CLEVER AT ALL THINGS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1125, 12 May 1911, Page 9

CLEVER AT ALL THINGS.

A good many solutions oft the problem "What to do with our girls" are offered at the biennial exhibition now being held in the Sydney Town Hall, under the auspices of the Girls' Realm Guild (savs an Australian writer). Purple and white being the guild's colours, the hall is effectively decorated • by trees covered with white paper almond blossom, set against a background of purple muslin, and all the members wear purple and white badges. Here it is demonstrated that our girls will make you pottery or enamel buttons, design you a house, dress your hair, manicure you, provide you with brass and leather work, boot polish, or chutney. They will plough «w land and prune trees, mind bees or babies, incubators or separators, bandage your wounds, visit the afflicted, stencil your curtains, and type your letters, but f'perform the old-fashioned household drudgery they apparently decline. Small blamo to them! But when the girls are satisfactorily disposed of there still remains the greater problem of what to do with our households?" Perhaps the present state of affairs is only a phase, and after our girls have had their fil' of analysing soils, rearing dogs, and doing lkhtning sketches, the pendulum will swing back, and the antiquated arts of sweeping and dusting and making Irish I stew will become tho vogue.