NO WOMAN LIKE HER

Evening Star, Issue 25993, 7 January 1947, Page 4

NO WOMAN LIKE HER

AMERICAN PRAISES N.Z. WIFE QUALITIES -OF THRIFT AND VERSATILITY ' A. c ' * NEW YORK, January 5. The best way for any man to beat th® high cost of living is not to take an extra part-tinie job, but to make his wife learn the homely arts, declares the New York artist, Mr William de J. IRutherfoofd, in a letter to the ‘ Herald* Tribune.’ He instances the thrift and versatility of his wife, a New Zealander, formerly -Miss. June Grant, -of Napier, whom lie married at Auckland while in New Zealand during the war; T . “ Most otf... my comrades told:' me £ was making a big mistake, because they said that New Zealand; girls were not half as eute as American girls,” he said, “ Those of my old ‘ buddies’ who visited me recently admit they were pretty stupid in their judgments.” Mr Rutherfoord says that, because of his wife’s skill as a cook and her inventiveness in evolving new dishes from materials which are usually ■''thrown away, they hardly need a garbage bin. She also sews, knits,-tate, and crochets, and ean make practically anything she ; wants for the apartment or for herself to wear. But for her and her homely arts, he would have died of starvation and exposure long ago. . . “ The present generation of American , women is a hopeless- deficit 'to our society, but if, beginning now; every girl in this country were to be taught tha homely arts instead of being sent to a : business school, the next generation of American families _ would stand a good chance for economic security and happiness,” he declared.