TRAINING FOR THE COLONIES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 120, 13 February 1908, Page 3

TRAINING FOR THE COLONIES.

;<h^ r PJeasaavi.fact:.-' (Mys'-'thev ■ ween, ). ; that : in. various parts of - EnHarid •.Softools,; public or private, are springing up, the ;niam .object of. which,is to enable ipeople to .live , in;-.country .districts.;. One' ot the latest of these,-.undertakings, to 'be : , to/our notice, is-, the Country -',and .Colonial .Training. School ..for ■ Ladies,Ai--lcsey;., House,, Arlesey,, near Hitchin,.-Herts; 1 his ■ new • school .is; being • opened. at .the presont;:time by;; Miss >Turner;; F.R.H.S., lato, superintendent of .'the Glynde School of hardening. ; Miss. Turner-has already -to iniiMr' it °of .patrons Lady:! Frances Balfour, thoßon. Mrs. Baillio of Dochfour, lie; flon.; Mrs. Evelyn Cccil; ..arid -/ • other ladies.- The-first, object of the" school is .to supply a .thorough i trainirig .jn home 'iand farm , management for . ladies intending .-to emigrate, ■or for those who, remaining "at homo, wish- to- manago.;thoir own' property or Nsmall holdings.. Tho coiirso will include instruction, in housework, plain cooking;'and bread',making, : preserving arid bottling fruit arid ; vegetables, pickling arid 'curing, bacon, etc.;' caro; of pigs, -boos, 'and poultry, and simple i gardening.; A course 'of lectures >on first nid and domestic; hygiene will be given onco during '• each;; conrso. :Riding, - driving ■'and 'Stable management, dairv.. work,; laundry work, and simple' carpcntry'wilKbe.numbered among tho special subjects outside .tho regular Curriculum. , , ' .Miss Turner, jt will be seen, . has had particularly in viev; the needs of gii;]s jviio wish to be taught thoso subjects which used to be: acquired m a good old-fashioned farm-house,-but -are-now, not so.' easy to learnt For- girls with those ' wants'■ there lias, ■ slip thinks, been', .littlo .provision made, outside those institutions, which "are -chiefly intended to .train 1 young' emigrants of the domestic servant class and help class.