SOMETHING NEW.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 129, 1 June 1907, Page 11

SOMETHING NEW.

A suggestion which the girl who wishes to add to her pocket money mny find practicable has just come to hand. Thero are, it is said, many families where, owing to limitations of income, no nurse is kept for tho children, and, as tho mothers necessarily havo to take no email share in tho housework, the littlo ones oftan do not pet ths proper and regular exorciso Which is so opsontial to their health. To meet this difficulty tho "hourly nurso" has been thought of, and in a neighbouring stats (says a Melbourne paper of r-ecent, date) a numbsr of fairly-educated girls, who do not want to be tied down to elementary teaching or typewriting, aro earning quite comfortable incomes by taking a number of children daily, for nn hour or so, to the parks. The "caller for the child" begins the clay early, especially in tho summer, when it ia host to get tho frerir air before tho heat of tho day sots in. As soon as the first "client's" time is up, the visiting nurse go-ss on to another home, and so on through the day. Many mothers aro glad to get a chance of sending their little ones to and from school under the euro of f-omo girl able to encourage tho young mind and assist in its formation ; and it smius quite possible that ona who is willing to givo up n portion of every day to several of such engagements could earn as much from the united weekly paymento as many a city businaw girl makes, and with all tho advantage derivable, from 11 healthy, open-air life, and more timo to herself.