For. bronchial coufflu tako Wood»' Great Pepyejoaiut Cmc, It fid,~Ad\:t.