THE HOME LIFE OF THE FUTURE.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13342, 6 February 1909, Page 7

THE HOME LIFE OF THE FUTURE.

At tho prize-giving in a London school recently -the headmistress gnvo an address, •which, according to.a London paper, "chained the attention not only of hundreds of white-robed; schooL girls, but of every father and mother in the great hall." Shf> contended; that the d'pvelopmont of education since tho end of last oontury had boon such ns to givo girls a false standard of life. So many avenues had been opened up IV-.v a girl's energies that tho most important—tho borne—was treated , "with silence. The things tthat mattered to humanity—tho sunshine, tho love, tbo tenderness—•■were never realised: until they had to bo done without, and so girls were missinp; tho most valuable factor for life's happiness, the domestic interest. In tho ten years in v.-hieh she had) been headmistress there, sho had often, thought of these things, and recently, acting with the support of tho Board of Education, she had dtevotcd nnieh. itimo to making enquiries oinioagst tho girls as to what they hoped to bo after leaving school.

i\ iD<jty-ono pdr.oejit. W tho girls questioned, Miss lianbridgo stated, hoped to entor into tho same occupation, m men. Tiireo to teacb; xtaveo liopedi to cuter :«rtistic. professionsand three- looked lor domestic .interests. One girl only out of 221 said slio wanted to beep house. This we, utterly fako in ideal and dlcstructivo v, tho uto of tho nation. Spceki'ns nitli β-ppreciation of the work of tho womc-n at homo, tho !head4nistress oxpiamed tiio nonrfaasia upon -which domestic economy is ta bo taught in tho school, and uio decided effort that will ll i ? to • , » s P l ir * the girls with a truo knmvledge of tlie.thingp that reaUy cio cchanoo the value of human life

TRE VESmXG -MUJLIKER. Many girls have a gift for millinery wman m.tlia- land) wiho dow nac "hx up" her hate now and then n>. tho first instance. Wivh a crrat many this « done from pretorenco! for «,mc womeu kwwr better than anyone eke exactly what degree of trimming they can put on their hats. Many others, on tho contrary, unpiok and ii rim because the bat needs "freshening vp, and they cannot aJwaye afford a new one. lo such women tho vkiting nulliner comes as a "boon and a bles£ ing, or at looet she wiU when she arrivfts; for though eh© is an accomplished fact in London and America, eLo has not yet found her way to our sfioros.

But there is absolutely no reason why ehe shouldn't. Wo havo the. visiting dressmaker. Why not the visiting M ji. J-norr In America she is olwav.s n,aking quite a good income for herself for. having no riaks or rent or stock .-'I eiie earns is dear profit. Before tnkmg up tie »york she had a year's tborough training w a good mifiincrs wtablishment, and found littlo difficulty in making a connection, for oi-co hnyone had engaged her they her value, and orders came in plentifully. *

is especially m demand in homes wnere there are a number of children tor m a couple of hours she'can-easily trim eight iiats, and she cl»arge* at tl.o rate of 3s or 4e an hour such an arraiigement is decidedly economic]. Another advantage of the home miltJ? T that sh© will tise up - oddments of ribbon and velvet that the ordinary milliner wmiW scorn. So jrell is she appreciated in the place in which she has appeared that in the busy seasons she often makes from £1 to £2 a day Australian girls are always looking out•for some new avenue of usefulness, and this is certainly one which should prove mcßt remunerative to the ~irl with quick..clever fingers and good tjiste, provided always that site takes the trouble to learn fier trad© properly first; for the day of-the incompetent is prwrt, and if a girl wishes to "succood in any business undertaking she must approach it in a businesslike spirit and with a proper equipment