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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27, 2 February 1915, Page 9

Mies J. B. Hudson, 21, Hiropi-etreet, is raffling a beautiful art china tea service, valued at £25, in aid of the Poor of Groat Britain, Ireland, and Belgium Relief Fund. The necessary permission has been obtained, and although there are only a limited number of tickets, it is hoped that a satisfactory sum will be realised for the good objeot in view. The tickets are 2s 6d each. and Hull Girk' High School. Subscriptions of £51 Is were acknowledged from Te Aro House, Bristol Piano Co , and Briscoe and Co., also a donation of 5s from Mr. O'Neil. Nurse Macandrew in leaving for her annual holiday received the good wishes of the committee. Generous parcels of books for the Trentham Camp Library have been received at the Evening Post from Mrs. C. Curtis, Madame Cope-Dowsing, and from the Nurses' Home, Wellington Hospital, and a parcel of magazines from Miss Mona Rawson. Mrs. M'Pherson, Mrs. Birdley, Mrs. Parkinson (Christchurch), Mrs. L. M]Kenzie (Masterton), Mr. Mrs. and Miss Weaver (Wangarei), Mr. and Mrs. Wagner (United States), Miss Moody (Sydney), Judge and Mrs. Rawson, and Mrs. M'lhvee (Christchurch), are at the Occidental Hotel. In the report of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations the results of the dancing competitions were omitted. They were as follow :— Highland fling, under 12 years : Miss H. Bollons 1, Miss J. Miller 2, Miss A. Grant 3. Special prize : Little Olive Banfield. Highland fling, over 12 years, under 16 years : Miss J. Jelley 1, Miss E. M'Dermitt 2. Irish' jig, under 12 years : Miss Lily O'Leary 1, Miss A. Grant 2. Irish jig, over 12 years and under 16 years : Miss J. Jelly 1, Miss R. Westwood 2. Sailors' hornpipe, under 12 years : Miss Lily O'Leary 1, Master Colin Shaw 2. Highland fling, adults : Mr. D. Young 1, Mr. J. Simpson 2. Miss Flora Shaw acted as judge. Some feminine cynic has proclaimed for tho benefit of her sex that the best way of getting on with a grumbling husband is to* " feed the brute." And there is little doubt that if the marital squabbles which ruin the happiness of so many homes could be traced back to their source they would in very many cases be found to emanate from the kitchen fireplace (reports the Melbourne Age). Now that the details of the State Ministry's scheme for the development of domestic training are revealed, there is hope of a new era of domestic peace. It does not appear at all likely that the gloomy forebodings of the Women's Political Association will be borne out. When the Premier first announced that the Education Department would extend the teaching of domestic science, members of the association denounced the Ministry. They said it was only aiming at reducing womankind to a mere domestic level. The Minister of Education, perhaps having a more practical mind, maintained that it was quite right that women should learn to cook and keep house. He defied the association, . and the Ministry has persisted. Girls and young women are to receive training ii domestic economy and domestic hygiene. The fact of a young woman being married will not deprive her of tho right to learn how to cook. In fact, the Ministry feels that young women so situated should receive all possible encouragement and assistance. Most ■people will thoroughly agree with thii view. These classes in cookery, if effectively conducted, will undoubtedly minister to the happiness of many young couples. Certainly it will not harm any young woman to learn how to prepare i a meal in such a way that it shall be fit to eat On the other hand, the fact that she possesses this essential equipment for a housewife will vastly increase her eligibility in tho eyes of male "desir- : ables."